The Vergecast

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 457: Google faces antitrust lawsuit over Google Play Store fees / Nintendo announced OLED Switch / 'EV Day' event held for Stellantis


The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Adi Robertson discuss the new antitrust lawsuit Google faces from 36 states, the new hardware Nintendo announced this week, and what happened at Stellantis' ‘EV Day’.

Further reading:

  • Who needs COVID-19 boosters?
  • Moderna starts human trials of an mRNA-based flu shot
  • Full approval could make the difference for the US COVID-19 vaccine campaign
  • Exposure notification apps could be more effective if they’re better at assessing risk
  • Google faces new antitrust lawsuit over Google Play Store fees
  • Google feared Samsung Galaxy Store and tried to quash it, lawsuit alleges
  • Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps 
  • Donald Trump files sweeping, nonsensical lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google
  • Twitter has lost legal immunity for users’ posts in India, government argue
  • Nintendo’s OLED Switch: all of the news about the console upgrade
  • Don’t count out the Nintendo Switch Pro
  • A bigger, better Switch screen is exactly what I wanted
  • Stellantis, parent company of Dodge and Jeep, had an ‘EV Day’ and it was extremely weird
  • Verizon has its own version of spatial audio and it’s already pushing it on phones
  • AT&T joins T-Mobile in switching all Android phones to Google’s Messages app for RCS
  • Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
  • iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 preview: a first look at Apple’s latest software
  • Maine passes the strongest state facial recognition ban yet
  • Welcome to Simulation City, the virtual world where Waymo tests its autonomous vehicles

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 July 9, 2021  1h12m