The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz kick off the new year with a preview of what we're excited to see at CES 2024 next week, but not before a brief discussion on copyright, the open web, and the first movements of a battle between The New York Times and OpenAI.
Further reading:

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

Here’s how major media companies are handling OpenAI.

Read the lawsuit!

For the second year in a row, Sony won’t have new TVs at CES

CES 2024: Dell’s XPS laptop lineup is about to look very different

Samsung’s new AI-enabled smart fridge can design recipes for you

Jony Ive imagined the Vision Pro giving you Zoom eyes and sunglasses

Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's iPad event, the evolution of the streaming business, updates on the Wisconsin Foxconn site, and much more tech news.


Apple iPad event: all the news from Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ reveal 

The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event 


Here's how the latest iPad Pro compares to the new iPad Air (and prior models)  

Apple adds a 13-inch iPad Air to the mix

The iPad Air is now heavier than the iPad Pro 

Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever 

Apple announces its M4 chip

Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro M4: bigger trackpad and a function row 


Hands-on with the new iPad Pro: yeah, it's really thin 

You can upgrade the iPad Pro’s processor now, too 

The new Apple Pencil Pro is harder to lose and better to draw with

Apple puts more ‘Pro’ in Final Cut and Logic Pro for the iPad 

Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack

The new iPads are ditching physical SIM cards

Goodbye to Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio, the best iPad Pro accessory

People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial

A Disney, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is on the way

The streaming business will look “very different” in the next couple of years.

Max nears 100 million subscribers globally.

Max price hike incoming.

Disney’s streaming business gets closer to becoming profitable

ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app

Sony is now in play to buy Paramount.

The Office is getting a Peacock spinoff about local newspapers

The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy 

Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio

Epic v. Apple judge seems displeased over style restrictions on iOS buttons

The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy 

President Joe Biden to announce AI data center at failed Foxconn site in Wisconsin

TikTok sues the US government over ban

The Google Pixel 8A is a midrange phone that might go the distance 

Google’s Pixel Tablet relaunch at $399 makes its magnetic dock optional 


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The beginning and end of the iPad

Today on the flagship podcast of enterprise certificate hacks: 
03:22 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Riley Testut, founder of AltStore and developer of the game emulator app Delta, about how his app finally made it into Apple’s App Store. 

The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store

Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe

Delta is the game emulator your iPhone has been missing


46:17 - David walks us through his experimentation with the many software and hardware solutions for “AI voice notes.” 
Cleft Notes is an AI voice notes app that really works

1:02:02 -  David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about the Rabbit R1. 
Rabbit R1 review: nothing to see here

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Delta's 10-year journey to the top of the App Store

We’re kicking off our “Five Senses of Gaming” miniseries today, starting with “touch.” The Verge’s William Poor explores a controller crisis in the Nintendo 64 speedrunning community, and follows one speedrunner’s quest to recreate a mythical controller he lost.

Further reading/viewing:

How Sticks Are Sabotaging Speedrunners (Stick Crisis History)

abney317 on Twitch

The Quest to Beat abney317

Mariokart64.com

More on Beck Abney’s controller problems


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A speedrunner’s quest to (re)build the perfect N64 controller

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss this week's tech and gadget news.
Further reading:

Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget 


The Rabbit R1’s first software update addresses its dismal battery life - The Verge 

Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along

TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement 

Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal

Peloton announces new round of layoffs as CEO quits

Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 

Tesla layoffs hit Supercharger team just as it’s poised to take over EV charging

LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 

Pixel 8A leak reveals $499 starting price

Beats announces Solo 4 headphones and $79.99 Solo Buds

Beats Solo 4 review: playing both sides 

Walmart is about to launch a 4K Chromecast that’s also a smart speaker 

SwitchBot S10 review: with plumbing hookups, this robovac and mop is actually hands-free

iOS 17.5 beta lets you keep Find My on during iPhone repairs

Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased


Instagram’s updated algorithm prioritizes original content instead of rip-offs 

Meta is “exploring” algorithm changes on Threads.


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Rabbit, Humane, and the iPad

Today on the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware: 

The Verge’s David Pierce and Allison Johnson debate whether the emergence of standalone AI gadgets like the Humane Pin and the Rabbit R1 are better off as apps or should exist as its own hardware. 


Humane AI Pin review: not even close 


The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t 

A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget

Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out!

The future of AI gadgets is just phones


The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make the future look cool  


The Verge’s Alex Heath joins the show to discuss Meta’s big move into AI with its multimodal AI smart glasses and a new AI model called Llama 3. 

Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg on winning the AI race 

Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets

Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI


Nilay Patel answers a question from The Vergecast Hotline about Microsoft and antitrust.

Microsoft splits Teams from Office as antitrust pressure ramps up

Microsoft and OpenAI deal may face anti-trust investigations in the EU. 


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