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Vergecast: Microsoft Build 2020, Elon Musk’s factory play, and Joe Rogan moves to Spotify
It’s Friday, which means there’s a new episode of The Vergecast to fill you in on all of the news from this week. Join Nilay, Dieter, and a rotation of other editors for everything that you need to know. The three topics covered this week are: During the first part…
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Joe Rogan helped create a podcast culture on YouTube, and now he’s leaving it
Joe Rogan is largely moving on from YouTube, a site that helped transform his podcast into a viral video-making factory, earning him nearly 10 million subscribers in the process. It’s the latest sign that creators who found success on YouTube see other platforms as the next step, but it doesn’t…
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The latest Disney Plus show turns classic animated scenes into relaxing ASMR
Disney released a surprise new series on its Disney Plus streaming service today: Zenimation, an ASMR-style series of short videos that take clips from classic animated Disney movies and replace the usual dialogue, songs, and score with the realistic ambient noise that they would have in real life. The first…
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Wall-E gave us a future where we chose a corporation over people
The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and yesterday. The movie: Wall-E (2008) The future: In Wall-E, waste is what does us in.…
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Radio head: is Thom Yorke’s Sonos speaker show an Apple Beats 1 killer?
If you have a Sonos speaker system at home – or even a standalone smart speaker like the Sonos One – you may be familiar with Sonos Radio, which combines a mixture of radio stations around the world as well as music curated by the audio company itself. For a…
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Covid-19 may actually help improve remote working conditions
In an effort to better understand how individuals are responding to novel work-from-home conditions in the wake of Covid-19, management platform Pipefy surveyed employees from medium- and large-sized businesses, with some interesting results. Chief among them is the fact that, despite enjoying additional family time and greater flexibility, more than…
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