Threads' big moment, and Sony's big controller

The Vergecast

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Tech News, Technology, News

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Threads' new web app, Sony's Playstation handheld, NFL 4K streaming, AI music copyright, and a whole lot more. Further reading: Elon Musk says (yet again) that X will stop letting you block users X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 X fixed the ‘bug’ that broke images attached to tweets from before 2014 X tests removing headlines from links to news articles Elon Musk says news organizations can get a share of X’s advertising revenue, too. Threads on the web is here NFL Sunday Ticket has arrived on the Google TV homescreen Amazon is bringing a whole lot of AI to Thursday Night Football this season Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches later this year for $199.99 Sony’s PlayStation wireless earbuds will cost a whopping $199.99 Sony’s PlayStation division is acquiring headphone maker Audeze This batarang houses Qualcomm’s next big bet on gaming Somebody already unboxed the Quest 3 Microsoft kills Kinect again Corsair’s first standing desk is designed for gaming, streaming, and more Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel Netflix is going to let DVD subscribers keep unreturned discs for free White Noise Podcasters Are Costing Spotify $38 Million a Year - Bloomberg Sonic Spectrum: a journey into noise white, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple & violet Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0	Hello and welcome to Richest, the flagship podcast of sub-ten micron build tolerances.
0:55.0	If you can't outdo a Coke can, get out of this company.
0:58.0	I'll explain what that means in a little bit.
1:01.0	Hi, I'm Neil, I'm your friend, David Pierce is here.
1:03.0	Hi, did you ever wonder what your own build tolerances are?
1:06.0	You could go down that rabbit hole and it could cause you a lot of existential dread if you let it.
1:11.0	Human beings notoriously have absolute shit build tolerances.
1:15.0	We are poorly designed and horribly built.
1:18.0	And honestly, we could do a whole hour on the evidence that we are alone in this world.
1:25.0	Just based on how our knees work, you know, it's like fun.
1:27.0	But on the flip side, we were very good at making things with very tight build tolerances.
1:31.0	Or are we? Richard Lawler is here to answer that question.
1:34.0	Hey, Richard, how are you?
1:35.0	Hey, the only thing I want to talk about is how the human ACL just proves any theory of intelligent to time.
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