What's Tech?
Enjoy the archives of this retired, award-winning series from Christopher Thomas Plante and The Verge that explained technology bit by bit. The series finale aired December 6th, 2016, shortly before Chris re-joined Polygon as its executive editor. For more on what’s happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets, listen and subscribe to The Vergecast.
1
The What’s Tech series finale
22 min
2
What are Snapchat Spectacles, and do I have to ...
19 min
3
How smartphone cameras took over the world
23 min
4
How HTTPS is slowly but surely making the inter...
29 min
5
Why is everyone making GIFs of themselves?
14 min
6
How immersive haunted houses and participatory ...
24 min
7
Why smartphone batteries explode, and why they ...
16 min
8
How Snapchat’s goofy faces made everyone comfor...
13 min
9
The good and bad news of the Earth-sized planet...
20 min
10
A few simple tech tips for living in a dorm or ...
22 min
11
A simple explanation of No Man’s Sky and its in...
16 min
12
Hate going to the grocery store? Maybe it's tim...
17 min
13
Why Sony and Microsoft are already announcing a...
16 min
14
Is your neighborhood the next great social medi...
19 min
15
A podcast explains the power of podcasts
16 min
16
Why Pokémon Go is a hit, how it helped Nintendo...
20 min
17
The agony and the ecstasy of life as a webcomic...
13 min
18
How The Bachelor became social media’s favorite...
25 min
19
What you need to know about doxxing, the averag...
30 min
20
What you should know about torrenting
16 min
21
How a computer the size of a credit card is cha...
15 min
22
How people play Nintendo games on a computer, a...
19 min
23
What are graphics cards, and why do you want one?
28 min
24
Everything you wanted to know about Drake, but ...
27 min
25
Why movie theaters should and shouldn't be afra...
28 min