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Verge Extras

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

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How to future-proof a 30-year-old computer Dec 14, 2023

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Verge producer Will Poor attempts to fix up his family’s Mac Classic. The journey takes him to the finer points of soldering, message board flame wars, and a 2,000 year old Greek thought experiment.

Links:

The Vintage Computer Federation
The “40th Anniversary Macintosh”
Follow Jason's tech adventures: @compu_85

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Pirate Radio » The PIRATE Act Nov 26, 2019

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Congress is in the process of passing a non-partisan bill to increase support for enforcement against illegal pirate radio operations: Fines can now go as high as $2 million, and the FCC will fund “enforcement sweeps” in major radio markets. Does this target well-intentioned community radio, designed to speak to immigrant communities?

Episode three of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Bijan Stephen.

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Pirate Radio » Dial Up! Nov 22, 2019

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How the Hmong diaspora uses the world's most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful.

Episode two of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Mia Sato.

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Pirate Radio » Outside the wire Nov 19, 2019

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When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead.

Episode 1 of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Chris Harland-Dunaway.

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Machine Of Loving Grace | Better Worlds Pt. 5 Feb 13, 2019

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Machine Of Loving Grace" is the fifth and final installment of the Better Worlds audio adaptations that will appear in Verge Extras.

Katherine Cross' story features an AI designed to moderate video games that goes rouge.

For more videos, audio adaptations, and written stories from Better Worlds, go to theverge.com.

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Skin City | Better Worlds Pt. 4 Feb 06, 2019

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Skin City" is part four of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.

In Kelly Robson's story, a street performer gets into trouble after falling for a radical privacy devotee.

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The Burn | Better Worlds Pt. 3 Jan 30, 2019

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "The Burn" is part three of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.

In Peter Tieryas' story, “The Burn,” people around the world fall victim to a mysterious illness called the Burn. Eventually, AR researchers begin to suspect a pattern.

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Monsters Come Howling in Their Season | Better Worlds Pt. 2 Jan 23, 2019

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Monsters Come Howling In Their Season" is part two of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.

In Cadwell Turnbull’s story, “Monsters Come Howling In Their Season,” a journalist travels to St. Thomas in the aftermath of a massive hurricane and sees firsthand how the island’s residents are coping with the help of a community-based AI system called Common.

For more videos, audio adaptations, and written stories from Better Worlds, go to theverge.com.

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Online Reunion | Better Worlds Pt. 1 Jan 16, 2019

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways. "Online Reunion" is part one of five audio adaptations of Better Worlds that will appear in Verge Extras.

In “Online Reunion,” author Leigh Alexander imagines a world in which a young journalist is struggling with a compulsive “time sickness,” so she sets out to write a tearjerker about a widow reconnecting with her dead husband’s e-pet — but she finds something very different waiting for her in the internet ether.

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Introducing Better Worlds Dec 17, 2018

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Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society and environment in better, more equitable ways.

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