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.
HBO's no good very bad rebrand
Names are hard — but they don't have to be this hard. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes start the show with some personal news, before digging into the monumentally silly thinking behind Warner Bros. Discovery re-re-naming its streaming service HBO Max. After that, and some more streaming news, we turn our attention to the gadget news of the week, including the long-awaited release of CarPlay Ultra and the latest announcements from the Android team at Google. Finally, in the lightning round, it's time for Brendan Carr is a Dummy, some debate on the future of Airbnb, and a brief party speaker update. Because the mystery continues.
Further reading:
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Max was an all-time bad rebrand
How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
ESPN’s standalone streaming app launches this fall for $30 a month
Fox One streaming service will arrive just in time for football season
Netflix’s ad tier is growing really fast — and that means more ads
Netflix is bringing back Star Search as a live show
YouTube will stream an opening week NFL game for free
Peacock’s NBA coverage will add an overlay with live shot stats
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Apple’s CarPlay Ultra is finally here, if you have a new Aston Martin
Apple’s fancy new CarPlay will only work wirelessly
Android 16 Material Three Expressive UI coming in beta this month
Google’s splashy new Android UI is coming in beta this month.
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Here's How NBCU Is Integrating Brand Sponsors for SNL50
- FCC threatens EchoStar licenses for spectrum that SpaceX wants to use
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