Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories.
Right before the final deadline from the US government, Dish Network says they have finally launched their 5G service in America. The Vergecast dedicates some time on the show this week to analyze Dish’s press release and talk about the obstacles The Verge must go through to test out this service.
Later in the show, the topic shifts to Google’s LaMDA model that was accused of being sentient by a Google engineer. The crew pushes back on the idea of a chatbot being sentient and discusses the way people humanize these models.
The last third of the show starts with news of Apple’s partnership with Major League Soccer to stream every match from early 2023 through 2032 in the Apple TV app, which David calls “the most thorough complete sports streaming spot that we’ve ever had in the US.”
There are a whole lot more stories in between all of that, so listen here or in your preferred podcast player for the full discussion.
Stories mentioned on this show:
- Watch the trailer for The Verge’s first Netflix show, The Future Of
- Dish Network’s Project Genesis 5G service is live in more cities
- Dish says Project Genesis 5G is available in 100 cities, so we tried to sign up
- T-Mobile can now use three-channel aggregation for even faster 5G
- The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life – The Washington Post
- Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
- Apple will stream every Major League Soccer match for 10 years starting in 2023
- Apple reportedly wants in on NFL Sunday Ticket
- Apple TV Plus’ Friday Night Baseball debut wasn’t the homerun fans expected
- Amazon and WNBA strike multi-year streaming deal
- Don’t wait to install the June Windows update — it fixes a major security bug
- Ford recalls nearly 49,000 Mustang Mach-Es over battery safety issues
- Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early
- Internet Explorer, star of Windows, dies at 26
- Microsoft starts automatically redirecting Internet Explorer users to Edge
- Sonos Voice Control review: a speedy, private, music-focused assistant
- Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo, interruptions, and acoustics
- WhatsApp now lets you transfer your chat history from Android to iPhone
Source: The Verge