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.

The Verge's Nilay Patel David Pierce and Alex Cranz discuss Dish Network's 5G network (@11:07) Google's LaMDA AI (@ 32:32) Apple streaming Major League Soccer (@47:38) and more. Stories mentioned on this show: Watch the trailer for The Verge’s first Netflix show The Future Of Dish Network’s Project Genesis 5G service is live in more cities Dish says Project Genesis 5G is available in 100 cities so we tried to sign up T-Mobile can now use three-channel aggregation for even faster 5G The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life - Washington Post Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient Apple will stream every Major League Soccer match for 10 years starting in 2023 Apple reportedly wants in on NFL Sunday Ticket Apple TV Plus’ Friday Night Baseball debut wasn’t the homerun fans expected Amazon and WNBA strike multi-year streaming deal Don’t wait to install the June Windows update — it fixes a major security bug Ford recalls nearly 49000 Mustang Mach-Es over battery safety issues Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early Internet Explorer star of Windows dies at 26 Microsoft starts automatically redirecting Internet Explorer users to Edge Sonos Voice Control review: a speedy private music-focused assistant Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo interruptions and acoustics WhatsApp now lets you transfer your chat history from Android to iPhone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dish says their 5G network is available Apple will stream every MLS match and Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient

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