Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes
This week, we bring you an episode of The Cut and The Verge’s latest season of Land of the Giants: Dating Games. This episode is all about Match Group, the company that went on an acquisition spree a...
2 Feb 202339min
Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead
Investor Li Jin helped popularize the idea of the Creator Economy — the theory that many people who make stuff online could and should get paid for that work. Then she merged that pitch with an embrac...
26 Jan 202344min
How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv
The critically-lauded video game The Last of Us is now a critically-lauded HBO series. It's about a global pandemic that turns much of the world’s population into zombie-like monsters. Executive produ...
18 Jan 202338min
"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos
A new study in the journal Nature Communications finds "no evidence of a meaningful relationship" between Russian disinformation and voting behavior in the 2016 election. If disinformation maybe isn’t...
16 Jan 202353min
Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?
For the first time in 3 decades, NFL’s Sunday Ticket - a subscription service that lets viewers watch many but not all of the NFL’s games each week - has a new home: YouTube TV. The deal will cost You...
12 Jan 202337min
Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.
Before we face the reality of 2023, we discuss the state of virtual reality — specifically, the still-unannounced VR/AR headset Apple’s been developing for years. The Information’s Wayne Ma joins Reco...
5 Jan 202341min
Reader Mail!
Recode’s Peter Kafka answers listener questions about Twitter, niche content streaming, print media microtransactions, regional sports networks and more. Peter’s producers and son also make appearance...
29 Des 202236min
An Elon-free year in review
The Earth has just about completed its latest orbit around the sun, which means it’s time to take a look at what was happening over the past 584 million miles. Joining Recode’s Peter Kafka is Bloomber...
20 Des 202236min
