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How much is this Joy Division Zune worth? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-11-02 17:00
I brought a Zoom. I brought a very very special Zoom. Uh >> this is a period of weird exclusives across the industry.Somehow the Zoom team decided that what would save the Zoom in 2008 is producing 500 limited edition Joy Division Zoons. >> You know, Joy Division famously the biggest band in the world. >> Everyone has a t-shirt.Very few people have the records. It's like basically how that goes. So they were like, "We're just going to put the unknown pleasure sticker on a Zoom and then people will be confus ...
What songs were on your Zune? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-11-02 16:01
So, we you and I both brought Zooms today. Mine >> and I just bought >> I bought a brown >> You bought a brown >> iPod on eBay. >> This is your Zoom like your OG Zoom. Or did you bought this one for the show? >> I bought it on eBay for the show. It was $59. >> Wow. >> And I've spent a lot of time trying to decide if I got a good deal or a terrible deal. >> You know, it retained a surprising amount of its value for being a 20 almost 20-year-old device. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> I was going to say retained a surp ...
Did you have a Zune? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-11-02 15:00
Did either of you have the first Zoom. >> No, I was too poor. >> Did you want the first Zoom. >> I did want one.Yeah. Yes. Because um so Zoom comes out 2006.I'm a young bushy eyed 18-year-old flying off to Tokyo to do the next seven years in Tokyo. My iPod, the the one with the video was a piece of I had dropped it so much. >> That thing was expensive, too.That's tough. At least you had an iPod. I had like a a creative zen something or other that was like a spinning hard drive inside of a box about, you kno ...
Samsung’s refrigerator ads revealed #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-11-01 16:00
We talked about Samsung fridges getting ads and now we know what they look like. >> I see an ad on the bottom of a slow Tyson screen for water filters. And that is a big ad. That is not a small ad.It's like the bottom. It's not quite a third. It's like the bottom fifth of the screen is ad.>> So they call this a widget and it's actually a rotating thing. And the ad is one of four things in the rotation. So there's one that's news, one that I think is your calendar, one that's the weather, and then one that i ...
Nilay’s surge protector goes viral #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-11-01 15:01
My house lit on fire. You can never leave again. >> Yeah, I really uh like I learned about this from a like a blue sky post and then a social video that has been everywhere on my feeds from you being like PSA throw your search protectors away. >> I learned a lot about uh what happens when my face goes viral from that video.Uh so you know sur protectors expire. This is just a thing. All the manufacturers will tell you after three to five years like get rid of them.Some even shorter. If you are the type of pe ...
Tomorrow: a look back at the Zune, Microsoft’s failed attempt to take on Apple’s iPod.
The Verge· 2025-11-01 14:00
It's the early 2000s and all you want to do is listen to some music. Best case scenario, you have the money to afford an iPod and the even more money to afford songs at 99 cents a piece. Worst case scenario, you have like a MP3 player with a dying hard drive that you are desperately trying to keep alive.Maybe you're running around with a binder full of CDs like it's the '90s. Well, I have a better answer. It's a new device from Microsoft and it lets you play music, listen to the radio, watch videos, look at ...
David’s sexy Toy Story costume #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-11-01 12:00
My whole family is doing Toy Story. Uh, I've talked about the Toy Story obsession recently. So, our youngest is going to be Rex the dinosaur. Arthur's going to be Buzz.I'm Woody. And Anna, my wife, is Jesse. And I just want to tell you a very short story.So, Anna bought all these costumes for us because she's wonderful. And basically went on Amazon, searched, you know, the name costume and bought the first thing that came up that had good reviews. Um, and it turns out that Amazon is a tricky thing to buy cl ...
These Halloween costumes are AI. Why doesn't anyone care?
The Verge· 2025-10-31 20:19
Martha, what are you supposed to be. >> I'm a spice girl. >> Supposed to be Mr.. Lambert. >> French toast. Bonjour.>> Supposed to be Mr. . Barber. >> Dr.. Pepper. >> And I'm about to lose my damn gourd because that's all AI. This is all fake.If you saw some of these videos this week of a retirement community showing off some of their cool costumes, you might have been fooled into feeling a human connection with some ones and zeros. So, we debunk AI videos. And this one was honestly tough.This video has over ...
360 camera comparison
The Verge· 2025-10-30 19:14
Which of these 360 cameras looks the best. I have the GoPro Max 2. I have the Insta X5 right here.And I have, just for fun, the original GoPro Max just to see how it's improved after almost 6 years. All right, let's try and do this without breaking all of my bones. GoPro Max 2 has heavily been pushing that it shoots true 8K.The Insta X5 does capture 8K, but you actually get more like 7.2%K 2K because some of the sensor is being used for overlap pixels that stitch the images together. But do you even notice ...
The Verge's Victoria Son on how Meta's smart glasses live captions work. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-10-28 20:20
I actually really like the live captions and the translate. I wish they worked a little bit better because in my demo I was like, "This is amazing." And in real life, I was like, "Oh, there's a lot of scenarios where this is actually a little finicky." >> How are they supposed to work. >> So, when you're in a conversation with someone, they just live caption what you're saying.And so, like, I'm I've used them in various situations. And if you're hard of hearing or you're in a loud room, that can be really u ...