Recode Daily
Your guide to the most interesting and important tech and business news of the day. Learn how our digital world is changing — and changing us — five days a week. Produced by Recode and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Facebook's next monopoly
Can Mark Zuckerberg create a metaverse monopoly through mergers and acquisitions?
11 min
152
Your boss might be watching you
Employers are finding ways to monitor at-home workers.
14 min
153
The case for climate reparations
New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.
12 min
154
A dispatch from COP26
Will world leaders finally meet the moment on climate change?
17 min
155
The open secret to looking like a superhero
PEDs are becoming mainstream. Vox's Alex Abad-Santos explains how.
11 min
156
Fixing America’s imperfect shipping system
The global supply chain is broken. Here’s what the US can do about it.
12 min
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Zillow’s over-Zestimate
The popular real estate firm bet big on home-flipping — and lost big
13 min
158
“I quit!”
The labor shortage goes beyond the hospitality industry.
25 min
159
Higher pay is not enough to bring workers back
The pandemic gave workers unprecedented leverage. Will it last?
12 min
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How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
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The male anxiety industrial complex
Can health-care brands leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire?
13 min
162
Facebook’s Meta-morphosis
The company’s rebrand comes amid a week of bad news.
24 min
163
The ghost stores of Instagram
That cute dress you bought off Instagram could be found for much cheaper.
10 min
164
The price of Apple’s new privacy feature
The new privacy policy is rocking the online ad market
11 min
165
What the internet took from us
The ways, big and small, that the internet has changed our lives.
51 min
166
TikTok's fictional influencers
How is anyone supposed to tell the difference between what’s real and what isn’t?
12 min
167
Dune was ahead of its time
How movie-making tech caught up to the epic story of Dune.
13 min
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Dave Chappelle vs. trans people vs. Netflix
13 min
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The “Russian roulette” of buying drugs online
Snapchat’s disappearing drug deals can have permanent consequences.
14 min
170
Save the rhinos ... with 3D printers?
Fake rhino horns were supposed to foil poachers. Vox’s Benji Jones explains what went wrong.
11 min
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The $5,000 butt
How influencers gave a decades-old procedure new life.
15 min
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Apple’s China problem
18 min
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Lebanon goes dark
Why the country lost power over the weekend.
12 min
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The future of healthcare might not include privacy
8 min
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How to buy anything for a fraction of the cost
With blockchain technology, investing is getting weird.
15 min