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Your biggest questions from Apple's WWDC

10 Jun 2026

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Now that we've had a couple of days to digest all the Siri AI updates, the new corner radii, and everything else Apple announced at its developer conf...

How Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs

09 Jun 2026

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Long before Steve Jobs was the unstoppable force of nature atop Apple, shipping hit product after hit product, he was practically run out of the compa...

Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

08 Jun 2026

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Apple's annual developer conference keynote was a strange one this year. The company breezed by its normal slew of operating system upgrades, and talk...

This is your laptop... on AI

05 Jun 2026

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It's developer conference season, and one of the themes so far has been big swings at AI apps. We've seen Gemini Spark, Microsoft Scout, and so many o...

Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

04 Jun 2026

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Microsoft's commitment to AI is not news. Copilot has been everywhere for... a while now. But at this week's Build developer conference, the company m...

The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games

03 Jun 2026

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How far can we push the limits of the human body? At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, a few dozen athletes tried to find out, and The Verge's Victoria...

Nvidia just started a new chip war

02 Jun 2026

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Nvidia is betting that AI is going to change the way you use your computer — and with a new chip, the RTX Spark, it's hoping to ensure it powers tha...

Casey Neistat's guide to posting every day

01 Jun 2026

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The Vergecast is officially a daily show! We kick things off with the return of 90 Seconds on The Verge, a peek at the top stories on theverge.com. Th...

Jony Ive's funky Ferrari

29 May 2026

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The Ferrari Luce is here, and suffice to say it is not the electric Ferrari anyone expected. Nilay and David dig into the Jony Ive-designed car, from ...

How clips ate the internet

26 May 2026

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It's now surprisingly easy to watch most of a movie without ever trying to, or to spend hours with a podcast without ever playing an episode. In the b...

The post-search Google era begins

22 May 2026

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Before we get into this week's tech news, we have some corporate news to discuss, and some very exciting Vergecast news to share. (If you have questio...

We react to Google I/O 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

19 May 2026

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Google I/O was, predictably, all about AI this year. And if it actually works, a lot of this stuff could be pretty useful! Immediately after the two h...

Everybody wants to rule the AI world

08 May 2026

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The Musk v. OpenAI trial continues, which means so do the allegations and leaks surrounding some of the most influential people in tech. Nilay and Dav...

What an AI-designed car looks like

05 May 2026

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Car companies are beginning to use AI tools to radically speed up their development process, which could change the cars we drive forever — and have...

Elon Musk had a bad week in court

01 May 2026

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Elon Musk spent a lot of his week trying to explain how OpenAI wronged him — but mostly just seemed to annoy everyone else in the courtroom. Nilay a...

Musk and Altman go to court

28 Apr 2026

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Elon Musk's case against OpenAI is heading to trial. Musk is almost certainly going to lose, but he might still get everything he wants from the fight...

AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

24 Apr 2026

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Now that we've had a few days to digest the Apple CEO succession news, Nilay and David get some help from Daring Fireball's John Gruber to discuss Tim...

The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition

21 Apr 2026

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We get a lot of questions about how we make The Vergecast. And why we make The Vergecast. And how we make money, and journalism, and everything. So ev...

Apple’s got a new CEO: The Vergecast Livestream

20 Apr 2026

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For the first time in 15 years, Apple is getting a new CEO. Tim Cook is stepping down, and John Ternus is taking the biggest job at one of the biggest...

The 'AI is inevitable' trap

17 Apr 2026

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The AI vibes continue to find all-time lows. David and Nilay open the show by talking through the absurd Allbirds pivot to AI, the attacks on Sam Altm...

Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

14 Apr 2026

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During the height of the cryptocurrency craze a few years ago, the actor Ben McKenzie found himself wondering why no one else was seeing what he was s...

Fear and loathing at OpenAI

10 Apr 2026

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In a week filled with important news about important people, David and Nilay start the show with the biggest news of all: their silly tech projects. A...

The case for banning cookie banners

07 Apr 2026

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Cookie banners — those pop-ups that appear on practically every webpage demanding you accept their tracking systems — are one of the most consiste...

Apple's best product ever

03 Apr 2026

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We love a ranking here on The Vergecast, and it’s time for the hardest one yet: David and Nilay compare notes on the 50 best products Apple has ever...

Apple at 50: the good and the bad

31 Mar 2026

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It's Apple 50 week, so we've got an Apple-filled podcast. First, longtime Apple journalist Jason Snell joins the show to talk about the state of the c...

Meta's court losses could be just the beginning

27 Mar 2026

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We start with some important business: Nilay has a flight to catch, and is very worried he won't catch it. Also, it's Apple's 50th anniversary next we...

Welp, I bought an iPhone again

24 Mar 2026

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David is bored with his iPhone. Over the last few months, he has been testing every other phone he could get his hands on, from the Pixel to the Razr ...

Why people really hate AI

20 Mar 2026

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David and Nilay start the show by exploring the increasing disconnect between the people who make AI products, and the people who keep saying they don...

The future of code is exciting and terrifying

17 Mar 2026

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A new era of software development is upon us. Career coders are no longer writing code, but rather managing teams of agents that do the work on their ...

The MacBook Neo is a winner

13 Mar 2026

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Both David and Nilay bought new computers this week, as the MacBook Neo turned out to be a surprisingly great cheap Apple laptop. The hosts discuss th...

The twist in the Ticketmaster antitrust fight

10 Mar 2026

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Last week, it appeared the US Department of Justice was off to a strong start in its antitrust case against Live Nation Ticketmaster. Then, this week,...

Version History: Furby

08 Mar 2026

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In 1997, David Hampton and Caleb Chung took one look at a Tamagotchi and decided they could bring the virtual pet craze into the real world. Their rob...

This phone starts fires on purpose

06 Mar 2026

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While most phone makers work hard to ensure their products don’t start fires, Oukitel made a phone that starts fires on purpose. This week on The Ve...

MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and iPad Air: The Vergecast Livestream

04 Mar 2026

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Apple released a bunch of new iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Studio Displays this week. The Verge’s Nilay Patel and David Pierce tried them all this morn...

The 6G, modular, robot phones of the future

03 Mar 2026

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Most mainstream phone options are kind of the same, year in and year out — but that doesn’t mean there’s no innovation to be found. The Verge’...

The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare

27 Feb 2026

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Samsung just launched its newest phones, the Galaxy S26 lineup, and wow is it full of Vergecast stories. There’s the very cool new Privacy Display, ...

How Claude Code Claude Codes

24 Feb 2026

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Few AI products have found the kind of product-market fit we’ve seen from Claude Code. On the eve of the product’s first anniversary, Anthropic’...

The speech police came for Colbert

19 Feb 2026

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Once again, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and his bad ideas about free speech have rankled a late night host. And once again, Nilay and David talk thr...

Your next laptop could be a foldable phone

17 Feb 2026

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The Verge's Allison Johnson has recently been doing the unthinkable: she's been leaving her laptop at home. Allison joins the show to explain how she ...

Ring's adorable surveillance hellscape

13 Feb 2026

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Did you see Ring's Super Bowl ad and see happy puppies reunited with their owners? Or did you see the seeds of a complete, always-on surveillance nigh...

Could the Trump Phone be a good phone?

10 Feb 2026

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The Trump Phone is real! Ish! The Verge’s Dom Preston has seen a T1 on a video call, that we can say for sure. Dom joins the show to explain what’...

How Epstein became a tech influencer

06 Feb 2026

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A new tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails makes one thing painfully clear: Epstein was a central figure in the lives of a lot of big names in tech, ...

Millions of books died so Claude could live

03 Feb 2026

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AI companies want all the data, everywhere, to make their models bigger and better. That means a lot of questions about piracy and copyright, and at l...

Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy

30 Jan 2026

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We've been covering what's happening in Minnesota, and the killing of Alex Pretti, all week on The Verge. To begin this episode, Nilay explains why —...

Truth and AI in Minneapolis

27 Jan 2026

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Like so many others, we’re still reeling from the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. To open the show, we talk with Adi Robertson about how vi...

The end of the Sony era in TVs

23 Jan 2026

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Nilay owns a Sony TV. He loves his Sony TV, and he's a little sad that it appears this era of Sony TVs is ending. He and David talk through the news o...

How BYD beat Tesla

20 Jan 2026

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There’s a new biggest name in EVs, and if you live in the US, you pretty much can’t buy one. But before we get to that, we have some stuff to catc...

Siri is a Gemini

16 Jan 2026

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Nearly two years ago, Apple showed off what an AI-powered Siri might do. That Siri never materialized, but thanks to a deal with Google for its Gemini...

How Lego’s Smart Brick works

13 Jan 2026

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January brings two things in Vergecast-land: CES, and New Years' Resolutions. We start this episode with a dive into the story of this year's biggest ...

Live from CES: What is the point of a robot that falls over?

09 Jan 2026

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The theme of CES 2026 is gadgets. It's always gadgets. This year more than most, though, the world's biggest tech show is about how fast the hardware ...

The robots, phones and Lego of CES 2026

06 Jan 2026

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2026 is just beginning, and it's already time for the biggest gadget event of the year. As the Verge team heads to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electron...

Version History: iPhone 4

28 Dec 2025

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The iPhone 4 was one of the best iPhones ever — and definitely the most dramatic iPhone ever. It was lost in a bar in California, sold to Gizmodo, a...

The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-Tacular

23 Dec 2025

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The world runs on RAM, and RAM is harder than ever to get your hands on. What’s happening here? Every year, the Vergecast team spends the holiday se...

Version History: Google Glass

21 Dec 2025

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If you like the show, ⁠⁠follow the Version History feed⁠⁠ to make sure you get every new episode as soon as it drops. ⁠Subscribe to The Ver...

Brendan Carr is a dummy

19 Dec 2025

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Åhead of our last Friday episode of 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor: he went in front of Congress and said a bunc...

Everything is gambling now

16 Dec 2025

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Who's going to win the Super Bowl? What about the latest season of Survivor? Or the race to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve? Who will be Port...

The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions

14 Dec 2025

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A year ago, David and Nilay sat down with Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to make a bunch of confident predictions about 2025. ...

How to vibe-write a country hit

12 Dec 2025

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Technically, the Netflix / Warner Bros. news is almost a week old, but what a week it has been! And so, after some follow-up on smart shades and CES, ...

2025 year in review

09 Dec 2025

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Well, friends, it's been a year. And before we turn the page to 2026 and all the stories of 2025 begin to blur together, we decided to take stock of...

A very human vision for going all-in on AI

07 Dec 2025

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AI models are very good at summarizing things, finding other things like those things, and helping you find those things again. But does that mean we ...

It's code red for ChatGPT

05 Dec 2025

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First things first: David and Nilay are both having some TV problems, and they need to talk it out. But then they get to the news of the week, includi...

Apple gadgets, ranked

02 Dec 2025

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Apple makes a lot of gadgets. You've probably heard of some of them. Most of them are very good! Few companies in tech, or anywhere, can claim a track...

I just want AI to rename my photos

30 Nov 2025

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Raycast is an unusual app with an unusual amount of access: it's a launcher and application platform that can directly interact with all the files and...

The geek's guide to running faster

25 Nov 2025

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It's a holiday week for many of us, which means a lot of Turkey Trots and a lot of TV. We have something for both in this episode! First, Nick Thompso...

Version History: Vine

23 Nov 2025

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Vine was the original short-form video platform, and pioneered so many of the ideas we now take for granted in reels and TikToks. It was a cultural en...

AI agents are invading your PC

21 Nov 2025

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Like it or not, you may not be able to avoid the AI agents for long. David and Nilay discuss the ways Microsoft is pushing agents to practically every...

It's not your job to fix the internet

18 Nov 2025

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Enshittification. It's fun to say, hard to spell, and a useful descriptor of exactly how the internet has gone wrong. Cory Doctorow, the author and ac...

Version History: LimeWire

16 Nov 2025

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You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a handbag. But plenty of people used LimeWire and other file sharing services to share music, movies and ...

Valve made Microsoft's dream console

14 Nov 2025

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The console wars are back on. This week, Nilay Patel sits down with Jake Kastrenakes, Sean Hollister, and special guest Joanna Stern, senior columnist...

Extreme smart home makeover

11 Nov 2025

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David has a new house, and no idea what to do with it. So he taps The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy to help him make the place a lot smarter. Jen an...

Version History: Fire Phone

09 Nov 2025

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In 2014, the tech world was abuzz with the prospect of a phone made by Amazon. When the Fire Phone arrived, it was chock full of ideas — a "dynamic ...

Bring back the iBook, you cowards

07 Nov 2025

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The DoorDash problem just became Amazon's problem. Perplexity's Comet browser is allegedly stealthily shopping on the internet's largest mall, and the...

Your smart home questions, answered

04 Nov 2025

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Here at The Vergecast, we get a lot of questions. Questions from you, which we love! Questions that, for some reason, often tend to be about the smart...

Version History: Zune

02 Nov 2025

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In 2006, Microsoft came for the iPod's throne with an innovative MP3 player called the Zune. It had a bunch of features the iPod didn't: WiFi, music s...

God will be declared by a panel of experts

31 Oct 2025

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 If you want to understand the full spectrum of AI software, from "straightforward problem-solving tool" to "never-ending slop machine," all you need...

An Apple Shortcuts masterclass

28 Oct 2025

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Meta's smart glasses have been a hit in part because they don't try to do too much. With the new Display glasses, though, Meta is trying to do... a lo...

Version History: Guitar Hero

26 Oct 2025

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Millions of basements have fake plastic guitars in them thanks to the 2005 smash hit Guitar Hero. Chris Grant and Ash Parrish join David Pierce to roc...

ChatGPT enters the browser wars

24 Oct 2025

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The era of the AI browser is here, and OpenAI is finally in the game. Nilay, Jake, and Hayden sit down to chat about what it means to have ChatGPT in ...

The new Xbox is not an Xbox

21 Oct 2025

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We're very bullish on the handheld future of gaming. But we're not bullish on the new ROG Xbox Ally. The Verge's Sean Hollister joins the show to expl...

Version History: Sony Watchman

19 Oct 2025

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1982's coolest gadget was the Sony Watchman portable TV. Decades before everyone was glued to YouTube on their smartphones, the Watchman popularized t...

AI can't even turn on the lights

17 Oct 2025

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Nilay’s back! And you can listen to The Vergecast with no ads, if you’re a Verge subscriber! Big week, really. Nilay and David start the show by t...

Announcing an ad-free Vergecast feed for Verge subscribers

15 Oct 2025

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If you're a paid subscriber to The Verge, there's great news: You can now listen to Decoder, Version History, and The Vergecast completely ad-free. J...

Google's gadgets, ranked

14 Oct 2025

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Google is on a bit of a heater when it comes to gadgets. The Pixel 10 lineup is one of the best Android phone options; the Pixel Watch 4 is suddenly a...

Version History: BlackBerry Messenger

12 Oct 2025

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Back when text messages cost 10 cents each, BlackBerry came up with a better way: BlackBerry Messenger, commonly known as BBM. It was the first new id...

Maybe it's real, maybe it's Sora

10 Oct 2025

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Say this for OpenAI: it's very good at raising money, and it's very good at getting attention. David and Jake are joined by The Verge's Hayden Field t...

Google's extreme smart home makeover

07 Oct 2025

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Oh, you thought AI was just in your browser and on your phone? Well, the AI is coming from inside the house. The Verge's Jen Pattison Tuohy and Google...

Version History: Hoverboards

05 Oct 2025

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In 2015, self-balancing scooters (which quickly became known as hoverboards) exploded in popularity, and then began literally exploding. Andrew Hawkin...

The real price of a free TV

03 Oct 2025

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This week, everything is a HomePod. And has ads. The Verge’s Jen Pattison-Tuohy joins the show to talk about all of Amazon’s new hardware, the cu...

My other car is a cargo bike

30 Sep 2025

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Sure, you could drive to the grocery store and to school. But wouldn’t you rather grab a few hundred of your friends and bike-bus everywhere? The Ve...

Tick Tock, TikTok

26 Sep 2025

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After more than five years of backing and forthing, secret meetings and loud screeds, it appears the fate of TikTok in the US has finally been decided...

YouTube wants you to go live

23 Sep 2025

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In all the tech news and world news last week, YouTube's Made On event got a little lost. So we circled back: The Verge's Mia Sato explains why YouTub...

Meta's quest to own your face

19 Sep 2025

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 There’s a lot of gadget news this week! But we begin the show in an unprecedented way: with a bit of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, America’s favorite...

Who is the iPhone Air really for?

17 Sep 2025

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It's been a busy week for The Verge's product reviewers! We've got three new phones, three new watches, and a set of earbuds on the docket, and the te...

Our hottest takes on AI's wild summer

12 Sep 2025

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One thing you should know about the iPhone launch is that there’s... not usually a lot of other tech news around the iPhone launch. So David and Jak...

The orange iPhone stole the show

10 Sep 2025

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Fresh off a day filled with new Apple products, The Verge’s ground team reports back on everything they’ve seen — and touched. Allison Johnson w...

Your robot is about to get its own robot

05 Sep 2025

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It's a big week for the smart home. Jake, Vee, and Jen sit down to chat about all the new tech out of IFA, from robots that carry robot vacuums up sta...

Why are online puzzle games having a moment?

02 Sep 2025

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Hooked on LinkedIn’s Queens? Gotta extend your Wordle streak in the New York Times games app before you start your day? You’re in good company on ...

The Pixel 10's AI screamed at us

29 Aug 2025

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The Pixel 10 is in the house, and we’ve been testing them for over a week now. Allison and Vee sit down with Jake to discuss their tests — the goo...

Zooming in on weird cameras

26 Aug 2025

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This week on The Vergecast, Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake of PetaPixel’s YouTube channel join The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Vjeran Pavic to...

Google's AI-stuffed Pixel 10 event

22 Aug 2025

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It’s Pixel week. Jake, Vee, and Allison are chatting about all things Google. First, there’s the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold, whi...