Here's a bonus episode of Function with Anil Dash, another podcast from Vox Media that we think you'll enjoy.The episode explores whether Twitter needs an edit button by taking a closer look at this popular feature request. Anil speaks with Les

Eoghan McCabe chats about bots

Aug 15th, 2018 46m 10s

The hype cycle for bots exploded in 2016 as developers poured time and money into the dream of personal digital assistants. Facebook and Microsoft announced major investments into conversational user interfaces, and Slack launched a fund to cap

Pandora’s Roger Lynch makes us a playlist

Aug 8th, 2018 45m 39s

Breaking down music into its component parts helped Pandora build personalized music playlists years before services like Spotify even existed. Could taking a similar approach with podcasts help the streaming-audio company regain the users it h

Taggart Matthiesen takes us for a ride

Jul 25th, 2018 47m 44s

Should ride-sharing companies build a “quiet mode”? “We have thought about it,” Taggart Matthiesen, head of product for autonomous driving for Lyft, told me. “I think it’s interesting. At some point, we may play around with that idea, but that’

The Human Utility’s Tiffani Ashley Bell on how small nonprofits are stepping up

Jul 18th, 2018 44m 49s

Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of the Human Utility, a nonprofit organization working to restore water service to people who are unable to pay their bills. The organization, which was founded in 2014, began its work in Detroit and has since

Dream Machine’s Alexia Bonatsos makes a surprisingly good case for an Airbnb for horses

Jul 11th, 2018 43m 36s

Alexia Bonatsos has watched countless startups come and go. First as the editor in chief of TechCrunch, and now in her current role as the founder of venture capital firm Dream Machine, Bontasos’ job has been to understand what makes a tech com

Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback

Jul 4th, 2018 42m 50s

It’s been four years now since Slack arrived to kill email — and yet, email persists. While the group chat app has plenty of ardent fans and continues to grow quickly, it also draws criticism for its distracting, always-on nature. At many workp

Mike Maples Jr's midas touch

Jun 27th, 2018 47m 48s

It hasn’t even been four years since Amazon bought Twitch.tv, the live-streaming platform that has become the primary destination for broadcasting the playing of video games. Since then, the service has grown to 15 million daily users, with the

Maran Nelson scares us about AI

Jun 20th, 2018 42m 26s

Clara Labs cofounder and CEO Maran Nelson tells us there is real reason to be worried about AI — and not for the reasons that science fiction has trained us to expect.Clara’s approach to AI is innocuous to the point of being dull: it makes a

Pocket's Nate Weiner saves our content

Jun 13th, 2018 37m 39s

Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner tells us why he sold his company to Mozilla — and how he’s working to build a better version of Facebook’s News Feed into the Firefox browser. By analyzing the articles and videos people save into Pocket, Wein

Google’s Mark Risher changes our passwords

Jun 6th, 2018 47m 50s

On this week’s episode of Converge, Google’s Mark Risher tells us why the conventional wisdom about choosing your password is wrong — and about the expanding number of threats faced by platforms like Gmail as they work to protect users from phi

Shan-Lyn Ma from Zola gets married to New York

1 May 30th, 2018 38m 47s

On the second episode of Converge, Zola co-founder and CEO Shan-Lyn Ma comes on to tell us why she’s building her company in New York. Zola runs a popular online wedding registry that couples have saved more than $1 billion worth of merchandise

Sima Sistani from Houseparty throws a Tupperware party for pot

May 23rd, 2018 41m 52s

Converge is an interview game show where the biggest personalities in tech come on to tell us about their wildest dreams. It’s a show that’s easy to win, but not impossible to lose — because in the final round, I finally get a chance to play, a

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Introducing Converge with Casey Newton

May 15th, 2018 45s

Get ready for The Verge's new game show that's easy to win, but not impossible to lose. Each week, Casey Newton will sit down with one of Silicon Valley's most interesting players — to play games that are both funny and revealing.Learn more ab