The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition Meta's quest to own your face
There’s a lot of gadget news this week! But we begin the show in an unprecedented way: with a bit of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, America’s favorite podcast within a podcast. Nilay pops on the show to discuss what happened to Jimmy Kimmel, why the FCC’s assault on speech is so dangerous, and why a couple of broadcast TV companies matter so much to the story. After that, Jake Kastrenakes and Richard Lawler join to talk about all of Meta’s new smart glasses, including the company’s first pair with a built-in display. Finally, in the lightning round, we talk about Reddit’s new AI deal with Google, Nvidia’s new chip deal with Intel, and Samsung’s terrible plan to put ads on your fridge.
Further reading:
- Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air
- Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke
- Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment
- Charlie Kirk’s death got complicated by “extremely online” culture
- The right wing is creating a society of snitches
- Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: the best smart glasses I’ve ever tried
- Oakley Meta Vanguard hands-on: what athletes actually want
- Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life
- Conversation focus is the first new feature on deck.
- I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to try Meta’s impressive new Ray-Ban Display glasses
- Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers | The Verge
- Snap OS 2.0 is a small step towards AR glasses you might actually wear
- Android’s next flagship processor is the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’
- Nothing wants you to talk to your earbuds’ charging case
- Nvidia invests $5 billion into Intel to jointly develop PC and data center chips
- The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal
- U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China
- Samsung brings ads to US refrigerators
- Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google: users in exchange for content
- YouTube is inching closer to becoming a shopping channel
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