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Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? In the latest season of Land of the Giants, “The Apple Revolution,” Recode’s Peter Kafka explores how the origi...
Streaming didn’t just change the way consumers watched movies and TV shows, it reconfigured how media giants operated, and how they saw them...
The Walt Disney Company has been led by eight different men in its century of existence. But few would object to the idea that only three ha...
Marvel and Star Wars are the crown jewels of Disney’s empire. They’re the highest-grossing movie franchises in history, with devoted fan bas...
Disney’s soul is arguably its animation studio, which has a 100-year track record of creating iconic characters and stories, and a distinct...
These days the Walt Disney Company is mostly a theme parks company. About 70 percent of its operating income comes from its parks and other...
When you think about Disney, your first thought isn’t “cable television giant.” But Disney’s broadcast and cable television holdings, especi...
Over the past 100 years, the Walt Disney Company has grown from a small animation studio to become one of the largest companies in the world...
In October 2022, Elon Musk made the world’s most expensive impulse purchase. His reasons for buying Twitter were murky at best, but in the s...
Twitter employees had always imagined the platform would be used for social good. Their idea was that free expression on the internet would...
Twitter was created by its users, who invented features like the retweet and hashtag. These features helped create vibrant communities like...
Twitter began life as an accident. In the beginning, even its founders weren’t sure what it was: the internet’s town square, a real-time inf...
A year ago, in what was essentially the world’s most expensive impulse purchase, Elon Musk bought Twitter. That made him Twitter’s most impo...
Tesla has spurred the EV revolution around the world, most notably in China. So why is the US so far behind on EV adoption, when it's the bi...
Seven years ago, Elon Musk stood on stage and said he “would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem.” He also said Tes...
“Please prepare yourself for a level of intensity that is greater than anything most of you have ever experienced before,” Elon Musk once wr...
A few years ago Tesla owned roughly 80% of the EV market. But now, the company’s share is down to 60%. And some projections whittle it down...
Not many people can name the original founders of Tesla. So how did two guys who wanted to build an electric car create a company synonymous...
Before Teslas were everywhere, they were playthings for the rich and famous. Building its first affordable car made Tesla a breakout success...
About a decade ago, Tesla did something extraordinary: it started making electric cars people actually wanted to drive. They were fast. They...
Looking ahead, where is dating headed? Is it leaning into artificial intelligence or dating chat bots? Or is it unplugging and trying to mee...
Welcome to the wide world of niche dating apps. There's an app for almost every group -- Muslims, vegans, the kink community, cat lovers, fa...
Bumble is the second most downloaded dating app in the U.S., behind Tinder. Dubbed the "feminist dating app," the "anti-Tinder" was designed...
Dating app execs don’t like to explain how their matchmaking algorithms work– they’ll claim it’s too hard to explain, or that they just can’...
Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, The League. If you’ve ever wondered why using these different dating apps feels similar, it may be because they’re a...
When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying th...
This season, The Verge and New York Magazine's The Cut trace the evolution of the multi-billion dollar dating app industry. Through conversa...
Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for the future -- that in a few years, we’ll be living our digital lives in a blend of augmented and virtual re...
Meta’s most expensive acquisition ever and one of the most used communication apps in the world: WhatsApp. With over 2 billion users, WhatsA...
Facebook defined an era of social media built on our connections, our social lives. We’re watching that era come to a close. Now, your main...
Facebook used to brag about how its tools helped politicians swing elections. Now, the platform’s relationship to politics is much more comp...
When Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram in 2012, he promised he would be hands-off with the company’s curated aesthetic and simple features. B...
If our first episode brought you into the beginning of Zuckerberg’s vision for connecting at scale, this story is about the consequences of...
Long before Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook Meta and made an unprecedented pivot into the metaverse, he invented a feature that turned Face...
Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption explores how the social media juggernaut has arrived at this unprecedented moment of trans...
Apple has always maintained it knows what’s best for its customers. But now governments and developers are trying to change the way Apple ru...
Back in the early 2000s, file sharing services like Napster devastated the music industry. Steve Jobs threw it a lifeline with the iTunes St...
Much of Apple’s success is built around its relationship with China, which is both one of Apple’s largest markets as well as where most of i...
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and infused it with his love of product design and attention to detail. His successor, Tim Cook, is widely perce...
In 1997 Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy and falling far behind its biggest competitor, Microsoft. But that all changed when Apple start...
In 2007 Steve Jobs took the stage and introduced something that would change our lives forever -- a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a r...
From its beginnings as a niche personal computer company, Apple became the preeminent maker of consumer tech products, a cultural trendsette...
There's a secret world of restaurants that you can only find when you open up the delivery apps. This brave new world of ghost kitchens and...
Without delivery workers, there is no DoorDash or UberEats or Grubhub. And workers in this slice of the gig economy get access to a level of...
The restaurant delivery industry is worth more than $100 billion. But none of the major apps are profitable. In this episode, the key battle...
Restaurant delivery apps have made it possible for many of us to order pretty much anything we want to eat with the click of a button. And d...
Big tech is changing every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? In this special four-part series, Recode teams up with Eater to u...
Google is now facing antitrust scrutiny at a level it's never experienced before, from both sides of the political aisle. Which means we’re...
On December 2nd, 2020, Dr. Timnit Gebru - co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team - got an email that said Google had accepted her resignation....
One of Google’s long points of pride was its open, collaborative, and transparent company culture. But many Googlers feel like that's slippi...
Since they were Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin have had big ideas for technologies that could change the world. Only now...