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Apple claims an ex-employee stole trade secrets for Oppo, Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law, and Google tested QR code verification for text messages

Apple is going after another one of its previous employees for allegedly sharing trade secrets with a new employer. Apple's lawsuit listed Chen Shi, a former employee who worked on the Apple Watch team, along with Oppo, as defendants, claiming they "conspired to steal Apple’s tra ... Show More

7m 32s

Aug 22

Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder

AI Mode will add agentic event and appointment finders soon, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7m 6s

Aug 22

Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands' products, Ecosia offered $0 for control of Chrome, and Tesla investigated over inaccurate crash reports

AppleInsider spotted the latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that the actual phone still does not exist. The publication noticed that promotional images for T1 all show different smartphones that appear to be tweaked in a photo editor to look gold. While the website sh ... Show More

7m 40s

Jan 2025

Fri. 01/03 – Turns Out, Siri WAS Listening To You!

Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks like for good this time. The nuclear winter in the VC space, CES is coming for us all, and a Weekend Longreads Suggestion.Links:App ... Show More

17m 52s

Jun 2020

Apple announces macOS Big Sur, new silicon chips, and iOS 14

Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn welcome back Verge alum and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to discuss the big announcements from Apple's developer conference this week. Verge news editor Chaim Gartenberg joins in the second half to discuss the Apple updates you may have m ... Show More

1h 36m

Sep 2024

Apple Makes AI the Star as It Unveils iPhone 16

Apple showed off artificial intelligence text editing and photo recognition tools, along with an improved Siri voice assistant for its iPhone 16. Will it be enough to spur sales of its flagship product? Brad Olson, a WSJ tech news editor, joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss that and ... Show More

12m 30s

Aug 2024

Apple's Intelligence beta and more AI chaos

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Allison Johnson, and Victoria Song discuss Apple iOS 18.1 beta. upcoming Pixel 9 rumors, Olympics coverage, AI deepfake regulation, and more. Further reading: The best way to watch the Olympics is on TikTok Apple releases iOS 18.1 developer beta with the ... Show More

1h 34m

Feb 2025

TNB Tech Minute: Apple Unveils iPhone 16e With Its First In-House Chip

Plus, electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy. And Alphabet tells U.K. regulator that its pre-installs on Android devices are good for competition. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m 36s

May 2024

Fri. 05/10 – Apple Apologizes For The “Crush” Ad

Well that was fast. Apple apologized for the “Crush” Ad, saying they missed the mark on that one. Microsoft is launching a mobile game app store. Elevenlabs is getting into the music generating game. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Links:Apple apologizes for iPad ... Show More

16m 17s

Aug 2024

Google lost its first antitrust case, so what happens next?

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news. Further reading: Judge rules that G ... Show More

1h 23m

May 9

Why Apple is trying to save Google

Where will Meta, Apple, and Google be three years from now? It's starting to look like they might all be very different. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler start the show with Eddy Cue's testimony in the Google search trial, in which Cue argued that AI is taking over — ... Show More

1h 45m

May 2016

Daily: LinkedIn may have been breached. Malicious apps, a new Skimmer, and honor among thieves.

In today's podcast we discuss a breaking story about what's potentially a very large breach at LinkedIn. Banks' interactions with SWIFT (not SWIFT itself, necessarily) concern observers. Malware and scareware appear in the Play Store. China interrogates Apple, Cisco, and Microsof ... Show More

14m 37s

Aug 2024

Google: Breaking Laws and Killing Chromecasts

A lot happened this week! First, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about NVIDIA scraping YouTube videos before jumping into a new iOS feature that lets you get rid of ads on websites. Then, it's all about Google. David goes over the new Google TV and Nest thermostat before talking ... Show More

1h 31m

X quickly removed Grok’s new ‘Aurora’ im...