The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Wednesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.

On this special episode of The Vergecast the ladies of The Verge take over the show. Did you know that nearly half of the team is female? Seriously we’re probably two women away from a 50 / 50 split but you’d never know that if you only listened to The Vergecast! That’s why in honor of International Women’s Day this week (and Women’s History Month all month!) we have Megan Farokhmanesh Adi Robertson Natt Garun and Ashley Carman in the studio talking about Google’s big and enterprise-y week Iron Fist and the exclusive invite-only version of Tinder for mega-hotties. Whatever that last thing is. Culture reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany also joins in to tell us her account of the Women’s Day strike. 00:49 - International Women’s Day 10:49 - Google's giant 4K digital whiteboard Jamboard will cost $4999 13:55 - Google’s Gboard will now translate text into another language as you type 15:32 - Google confirms small number of Pixel phones have broken microphones 17:35 - Google Hangouts is getting a major overhaul to take on Slack 21:39 - Google can now recognize objects in videos using machine learning 23:55 - Iron Fist isn't just racially uncomfortable it's also a boring show 28:45 - There’s a secret version of Tinder for hot people and you can’t use it 36:31 - Ashley’s weekly segment “Yo when will I be able to afford this phone case?” 39:32 - The CIA is hacking Samsung Smart TVs according to WikiLeaks docs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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