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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Android 11 beta / PS5 reveal / Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft ban facial recognition tech for police
Stories discussed this week:
- Tinder CEO Elie Seidman on finding love during the pandemic
- It’s hard to figure out how often people without symptoms spread COVID-19
- Inside Nextdoor’s ‘Karen problem’
- Nextdoor tells community leads to allow Black Lives Matter discussions after exposé
- Contact tracing programs have to work with local communities to be successful
- Apple launches $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
- Android 11 beta: all the announcements
- Android 11: conversations, bubbles, and making sense of complexity
- Five new features Android 11 borrows from the iPhone
- Android 11 may be the best texting platform if you use multiple chat apps
- Apple’s virtual WWDC keynote will take place on June 22nd at 1PM ET
- Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report
- Apple pulls podcast apps in China after government pressure
- The new Sonos app and S2 update are available now
- IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
- Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for the next year
- Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law
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