Today, Sonos announced a new line of speakers — the Era 100 and the Era 300 — with the latter finally taking on this format that has been a hit-or-miss experience for music lovers, supporting Amazon Music and Apple Music’s spatial audio. Though spatial format Dolby Atmos has been supported on the Sonos Arc soundbar, the Era 300 signals a music-first approach ... Show More
Aug 22
Google's AI-stuffed Pixel 10 event
It’s Pixel week. Jake, Vee, and Allison are chatting about all things Google. First, there’s the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold, which get a mix of hardware upgrades (dust-proofing on a foldable!) and downgrades (a worse camera on the Pixel 10?) and a ton of new AI ... Show More
1h 39m
Aug 19
Do we really want Rosie the Robot?
This week on The Vergecast, the co-founder and former CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle, joins The Verge’s smart home reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, to discuss what the ideal home robot is. Are we close to creating a Rosie the Robot — an all-in-one humanoid robot that can take care ... Show More
1h 37m
Aug 15
Vibe coding through the GPT-5 mess
GPT-5 is here, and it’s not going so well. This week on The Vergecast, Jake, Vee, and Hayden discuss the bumpy launch of OpenAI’s latest model and why GPT-5 isn’t as big of a leap as GPT-4. Then, everyone shares their vibe coding projects and the bumpy journey to making anything ... Show More
1h 21m
Dec 2020
Hey, Mr. DJ: Super Hi-Fi’s AI Applies Smarts to Sound - Ep. 132
Brendon Cassidy, CTO and chief scientist at Super Hi-Fi, uses AI to give everyone the experience of a radio station tailored to their unique tastes. Super Hi-Fi, an AI startup and member of the NVIDIA Inception program, develops technology that produces smooth transitions, inters ... Show More
36m 3s
May 2017
Salt-N-Pepa Talk 30th Anniversary on the Charts & 'Demand' for New Music; Plus DJ Khaled's First Hot 100 No. 1
On the latest Pop Shop Podcast, we have an interview with Sandra "Pepa" Denton and DJ Spinderella of … Salt-N-Pepa! We caught up with two-thirds of the iconic hip-hop trio to reflect on the 30th anniversary of their debut on Billboard's charts, their current run on the multi-act ... Show More
30m 4s
Aug 2018
Season 3, Episode 3: The Sonos IPO
Ben and David are (almost) live on the scene covering the plucky Southern California “camera company”… uh wait, wrong episode… we mean *speaker* company’s IPO! Continuing the long Acquired tradition of analyzing companies at the intersection of music, tech and business, we discus ... Show More
1h 39m