SpaceX launches humans to space / Facebook's ongoing moderation controversy / Sonos Arc's convincing surround sound

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Stories from this episode: Blaming protesters for COVID-19 spread ignores the bigger threats to health 5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running Telehealth wasn’t designed for non-English speakers The pandemic has made it harder to buy a new laptop Byte flight The United States will cut ties with the World Health Organization, says President Trump FCC extends deadline for ISPs to quit charging customers who use their own equipment K-pop stans overwhelm app after Dallas police ask for videos of protesters SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight A rocket launch can’t unite us until the space world acknowledges our divisions Watch NASA astronauts fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon using touchscreens SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docks with the space station What the future of the space station looks like after SpaceX’s historic launch Meet the cute stuffed dinosaur that hitched a ride on SpaceX’s historic launch SpaceX is launching its latest batch of internet satellites, including one with a visor Trump’s Twitter order violates the First Amendment, new lawsuit claims Facebook won’t take any action on Trump’s post about shootings in Minnesota Facebook employees walk out in protest of Donald Trump’s posts Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg expressed ‘disgust’ with Trump’s posts Mark Zuckerberg defends hands-off Trump policy to employees after walkout Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees Ban them all What other social networks can learn from Snapchat’s rebuke of Trump Huawei P40 Pro review: there’s a catch HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will The Sonos Arc puts convincing surround sound in a single soundbar Here’s our best look yet at Google’s new Android TV streaming device Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Verge cast Lauren Grosch joins us talk with the big SpaceX launch we talked to Casey Newton
0:04.4	But Facebook's always controversial moderation decisions and then we actually talk about some gadgets
0:08.8	Sonos arc hvmax data caps Huawei P40 talking up on the Verge cast now. I'm good in Lichfield
0:15.2	I'm the editor in chief of wired and I'm Lauren good. I'm a senior writer at wired. We're making a new show
0:21.0	Have a nice future. I'm more have a nice future
0:25.5	question mark. It's a show that is
0:28.3	honest about how unsettling the future can be. We're going to be bringing on the people
0:33.4	shaping this future. We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face about the challenges
0:38.0	they're creating and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do. So make sure you
0:44.2	follow have a nice future wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Leo Laporte founder and host at
0:51.9	Twitt when it comes to covering all things tech there's a lot to report every week on our flagship
0:56.9	podcast. Twitt stands for this week in tech. We assemble the top journalists in the field experts
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1:22.3	Hello and welcome to the first cast of flagship podcast of the box media podcast
1:28.1	situation. That's how I feel with everything. It's not not not a moment for timely jokes, but I'm
1:33.2	Neil I'm your friend Dieter bonus here also your friend. We got a big show this week. Lauren
1:37.8	Groucher is going to join us to talk about the historic SpaceX crew dragon launch. Let's go
1:42.0	on space generally a lot space very busy. Casey Newton is going to join us to talk about Facebook
1:47.2	moderation. What do you usually talk to us about? But obviously with the protests with Trump's
1:52.2	various posts there's a lot of activity there. There was some leaked audio from our Zuckerberg
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