The Vergecast 125: I have 23 children –

The Vergecast 125: I have 23 children – The hype meter is off the charts this week. The sweat is real. This Vergecast is beef, not bust. Our hosts Nilay Patel, Chris Plante, and The Verge’s social beast Sam Sheffer begin the hour with a reflection on various motorized death machines and enormous phones. Then David Pierce steps in to discuss super heroes, Apple Pay vs. CurrentC, Microsoft’s fitness band, and Chris’s alarming misunderstanding of contraception. Join us, wo… http://ow.ly/2PWApc

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Banksy’s New York graffiti tour is gett

Banksy’s New York graffiti tour is getting its own HBO documentary this Friday http://ow.ly/2PSOlT

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Wireless carriers are rolling out a horr

Wireless carriers are rolling out a horrible new way to track you http://ow.ly/2POXre

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Norwegian artist transforms 3D renders i

Norwegian artist transforms 3D renders into meditative works of art http://ow.ly/2PHsIU

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Come to Daddy: here’s the only Aphex Tw

Come to Daddy: here’s the only Aphex Twin playlist you need – If you told me Richard D. James — better known as Aphex Twin — was an alien, I’d believe you. He makes beats from the inside of a bank vault, he owns a tank, and when madonna  begged him to remix a song, he said he’d only do it if she agreed to record a variety of sounds of her gentiles (she did not do it). Music of late is often centered around bass drops. With Aphex Twin, the bass isn’t “dropped,” it’s swun… http://ow.ly/2PFT0L

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Google CEO Larry Page just put Sundar Pi

Google CEO Larry Page just put Sundar Pichai in charge of almost everything http://ow.ly/2PDRAM

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Final nail in Aereo’s coffin: broadcast

Final nail in Aereo’s coffin: broadcasters win nationwide preliminary injunction http://ow.ly/2PA8Q6

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First ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ traile

First ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ trailer leaks online – Marvel planned to debut the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer during Agents of SHIELD next Tuesday, but apparently that plan isn’t working out. What appears to be the entire trailer has now leaked online, albeit in a fairly poor quality. The trailer shows the full team in action and includes a look at the Hulkbuster armor, a super strange version of “I’ve Got No Strings,” and, of course, Ultron. We can’t imagine that … http://ow.ly/2PwiQ1

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Candy, cabs, and socks: using Apple Pay

Candy, cabs, and socks: using Apple Pay in the real world – Yesterday, Apple released iOS 8.1, and along with it, the company’s new mobile payments service. Apple Pay isn’t the first of its kind, we’ve seen options from Google and others for years. But it is the first one that works natively on the iPhone, and now that we installed it on an iPhone 6 and spent the afternoon trying to find what we could, and couldn’t buy with it. Getting set up on Apple Pay is really easy… http://ow.ly/2Ptonl

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Watch a self-driving Audi become ‘the f

Watch a self-driving Audi become ‘the fastest autonomous car on the planet’ http://ow.ly/2PqeQt

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