Joshua Topolsky is back in the captain's chair at Vox Studios for the first time in 2013, and although the weather is frigid, the topics are red hot. Joining him today are Nilay "man of the people" Patel, MMA enthusiast Ben "Jalapeño" Popper and The Verge's most attractive editor Dieter "The Bohn Zone" Bohn — the dreamiest of dream teams.

• 00:01:15 - J.J. Abrams will reportedly direct the next 'Star Wars' film
• 00:08:20 - Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution
• 00:37:20 - As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected
• 00:45:10 - Twitter officially announces Vine, a 'new way to share video' on the iPhone
• 00:52:55 - For Apple's battered stock, even record revenues aren't good enough