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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iOS14 public beta is released, Google’s Pixel 3A is discontinued, and Samsung's event is coming soon
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Dan Seifert discuss Apple's iOS14 public beta, the future of Google's phones, and what to expect at Samsung's next hardware event.
Stories discussed this week:
- This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunami
- Tracing the link between your phone and the next pandemic
- Doctors are better at treating COVID-19 patients now than they were in March
- After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay
- Facebook and Instagram will remind people to wear face masks
- White YouTube creators struggle to address past use of racist characters
- Everything that the big social networks banned this week, ranked
- Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Starbucks, Target, Unilever, Verizon: all the companies pulling ads from Facebook
- Facebook auditors call out Mark Zuckerberg for ‘vexing and heartbreaking decisions’
- iOS 14’s public beta is rolling out today
- iOS and iPadOS 14 public beta preview: something for everybody
- Reddit says it’s fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents
- LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard
- Apple promises to support Thunderbolt on its new ARM Macs
- Intel’s Thunderbolt 4 standard looks to raise the bar for USB-C devices
- Google’s Pixel 3A is discontinued, but these retailers are still selling it
- Samsung reportedly won’t include chargers with some phones starting next year
- Samsung needs a splashy product for its splashy product launch
- Mysterious new Samsung wearable revealed in FCC filings
- Logitech is already giving up on its Alexa-powered Harmony remote control
- Google’s upcoming Nest speaker revealed in regulatory filing
- BMW is going all-in on in-car microtransactions
- A weakened version of the EARN IT Act advances out of committee
- Fading Light: the story of Magic Leap’s lost mixed reality magnum opus
- I built my own camera with a Raspberry Pi 4
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