Tech Podcasts

Samsung has officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide, after more than 90 of the large smartphones in the US overheated due to defective batteries. Overheating is, in this case, an understatement, as some owners have claimed their smartphones outright exploded. Exploding lithium-ion batteries actually aren’t so uncommon. As my colleagues Angela Chen and Lauren Goode noted earlier this month, there are many ways for a lithium-ion battery to become dangerous, and they aren’t limited to any one smartphone or electronic device. “An exploding phone seems like a freak accident,” write Chen and Goode, “but the same chemical properties that make batteries work also make them likely to catch fire.” To learn more about the lithium-ion batteries, I invited The Verge’s science reporter Angela Chen to the show. We talk about how manufacturers are pushing the battery to its limit, and what alternatives we may see in the future. Subscribe to What's Tech on iTunes, listen on Spotify, or subscribe via RSS. And be sure to follow us on Twitter. You can also find the entire collection of What's Tech stories right here on the The Verge Dot Com.

Tech support scammers are a real thing and we've got the stories to prove it. Today Russ and Jeff also discuss Suicide Squad's awful reviews, No Man's Sky and Green Day's new song.

Adblock Plus' attempt to circumvent Facebook's new anti-ad-blocker technology succeeds until Facebook changes things up again.

So this, as with all the premium eps, is in addition to the regular podcasts. What you will hear here is Andy and I talking about the ep. The full episode is at  https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/  for $2. No obligation, hundreds of free eps are also here... this just defrays cost. LIVE in Montreal at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival with Maria Bamford (@mariabamford and Lady Dynamite on Netflix). Photo credit: Felicia Michaels Maria is a comic and has a new show on Netflix and is my friend. We talk the nuts and bolts of MONEY in showbiz and LIFE. It’s pretty amazing. The full episode is on thedorkforest.bandcamp.com and is 2 whole dollars. WELCOME to year TEN of TDF  I have an hour comedy special out and you can download it here:bit.ly/horcruxdownload or get the DVD on my site. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. You can also get a dork forest tshirt or any of my CDs or DVD at www.jackiekashian.com  You can support the show in other ways, talk us up! Get a shirt or CD/DVD at www.jackiekashian.com or www.dorkforest.com  USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: hiredguncoding.com

This week on Vergecast, both Nilay and Paul are out so Dieter and Lauren have taken the reins and invited fellow Verge colleagues Chris Plante, Dan Seifert, and Ross Miller to the show. The group discusses Apple rumors, new video game consoles, and No Man's Sky. 1:46 – Apple rumors 25:26 – Wireless headphones 28:42 – Game consoles 47:03 - No Man's Sky 55:36 – Dan's cool gadgets for rad dudes / dudettes 1:03:11 – Lightning round If you like this podcast, well good news! We have more you can listen to. Check out Verge Extras this weekend to listen to a new Vergecast spinoff: 1,000 Words with Paul Miller and Dami Lee, a podcast dedicated to describing pictures from the internet. Also, The Verge has more weekly podcasts, they include Ctrl-Walt-Delete with Walt Mossberg and Nilay Patel, which dives deep into tech; Verge ESP with Emily Yoshida and Liz Lopatto, which blurs the lines between science and entertainment; and What's Tech? with Christopher Thomas Plante, which explains technology in layman's terms. You might also want to check out Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, and Too Embarrassed to Ask hosted by Lauren Goode! You can find them all in iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and pretty much anywhere you get your podcasts nowadays.

On top of serving as Secretary of the State and New York Senator, Hillary Clinton can now add "podcast host" to her list of many accomplishments. The Democratic presidential nominee is co-hosting With Her, a new show which will chronicle her historic run for office. It's also the first podcast launched by a presidential campaign. Pineapple Street Media is producing the show, and it's also co-hosted by that company's founder Max Linsky, who's also known for the app and website Longform. Via: 9to5Mac Source: "With Her" (iTunes)

On this episode of the SyrupCast we talk about the CRTC's recently released international telecom study, confirming what we already know; Canadians pay a lot for home phone, internet and wireless services.   

Can the galaxy's most anticipated game live up to the hype? And how do you get from Land's End to John O'Groats without leaving your house? Answers are contained herein.

Can the galaxy's most anticipated game live up to the hype? And how do you get from Land's End to John O'Groats without leaving your house? Answers are contained herein.

On today's show, we'll talk about the future of public high-speed internet access; play this week's Silicon Tally with Matt Marr, a comedian and host of the "Dear Mattie Show" podcast; and look at criticism Twitter is getting on how it handles abuse that happens on its platform.

Privacy concerns, technological failures and a round of good old fashioned finger-pointing have turned the 2016 Australian Census into quite the spectator sport. ​

Privacy concerns, technological failures and a round of good old fashioned finger-pointing have turned the 2016 Australian Census into quite the spectator sport. ​

Guest co-host Christian Spicer joins us to chat about all the future news that's fit to print.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Megan Morrone Guest: Ron Richards Twitter is once again under fire for creating an environment that is ripe for the picking when it comes to harassment and trollish behavior. The Verge is reporting that Ad Block Plus has offered a workaround to Facebook's block of ad blockers. Later this week at Usenix security conference in Austin, researchers will reveal two vulnerabilities of nearly every Volkswagon model since 1995. Cyber Squirrel 1 is a Twitter account and a website that catalogs all unclassified Cyber Squirrel Operations that have been released to the public. In other words, they monitor animal disruptions of technological infrastructure. Plus, does the rise of Pokemon Go mean that we need an augmented reality code of ethics? Finally, how to make a robotic arm out of a Keurig. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Scott Wilkinson discusses with SpectraCal's Stacey Spears on the pros and cons of HDR. Subscribe to Home Theater Geeks at https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.