Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Zoom's privacy concerns, Apple buys Dark Sky, and Sprint is dead
Nilay, Dieter, and Paul talk to Tom Warren about Zoom's privacy and security concerns.
The crew also looks back at the history of Sprint after it finally merged with T-Mobile.
Paul's weekly segment "If I were a rich man" updates the keyboard-in-the-front club.
The show ends with some chat about Apple buying the weather app Dark Sky and allowing in-app rentals on their mobile devices.
Stories discussed in this episode:
- After walkouts, Amazon pledges temperature checks and masks in all warehouses
- Jeff Bezos’ space company is pressuring employees to launch a tourist rocket during the pandemic
- Zoom is leaking some user information because of an issue with how the app groups contacts
- Zoom faces a privacy and security backlash as it surges in ...
- Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and ...
- Zoom isn't actually end-to-end encrypted
- Zoom quickly fixes 'malware-like' macOS installer with new ...
- Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions
- T-Mobile completes merger with Sprint, John Legere steps down as CEO
- Sprint is dead. Long live Sprint
- What’s next for Sprint customers now that the T-Mobile merger has gone through?
- Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules
- Apple now lets some video streaming apps bypass the App Store cut
- Amazon Prime Video now allows in-app rentals and purchases on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV
- Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
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