The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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episode 408: SpaceX launches humans to space / Facebook's ongoing moderation controversy / Sonos Arc's convincing surround sound
Stories from this episode:
- Blaming protesters for COVID-19 spread ignores the bigger threats to health
- 5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running
- Telehealth wasn’t designed for non-English speakers
- The pandemic has made it harder to buy a new laptop
- Byte flight
- The United States will cut ties with the World Health Organization, says President Trump
- FCC extends deadline for ISPs to quit charging customers who use their own equipment
- K-pop stans overwhelm app after Dallas police ask for videos of protesters
- SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight
- A rocket launch can’t unite us until the space world acknowledges our divisions
- Watch NASA astronauts fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon using touchscreens
- SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docks with the space station
- What the future of the space station looks like after SpaceX’s historic launch
- Meet the cute stuffed dinosaur that hitched a ride on SpaceX’s historic launch
- SpaceX is launching its latest batch of internet satellites, including one with a visor
- Trump’s Twitter order violates the First Amendment, new lawsuit claims
- Facebook won’t take any action on Trump’s post about shootings in Minnesota
- Facebook employees walk out in protest of Donald Trump’s posts
- Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence
- In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg expressed ‘disgust’ with Trump’s posts
- Mark Zuckerberg defends hands-off Trump policy to employees after walkout
- Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees
- Ban them all
- What other social networks can learn from Snapchat’s rebuke of Trump
- Huawei P40 Pro review: there’s a catch
- HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will
- The Sonos Arc puts convincing surround sound in a single soundbar
- Here’s our best look yet at Google’s new Android TV streaming device
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