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The Vergecast

Streaming goes up, Zoom comes down

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz break down the chaotic and increasingly more expensive state of streaming video. Are we just recreating cable TV? And afterwards, the crew explores the wild world enterprise software. Further reading: Disney Plus and Hulu are about to get even more expensive The Emmy Awards are officially delayed because of the writers and actors strikes Disney is ‘actively exploring’ ways to crack down on password sharing What does Bob Iger think about selling Disney to Apple? Paramount says it has a plan to weather the Hollywood strikes. Barbie earns $1 billion at the box office worldwide Verizon will soon raise prices on certain unlimited plans — yes, again Slack’s redesign: new DM and Activity sections and more features in the messaging app  Verizon is shutting down BlueJeans, which it bought for $400 million Zoom says its new AI tools aren’t stealing ownership of your content The LK-99 ‘superconductor’ went viral — here’s what the experts think Cadillac’s Escalade IQ is the next GM vehicle to lack Apple CarPlay MrBeast’s burger company is suing him for $100 million You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon Sign up for Installer, our weekly guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff on the internet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:32.3

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0:50.1

Hello and welcome to The Verchast, the flagship podcast of Integrating Apps into 5G,

0:55.6

a plan that totally worked and now we live in a utopia of robot surgery and video conferencing.

1:02.1

David, what's utopia like?

1:03.1

We're the flagship podcast of all of that.

1:06.1

It's a lot to be the flagship podcast.

1:10.1

It's a big concept.

1:12.1

There's not a lot of competition in the space and that's business, baby.

1:16.1

You got to find your niche.

1:20.1

I'm your friend Neil, David Pierce is here.

1:23.1

Hi, I too am integrated into 5G.

1:25.1

Alex Kranz is here.

1:27.1

Alex is in San Francisco.

1:28.1

Yeah, I'm in San Francisco.

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