Today on the flagship podcast of region locked phones: The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Jon Porter report back on all the tech we saw at Mobile World Congress this past week. Later, David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about web crawlers and AI. #Podcast #Technology Links: MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona: https://www.theverge.com/24078219/mwc-barcelona-2024-news-rumors-products-announcements With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial: https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders 00:00 - Intro 01:19 - MWC ‘24 w/ Allison + Jon 03:04 - Behind the scenes at MWC 06:28 - Lenovo's transparent laptop 11:42 - Motorola’s bendy phone 13:37 - Samsung Galaxy Ring 15:48 - Xiaomi's watches and phones 18:32 - Nothing Phone 2A’s reveal 22:38 - Brain AI’s gadget concept 26:02 - Humane AI Pin demo 30:10 - Best of MWC picks 33:50 - Web crawlers and AI (Vergecast Hotline) Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Follow on TikTok: http://bit.ly/42VeCVU The Vergecast Podcast: https://pod.link/430333725 Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com/ Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr The Verge and Vox Media are heading to SXSW! Check out all the live programming for March 8-10 and RSVP here: https://voxmediaevents.com/sxsw2024