Verge Extras
Special events, discussions, interviews, and one-off shows from The Verge and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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December 15, 2023 • 24 mins
Verge producer Will Poor attempts to fix up his family’s Mac Classic. The journey takes him to the finer points of soldering, message board flame wars, and a 2,000 year old Greek thought experiment.
Links:
The Vintage Computer Federation
The “40th Anniversary Macintosh”
Follow Jason's tech adventures: @compu_85
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November 26, 2019 • 17 mins
Congress is in the process of passing a non-partisan bill to increase support for enforcement against illegal pirate radio operations: Fines can now go as high as $2 million, and the FCC will fund “enforcement sweeps” in major radio markets. Does this target well-intentioned community radio, designed to speak to immigrant communities?
Episode three of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Bijan Stephen.
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November 22, 2019 • 20 mins
How the Hmong diaspora uses the world's most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful.
Episode two of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Mia Sato.
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November 19, 2019 • 36 mins
When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead.
Episode 1 of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Chris Harland-Dunaway.
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February 13, 2019 • 28 mins
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Machine Of Loving Grace" is the fifth and final installment of the Better Worlds audio adaptations that will appear in Verge Extras.
Katherine Cross' story features an AI designed to moderate video games that goes rouge.
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February 6, 2019 • 24 mins
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Skin City" is part four of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.
In Kelly Robson's story, a street performer gets into trouble after falling for a radical privacy devotee.
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January 30, 2019 • 24 mins
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "The Burn" is part three of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.
In Peter Tieryas' story, “The Burn,” people around the world fall victim to a mysterious illness called the Burn. Eventually, AR researchers begin...
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January 23, 2019 • 27 mins
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Monsters Come Howling In Their Season" is part two of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.
In Cadwell Turnbull’s story, “Monsters Come Howling In Their Season,” a journalist travels to St. Thomas in the afterma...
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January 16, 2019 • 27 mins
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Online Reunion" is part one of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.
In “Online Reunion,” author Leigh Alexander imagines a world in which a young journalist is struggling with a compulsive “time sickness,” so s...
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December 18, 2018 • 1 min
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways.
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September 28, 2018 • 2 mins
Last month, Dril published Dril Official “Mr. Ten Years” Anniversary Collection, a 420-page collection of his best tweets of the last decade. And it works because during that same stretch of time, Dril has defined so much of what it’s meant to be online. Please enjoy a reading of his best work, presented by The Verge’s creative director and resident englishman James Bareham.
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December 9, 2017 • 61 mins
Jaron Lanier is one of virtual reality’s most recognizable figures. He’s credited with popularizing the term itself, and he co-founded VPL, a short-lived but groundbreaking company that built some of the first commercial VR headsets. Since then, Lanier has been better known for his writing on digital ownership and internet ecosystems, with the books You Are Not A Gadget and Who Owns the Future? But his most recent work revisits the...
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August 17, 2017 • 22 mins
About a month ago my colleague Dan Seifert admitted on Twitter to, basically, not understanding me as a person:
"i will never understand the fascination with watching other people play video games"
Instead of lashing out in his mentions, I sat on that information until the other day when I finally connected with Dan over Skype to hash it all out. Now you can enjoy our conversation in podcast form, thanks to the Verge Extras feed,...
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June 20, 2017 • 3 mins
theverge.com/2017/6/13/15794060/vox-media-bees-swarm-manhattan-offices
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Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space.
In 2014 and 2015, Cristoforetti spent 199 days aboard the International Space Station, where she performed a variety of scientific experiments. She studied generations of fruit flies to chart gene changes in relation to disease; she looked...
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March 23, 2017 • 70 mins
Last year in Los Angeles, a mysterious cult began recruiting people through emails, phone calls, and one-on-one consultations. For nine months individuals were drawn into the group’s web of intrigue, discovering that a young woman from Ohio had been taken in and brainwashed. In September, the cult finally opened its doors, and people had the chance to walk its halls and try to find the young woman inside — or die trying.
The only ...
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March 21, 2017 • 15 mins
Mark and Scott Kelly are the only twins that have ever traveled to space — and their experience will be invaluable if we want to get to Mars one day.
The brothers are taking part in what NASA calls the Twins Study — a genetic experiment to see how our bodies change in zero gravity in the long term. That’s important to understand before we put humans on a spaceship and send them on a round trip to the Red Planet.
Between 2015 and 2...
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February 1, 2017 • 35 mins
On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana as it returned from a 16-day mission in space. The cause of the accident was a piece of foam that had fallen off the Shuttle’s external fuel tank during launch. The foam struck the left wing of the shuttle, causing serious damage that ultimately led the vehicle to explode when it reentered Earth’s atmosphere. It was the second major failure for t...
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January 30, 2017 • 5 mins
Now that President Trump has resurrected the hotly contested Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, here's what you need to know about their pasts — and their futures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPWjg-bXTY
Host: Rachel Becker
Director: Miriam Nielsen & Kimberly Mas
Audio: Andrew Marino
Special thanks to:
Mark A. Barteau
Director, Energy Institute
DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research;
Professor , Chemical ...
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January 27, 2017 • 2 mins
Here’s how we know how many people were in the crowd for Donald Trump’s inauguration — and why you won’t hear the number on TV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=boOWZXZXINU
Host: Russel Brandom
Director: Kimberly Mas
Camera: Tom Connors
Graphics: William Joel
Audio: Andrew Marino
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