On this episode of The Vergecast, senior producer Will Poor explores the AI-tinged worlds of Dries Depoorter. Depoorter has built all manner of quirky and provocative installations and online experiments. There’s a clock that tells you how much of your life you’ve already lived; a phone charger that only works when your eyes are closed; a mobile chat app tha ... Show More
Aug 24
We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories
Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larchuk leads David, Nilay, and The Verge’s Sean Hollister through a game of memory and history and a surprising am ... Show More
25m 40s
Mar 2021
The AI-Enabled Cameras Surveilling Towns Across America
Wanna hear a story that involves automatic license plate reader technology, AI-powered cameras that detect the movements of cars across the United States, cops, and well, Burger King? Well today on the show we have Motherboard reporter of all-things-surveillance, Joseph Cox, on t ... Show More
25m 56s
Apr 2023
INSANE AI Phone Scams, Elon's Everything App, Airpods or iPods, Replacing Your Friends on Group Chat
<p>INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/throughtheweb.podcast/<br/>WATCH THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/eZjxlq0Doso<br/><br/>Follow us on Twitter to engage with our work: https://twitter.com/throughtheweb<br/><br/>00:00 - Intro <br/>00:15 Our week<br/>12:23 - AI Phonecall Scams <br/ ... Show More
42m 35s
Sep 2023
Be My AI: When innovation and privacy clash
An AI-powered tool helped blind people make sense of the world - then ran into privacy concerns. Be My AI user, the BBC's Sean Dilley, in Washington DC, tells us what happened next. A rare interview with the boss of Spotfiy, Daniel Ek, who tells us there is a place for AI in musi ... Show More
27m 15s
Oct 2025
Week in Tech: To Catch a Cheater
Should facial recognition be available to everybody? This week, Oz shows off his new swag from the company of the moment, Colossal Biosciences, and tells us about his visit to the labs’ responsible for Woolly Mice and Dire Wolves. Then, Oz and Karah unpack how facial recognition ... Show More
32m 3s
Jun 2025
TDS Time Machine | Artificial Intelligence
*Generate a description for a podcast from The Daily Show about AI, including the following segments: Jon Stewart on the false promises of AI, Trevor Noah on whether AI is self aware, Wanda Sykes on AI Hitler, Kal Penn on the release of ChatGPT-4, John Leguizamo on the warning si ... Show More
43m 57s
Feb 2023
Real Humans Chat About Chatbots
The unstoppable march of artificial intelligence carries on. In mere weeks, AI has oozed into nearly everything we interact with on the internet, from conversations, to journalism, to how we look stuff up online. It's even got Google scrambling to reclaim its spot on the search t ... Show More
37m 8s