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These three companies control world’s RAM supply #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-22 16:01
But I don't remember anybody forecasting that all of a sudden AI data centers will be buying up so much of the world's RAM that the rest of us would be scrging for leftovers. >> Can I actually ask about that. So I heard there's a data center RAM crunch and I thought oh it's because Nvidia is selling a lot of GPUs today centers.Don't the GPUs use a different RAM. Don't they use VRAM. They have their video RAM.It's on a slightly different standard, but fundamentally all the memory is coming from just a few co ...
This magazine plays Tetris! #TITW
The Verge· 2026-02-22 14:01
Today I'm toying with Tetris on the cover of a magazine. It's literally paper thin. This is the Game Pop GP1 playable magazine system, and there are only 150 of them in the world.It's officially licensed by the Tetris Company and designed by Kevin Bates, the guy behind the Ardu Boy open- source game system. It's effectively a playable book cover for Red Bull's Gaming Culture magazine. And it's actually not bad to play.The paper cover gives a bit of spring at top the seven capacitive touch sensors that make ...
Do you look at other people’s phones too? #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-22 14:00
We're getting, we think, a Galaxy S26 from Samsung at the end of this month. They're having a big unpacked event. One of the leaks that came out is an ad that seems to confirm that there's going to be basically a privacy display built into the S26.>> I love this. >> Do you also constantly look at other people's phones. >> This is why I love it.I constantly look at other people's phones and I have I I feel really intense guilt looking at this phone because I'm like well the a this sucks because like I love t ...
Dylan Patel from Semianalysis joined us on The Vergecast to break down RAM price hikes. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-21 16:00
Oh, of course we were headed towards something totally disastrous here. Did anyone see this coming. >> The thing about this industry is that if you overbuild the most, you end up going bankrupt.And so, as far as like, has anyone seen this. Like, I'm not someone who managed a company, you know, through the last 30 years where 27 competitors went bankrupt and the scars are there, right. The industry has these scars.>> Was there anybody though who who who was like predicting this. Who's like the, you know, the ...
Man accidentally hacks into 7,000 DJI robovacs. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-21 14:00
So DJI released a new Robovac. It's called the Romo. So we're reporting on this and Sean discovers this guy named Sammy Azdufall was literally just trying to control his vacuum.And he discovered that he was actually controlling 7,000 vacuums at once through a back door that DJ had not secured. >> What. So we had one, right.Cuz Ricker is reviewing it. So Sean calls Sammy and he basically just gave him the identifier for Ricker's review unit and he was in it. He was driving around with his PlayStation control ...
Did anyone see the RAM shortage coming? #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-20 16:01
It's never been like this before, right. I've seen low memory prices and I've seen high memory prices, but I haven't seen the supply isn't even there because there's entire new industry eating up all this DRAM. If we're just talking about memory, we have seen prices spike about this fast before, you know, over the last 6 months like 50%.The thing that's really going to break everyone's brain is the next 6 months it's also going to do that again, right. Um it's going to double again, right, in price or somet ...
"RAMageddon” is getting worse, and it’s affecting phones, laptops, and consoles. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-20 15:00
The RAM shortage, by the way, continues to be brutal. We had a story that the price of the Switch 2 might go up. The PlayStation 6 might be delayed.The Steam Deck OLED is going to be intermittently out of stock. It's hard to buy right now. Western Digital and I think other drive manufacturers have said they're essentially out of stock for the rest of the year.It's the middle of February. Like, it's it's crazy. Then Meta and Nvidia signed a huge deal this week uh for many many many many AI chips.Like that's ...
Facial recognition is allegedly coming to Meta glasses #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-20 14:01
really good news for you, which is that Meta appears uh extremely interested in building the bad thing and in shipping it in, I would say, the grossest and most cynical possible way. A story from the New York Times about Meta planning to add facial recognition tech to the the Meta Rayban glasses. They got a memo from a Meta executive uh who is not named in the story. It says, "We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have t ...
The Verge's Senior Wearables Reviewer, Victoria Song, went on some dates with AI companions.
The Verge· 2026-02-20 14:00
She's just staring at me. I have to shout at these AI. Um, >> what do you do for a living.>> However your last date went, it probably wasn't as weird as mine. I went to Eva AI Cafe, which was a pop-up cafe where you could go and speed various AI boyfriends and girlfriends. Eva AI is a relationship RPG app where you can earn points and stuff with AI girlfriends and boyfriends.Though it was mostly girlfriends and one Takkeshi Kanoshiro looking AI boyfriend. It was a little awkward, not going to lie. There wer ...
We’ve been tracking the many problematic moves by FCC Chairman. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-20 13:00
Ah, it's time once again. >> It is time now. >> Oh god, it's time.>> Run the music >> for America's favorite podcast within a podcast. >> Brennan Car's dummy. >> Brennan Carr is a dummy. >> He's such a dummy. He was a real dummy this week.Bren Car never stops. He's a dummy every week. He's so stupid. He's a dummy. He's just a dummy.He was an explosion of Brendan being stupid. >> That's dumb. >> This is dumb. He was particularly dumb this week.He's not a savvy operator. This is how dumb he is. That sounds du ...