Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone Smartphones are great. Theyâre also⦠a lot. The idea of a more balanced device, one that gives you all of the most important and useful features of a smartphone but keeps you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an enticing one for a long time. Nailing that balance, […]
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If youâre anything like the internet these last few days, youâd create some lovely things â stylized family portraits, a thousand different looks for the Distracted Boyfriend meme â and some truly, deeply, unfathomably horrifying ones. […]
How Roomba got stuck
How Roomba got stuck In the robot vacuum world, thereâs Roomba and thereâs everybody else. iRobotâs autonomous cleaner may not have been the very first of its kind, but it was the first one most people knew about, and for many years it was clearly the best one you could buy. But now, more than […]
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice. I don’t think I need to really introduce Splice, actually — I just need to play this clip: If you exist on planet Earth, you know that as the […]
Trump’s confusing crusade against Big Tech
Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech Trump’s confusing crusade against Big Tech President Trump wanted to ban TikTok. Now he wants to save TikTok. There might even be a plan to save TikTok, though right now it feels more like a âconcepts of a planâ situation. Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to press hard on […]
Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars
Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars The Nintendo Switch 2 is nigh. Nigh-ish, anyway. When it does launch later this year, it might start another revolution in portable gaming, as millions of people are able to play from their couch, their bed, the train, and anywhere else. That was also true of […]
Why Trump can’t be trusted with Congress’ new anti-deepfake bill
Why Trump can't be trusted with Congress' new anti-deepfake bill Why Trump can’t be trusted with Congress’ new anti-deepfake bill On today’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking to Verge policy editor Adi Robertson about the Take It Down Act, which is part of a long line of bills that would make it illegal to distribute […]
China has some big ideas about smartphones
China has some big ideas about smartphones The US smartphone market is pretty boring. There are iPhones, there are Galaxies, Google will happily give you a Pixel if you remember it exists, and thatâs about it. But as soon as you get out and see the world a little, you realize: there are a lot […]
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news Today, I’m talking with Almar Latour, who is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent company Dow Jones, which you can think of as a huge research and data provider for companies of all sizes. Dow […]
Apple’s chip bumps, big and small
Apple's chip bumps, big and small Apple’s chip bumps, big and small Apple updated a couple of its most-loved products this week, both in relatively minor ways. The iPad and iPad Air both got new processors and not much else, the MacBook Air got a new processor and a new color, and the Mac Studio […]