Twitter rebrands as X, and Samsung's Galaxy Flip 5 and Fold 5 event

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss Twitter being rebranded as X. Allison Johnson joins the show to discuss everything announced at Samsung’s Galaxy Flip 5 and Fold 5 Unpacked event. Also: we read your emails! Further reading: Twitter is being rebranded as X Elon Musk just changed Twitter’s logo again — sort of Can Elon Musk really use that X logo for Twitter? For Elon Musk, X equals everything Twitter Blue’s former lead talks about Elon Musk, X, and sleeping on the floor Twitter Japan will be called simply, Japan Threads is rolling out its Following feed You can’t just leave Threads in the Following feed The Galaxy Z Fold 5 is last year’s phone with a new hinge The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 gets a big little screen upgrade Samsung goes OLED all the way with the Galaxy Tab S9 tablets The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series is all about the bezels DJI Air 3 review: old ideas, new package OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all Seven major automakers are teaming up on a North American EV charging network T-Mobile says its ultrafast 5G capable of up to 3.3Gbps is rolling out now Boost Infinite’s $25 unlimited wireless plan is now on Amazon Prime T-Mobile’s charging a $5 fee for in-store bill payments My first MP3 player had everything I needed Looking back at the original Chromecast, which just turned 10 years old Japan’s indie game scene is growing up How to build a better search engine than Google 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Richcast, flagship podcast of rebranding your company from one
0:15.2	name to nothing.
0:17.4	It's great.
0:18.4	That's what you want when you have a company is to pick one of the most common letters
0:22.4	for naming things for teenage boys.
0:25.2	It's great.
0:26.2	I'm your friend Neal.
0:27.2	I've been in a hotel room in San Francisco for this episode of The Richcast.
0:29.5	I'm going to try not to look at my laptop because I think it will look bad on the YouTube
0:32.8	video.
0:33.8	Alex France is here.
0:34.8	Hey Alex.
0:35.8	I'm your friend who's really upset that their college nickname was stolen by a social
0:39.4	media company.
0:40.5	It's fine.
0:41.5	That was your college nickname?
0:42.5	Yeah.
0:43.5	It was like, it was a dumb joke when I had to rush sororities.
0:46.6	You get tired of introducing yourself so I'd be like, just call me X. It's faster.
0:51.0	And it was a terrible joke, but it worked.
0:53.3	And then everybody called me X and then people thought I really wanted it like and it wasn't
0:56.9	a joke.
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