The Vergecast

The end of the Sony era in TVs

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

 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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

 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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Do we really want Rosie the Robot?

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Vergecast, the co-founder and former CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle, joins The Verge’s smart home reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy...

Vibe coding through the GPT-5 mess

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPT-5 is here, and it’s not going so well. This week on The Vergecast, Jake, Vee, and Hayden discuss the bumpy launch of OpenAI’s latest model and...

How to save a smart home company

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Vergecast, we enter the Jen-era of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer, with a deep dive into the business of the smart home. The Verge’s ...

We found stuff AI is pretty good at

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus episode of The Vergecast, Senior Reviewer Victoria Song sits down with a bunch of Verge staffers to talk about how they use AI tools in ...

GPT-5's big new feature: less lying?

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a huge week in AI, with OpenAI releasing GPT-OSS and GPT-5, Grok getting deeply problematic again with its “spicy” video generator, and Tim...

Online shopping is full of copycats

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Vergecast, guest host Mia Sato talks to YouTube fitness pioneer Cassey Ho (better known as Blogilates) about the well-oiled machine t...

Diving into Apple’s Liquid Glass

25 Jul 2025

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It’s time. The public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, and more are finally out for everyone to try. Jake Kastrenakes, Vee Song, and Antonio G...

A-lister antics and Schedule A shenanigans

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summer blockbusters like the new Superman and Jurassic World movies may be doing great at the box office, but promoting them is more complicated than ...

The creepy AI era is here

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like Siri more if it had a face? This week on The Vergecast, we’re talking about AI assistants getting smarter… and uncomfortably person...

How the low-vision community embraced AI smart glasses

15 Jul 2025

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On this episode of The Vergecast, we’re going to dive deep into why accessible design is universal design. First, guest host Victoria Song will chat...

All eyes on Samsung's thin new foldable

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summer phone season kicks off with Samsung’s latest launch. Jake, Vee, and Allison talk about Samsung’s new lineup of foldables, including the ver...

A quest for the best headphone mics

08 Jul 2025

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On this episode of The Vergecast, we kick off Hot Girl Vergecast Summer with a classic Vergecast segment: the mic test. Guest host Victoria Song is jo...

The movie and TV tech we actually want to use

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies and on TV. Some of that tech is great,...

What Meta and Anthropic really won in court

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's already the heat of summer, and the news keeps coming. Nilay, David, and Jake start the show with a bunch of tech news, including the latest on T...

Tesla's robotaxi reality check

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tesla is famous for throwing caution to the wind in the name of rolling out cool technology, so it was somewhat surprising to see its robotaxi service...

Truth, lies, and the Trump Phone

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Starting a wireless carrier is easier than you might think. So is building a half-decent Android phone! But doing all the things Trump Mobile promises...

Life with the Nintendo Switch 2

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a small miracle that a bunch of us managed to get our heads out of Mario Kart World long enough to make a show about the Switch 2. But that's wha...

Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of news this week, so today's episode turned into a whole bunch of lightning rounds. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes talk...

Liquid Glass, Spotlight, and the rest of WWDC 2025

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple spent 90 minutes talking about the future of its software, and we're pretty sure only said the word "Siri" once. Nilay and David are joined by T...

Previewing Apple's 2025 WWDC

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Developer conference season is almost over, but we've got one show left to see: Apple's WWDC begins on Monday. Nilay, David, and Joanna Stern spend ti...

One company's quest for the perfect charger

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've talked many times on The Vergecast about the dream of the perfect charger. We call it The God Cable, and imagine it would charge everything, at ...

Can a redesign save Apple's software?

30 May 2025

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It's a slowish news week ahead of some very busy news weeks, so of course Nilay and David start the show with a long discussion about party speakers. ...

Inside the Meta monopoly trial

27 May 2025

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After more than a month of testimony, the Meta antirust trial is beginning to slow down. The Google search remedies trial, meanwhile, is about to heat...

OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bad news if you don't care about AI: this week was absolutely chock-full of AI news. First, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Alex Heath talk about the ne...

The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kids these days, you know? They love the '90s, they want everything to be colorful and bold and bouncy, and they really, truly love Snapchat. And the ...

HBO's no good very bad rebrand

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Names are hard — but they don't have to be this hard. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes start the show with some personal news, before ...

A buggy Sonos mystery

13 May 2025

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The Verge's Will Poor recently came home from vacation and discovered he had an insect problem. More specifically, his Sonos speaker had an insect pro...

Why Apple is trying to save Google

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where will Meta, Apple, and Google be three years from now? It's starting to look like they might all be very different. Nilay, David, and The Verge's...

The AI wearables are always listening

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about a new genre of gadget, which both she and David have been testing a lot: the AI-powered, alwa...

How Apple lost control of the App Store

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everywhere you look, antitrust fights have the potential to reshape the tech industry. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes start by digging...

The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes you want more tech in your life — and sometimes you want a lot less. This episode is all about less. First, Tim Stevens joins the show to ...

Everybody wants to buy Chrome

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some weeks, it just feels like everything is up in the air all at the same time. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk ...

How to keep your data safe when you travel

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 If you’re heading on vacation this summer, you’re going to want to listen to this. The Verge’s Gaby del Valle joins the show to explain how wo...

Big Tech is back on trial

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We promise, this episode is only a little bit about header bidding. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to talk about some big news...

The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft

15 Apr 2025

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It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars. For the third year in a row, our hosts — this time Nilay, David, and The Verge's Ja...

How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to tech in 2025, where everything's made up and the numbers don't matter. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes start the show by run...

Switch 2: the good news and bad news

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, The Verge's Ash Parrish got to play with the new Nintendo Switch 2. We got over our outrageous jealousy long enough to ask her all about it...

How tariffs will change your gadgets

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a Nintendo Switch 2. What could it cost, a thousand dollars? In this episode, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler talk through why we do...

Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone

01 Apr 2025

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David has a Light Phone III, and it's making him wonder a lot of things about technology. So The Verge's Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about ...

OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we do a Studio Ghibli-like rendition of The Vergecast. First, Nilay and David discuss some big news in the gadget world, from the mys...

How Roomba got stuck

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some products are so successful they become snynonymous with their whole category — nobody asks for a facial tissue, they ask for a Kleenex, you kno...

Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Starlink is in the White House, Siri is still bad, Pebble is back, up is down, everything is chaos. In this episode, Nilay and David start the show by...

Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Handheld gaming looks like the future — so why isn't it more popular? The Verge's Sean Hollister joins the show to talk about some new data about th...

The fake promise of better Siri

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Big tech companies are forever making promises about the future. And you might (or might not) be surprised how often they don't come true. On this epi...

China has some big ideas about smartphones

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, what's old is new again, and what's new is... AI again. The Verge's Allison Johnson and Dominic Preston join David to discuss their e...