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Hooked on LinkedIn\u2019s Queens<\/em>? Gotta extend your Wordle<\/em> streak in the New York Times<\/em> games app before you start your day? You\u2019re in good company on today\u2019s Vergecast<\/em> episode. Allison Johnson is joined by Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, world-class puzzle champs and hosts of the delightful Cracking the Cryptic, a YouTube channel where they solve a puzzle on camera every single day.<\/p>\n

They specialize in sudoku \u2014 and not just the classic number games you might be familiar with. Simon and Mark tackle mind-bending, seemingly impossible puzzles, working through it all in real time, sometimes over the course of several hours. What happens when you get stuck? How can you tell the difference between a puzzle made by a human and a computer-generated one? Why are we addicted to puzzle games all of a sudden? They help us crack the clues.<\/p>\n

Then Allison sits down with Marc Levoy, one of the pioneers of computational photography, to talk about his new camera app: Project Indigo. Levoy is known for his earlier work on the Pixel camera, and was a driving force in shaping phone photography into what it is now. We last caught up with him in 2020<\/a> when he left Google for Adobe, so we got up to speed on what the heck he\u2019s been doing for the last five years \u2014 and the important difference between HDR and an HDR-ish<\/em> photo.<\/p>\n

Finally, Allison takes a hotline question from someone who is not particular about their phone camera\u2019s image quality, but does<\/em> have a beef with camera bumps.<\/p>\n

Read more about the topics covered in today\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n