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Tesla recently showed off a new version of its Roadster . Well, a new version of its old version of the Roadster, anyway. But this one flies The Verge 's Andy Hawkins joins the show to explain the last decade of the Roadster saga, make sense of the flying and kickflipping new vehicle, and cast out into the future of Tesla's cars for humans. If there even is one.

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7 pts We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay debate whether the Duo…

Plus, in this week's Installer: Call of Duty is back, Kindle Plus is sort of new, and you need to watch Wildwood.

We talk a lot about where the computer is, and where your stuff is. Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the show to explain how the web and the cloud have become powerful development tools, what it means to store a document in its domain, and why tiny, disposable software could make a comeback in the age of AI.

Kevin Roose's new book, The AGI Chronicles, tells the story of the AI revolution. He joins the show to explain its earliest beginnings: the researchers who discovered what language models could do, the people who debated whether humans or computers should are more special, and the executives who started the companies that currently rule our economy. What do they want, and what are they building?

Also on the Vergecast: PHP chaos, AI shopping, Brendan Carr, and a Netflix reboot.

Amazon's product launch spree continues, this time with a bunch of new Alexa-powered Echo devices. The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy explains what the new Echo Show 16 finally got right, why a digital photo frame could be Amazon's next big Alexa hit, and whether this new way of thinking about smart home gadgets might help Amazon defeat the HomeView and win a space in your kitchen.

Taking on Kindle is hard. Beating Goodreads might be really easy.

Steve Jobs once said touchscreen laptops were a terrible idea. Now Apple is shipping one . The Verge's Antonio Di Benedetto tells us all about the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR , how MacOS is changing for touch , why a laptop user might want a touchscreen, and whether MacBook and iPad are destined to become one.