I'm Kevin Ruse.

And I'm Casey Newton.

We're technology reporters and the hosts of Hard Fork, a show from the New York Times.

A Hard Fork is a programming term for when you're building something, it gets really screwed up.

So you take the entire thing, break it, and start over.

And that's a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry.

Like these companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade,

they're all kind of struggling to stay relevant.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of the energy and money in Silicon Valley is shifting to totally new ideas.

Crypto, the Metaverse, AI, it feels like a real turning point.

And all this is happening so fast, some of it's so strange. I just feel like I'm texting

you constantly. Like, what is this story? Explain this to me. And so we're going to talk about

these stories. We're going to bring in other journalists, newsmakers, whoever else is involved

in building this future to explain to us what's changing and why it all matters. Hard Fork from the New York Times.

Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.

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