Verge Extras

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Special events, discussions, interviews, and one-off shows from The Verge and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Recent Episodes
  • How to future-proof a 30-year-old computer
    Dec 14, 2023 – 24:10
  • Pirate Radio » The PIRATE Act
    Nov 26, 2019 – 17:08
  • Pirate Radio » Dial Up!
    Nov 22, 2019 – 20:12
  • Pirate Radio » Outside the wire
    Nov 19, 2019 – 36:52
  • Machine Of Loving Grace | Better Worlds Pt. 5
    Feb 13, 2019 – 28:05
  • Skin City | Better Worlds Pt. 4
    Feb 6, 2019 – 24:41
  • The Burn | Better Worlds Pt. 3
    Jan 30, 2019 – 24:07
  • Monsters Come Howling in Their Season | Better Worlds Pt. 2
    Jan 23, 2019 – 27:10
  • Online Reunion | Better Worlds Pt. 1
    Jan 16, 2019 – 27:14
  • Introducing Better Worlds
    Dec 17, 2018 – 01:26
  • @dril tweets: a reading of his best work
    Sep 27, 2018 – 02:30
  • VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet
    Dec 8, 2017 – 01:01:52
  • Why watch people play video games?
    Aug 17, 2017 – 22:18
  • What to do when 20,000 bees unexpectedly swarm your Manhattan skyscraper
    Jun 20, 2017 – 03:57
  • Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on tweeting from space and brewing the first zero-G espresso
    May 13, 2017 – 19:29
  • How to build your own personal Westworld
    Mar 22, 2017 – 01:10:33
  • Astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly on NASA’s twin experiment and the future of space travel
    Mar 21, 2017 – 15:47
  • The Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: a conversation with my parents who worked the accident
    Feb 1, 2017 – 35:25
  • Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines controversy explained
    Jan 30, 2017 – 05:08
  • The delicate science of counting crowds
    Jan 26, 2017 – 02:40
  • Judges, not Trump, will decide Obama’s environmental legacy
    Jan 20, 2017 – 04:11
  • Listening to machines to understand why they break
    Jan 11, 2017 – 03:42
  • A highly specific Tinder problem
    Dec 27, 2016 – 18:24
  • Emotional (Tech) Support
    Oct 14, 2016 – 41:13
  • 1,000 Words: bringing pictures of the internet to your ears
    Aug 13, 2016 – 35:42
  • Paul Miller's gadget corner 06/03/16
    Jun 3, 2016 – 03:06
  • Extended interview with Prof. Randal Picker
    Apr 20, 2016 – 18:12
  • Extended interview with T-Pain
    Jan 22, 2016 – 33:39
  • Chris Ziegler at Code/Mobile
    Oct 9, 2015 – 16:24
  • John Gaeta can see the future of VR
    Aug 13, 2015 – 27:14
  • ReBoot is coming back
    Jun 16, 2015 – 22:19
  • Chris Gethard has a talk show
    May 27, 2015 – 01:03:03
  • Pitch Perfect's Deke Sharon on the rise of a cappella
    May 15, 2015 – 01:00:40
  • Fast Dungeons & Furious Dragons
    Apr 1, 2015 – 47:36
  • The Verge at SXSW 2015
    Mar 17, 2015 – 43:03
  • A conversation with Brian K. Vaughan
    Mar 17, 2015 – 55:46
  • The problems with Interstellar
    Mar 17, 2015 – 38:41
  • The Verge at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival
    Feb 1, 2015 – 49:23
Recent Reviews
  • CPSMD
    Contact info
    What is your email? I have insight.
  • CombativeThrill
    All lesbian sci-fi all the time
    Dude who picked the stories? Like maybe one or two but it’s like 80% lesbian love stories.....umm ok. The one I thought was the boringest turned out to be my favorite about the AI on the hurricane island. The dancer one was ok too could have done without her forlornness though. Overall 3/5 would have been 4 if not for the recurring lesbian theme, I mean what about other lgbt people, or like any dudes?
  • tanuki_guy08
    Right on the nose.
    When I think of a better world, I think of a place with more diversity, more freedom of expression, more hope. If you’ve ever watched Black Mirror and though, “Gee, I wish there was a happy version of this,” you’ll enjoy Better Worlds. Some of the vignettes have some semi-dark elements to them, but never get so dark that they will leave you feeling crushed... at least if you listen until the very end. Perfect to listen to on a train ride to work. I always walk into the office with a little extra pep in my step after listening to this podcast.
  • J explorer
    Misnomer
    Misnomer. I was listening to Better Worlds with the hopes that it would embody some symbolic gesture towards positive science fiction...instead I get less than 5 minutes in Skin City and have to listen to yet another diatribe following terms to justify delusional states of experience...“cisgender”? Seriously? I like sci-fi as an escape from the nauseating madness of the massively confused and entitled, delusional extremes of those that lack personal accountability. The Verge appears to be trying to hard to pander...however given actual approval numbers of the current political climate I’m happy to hope they will continue to fade into obscurity as people educate themselves and seek distance from the plague that is leftist media and thought.
  • ITGuy8301
    Love Better Worlds
    So far the Better Worlds Stories have been amazing.
  • Cuplication
    Not that fun.
    Very slow, not very entertaining, and I find it hard to sympathize with the hosts.
  • Dlfranco83
    Embrace it!
    I did enjoy it but, there should be no shame. I hope to listen or more.
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