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. ...
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...
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...
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 somet...
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 ...
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 way...
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 interne...
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...
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...
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 Tuoh...
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 a...
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 stealthil...
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,...
Version History: Zune
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2006, Microsoft came for the iPod's throne with an innovative MP3 player called the Zune. It had ...
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 ...
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 Dis...
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. Ch...
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 do...
The new Xbox is not an Xbox
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're very bullish on the handheld future of gaming. But we're not bullish on the new ROG Xbox Ally....
Version History: Sony Watchman
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1982's coolest gadget was the Sony Watchman portable TV. Decades before everyone was glued to YouTub...
AI can't even turn on the lights
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay’s back! And you can listen to The Vergecast with no ads, if you’re a Verge subscriber! Big...
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...
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 Andr...
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 Messeng...
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...
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 th...
Version History: Hoverboards
05 Oct 2025
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In 2015, self-balancing scooters (which quickly became known as hoverboards) exploded in popularity,...
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...
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 hundr...
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...
YouTube wants you to go live
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In all the tech news and world news last week, YouTube's Made On event got a little lost. So we circ...
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 bi...
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 watch...
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 te...
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...
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 o...
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 befor...
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...
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 ...
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...
Do we really want Rosie the Robot?
19 Aug 2025
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This week on The Vergecast, the co-founder and former CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle, joins The Verge’...
Vibe coding through the GPT-5 mess
15 Aug 2025
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GPT-5 is here, and it’s not going so well. This week on The Vergecast, Jake, Vee, and Hayden discu...
How to save a smart home company
12 Aug 2025
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This week on The Vergecast, we enter the Jen-era of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer, with a deep dive int...
We found stuff AI is pretty good at
10 Aug 2025
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In this bonus episode of The Vergecast, Senior Reviewer Victoria Song sits down with a bunch of Verg...
GPT-5's big new feature: less lying?
08 Aug 2025
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It’s a huge week in AI, with OpenAI releasing GPT-OSS and GPT-5, Grok getting deeply problematic a...
Online shopping is full of copycats
05 Aug 2025
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This week on The Vergecast, guest host Mia Sato talks to YouTube fitness pioneer Cassey Ho (better k...
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...
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 of...
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 assi...
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...
All eyes on Samsung's thin new foldable
11 Jul 2025
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Summer phone season kicks off with Samsung’s latest launch. Jake, Vee, and Allison talk about Sams...
A quest for the best headphone mics
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Vergecast, we kick off Hot Girl Vergecast Summer with a classic Vergecast seg...
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 sa...
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 wi...
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 w...
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 pho...
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...
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. N...
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...
Previewing Apple's 2025 WWDC
06 Jun 2025
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Developer conference season is almost over, but we've got one show left to see: Apple's WWDC begins ...
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 ...
Can a redesign save Apple's software?
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a slowish news week ahead of some very busy news weeks, so of course Nilay and David start the ...
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 ...
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, D...
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 boun...
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 Kastrenak...
A buggy Sonos mystery
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Verge's Will Poor recently came home from vacation and discovered he had an insect problem. More...
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 al...
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 D...
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,...
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...
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...
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’...
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 Th...
The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars. For the third year in a row, our ho...
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 ...
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 outra...
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...
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David has a Light Phone III, and it's making him wonder a lot of things about technology. So The Ver...
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 discu...
How Roomba got stuck
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some products are so successful they become snynonymous with their whole category — nobody asks fo...
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. ...
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 j...
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 sur...
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...
Apple's chip bumps, big and small
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple's new gadgets this week were pretty minor updates, so of course we talk about them for a long ...
The James Bond Cinematic Universe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we're diving deep into new ideas about old things. First, Framework CEO Nirav Patel...
The high stakes for AI Alexa
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI will fix everything, right? In this episode, friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Ime...
We can’t quit electric cars — or robotaxis
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robotaxis: in. EVs: Out? The Verge's Andy Hawkins joins the show to talk about the goings-on in the ...
The ups and downs of the iPhone 16E
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of gadget news this week! David, Jake Kastrenakes, and Allison Johnson start by talking about t...
Can Meta still make the metaverse?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about companies in flux. First, we chat with The Verge's Alex Heath about all th...
Elon Musk: agent of chaos
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, once again, it's OpenAI and DOGE. And some other things! Nilay and David start t...
What $200 of ChatGPT is really worth
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI and politics, politics and AI. That's the story of 2025. On this episode, The Verge's Kylie Robi...
Elon Musk's computer coup
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay, David, and Richard Lawler take on a big week in confusing news stories. First, they talk thro...
Samsung’s S25 Ultra and the end of the flagship phone
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show, it’s all about the future of phones… and your data. The Verge’s Allison Joh...
How DeepSeek crashed the AI party
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay and David dig into the week's biggest story: the new Intel-powered Surface Pro. Kidding! They ...
A lazy person’s guide to getting in shape
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about the most popular and most-bailed-on New Yea...
Samsung's thin, big, boring AI phones
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Allison Johnson run down all the biggest news from the latest Samsung ...
How the future of sports streaming died
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First in this episode, a quick update on the TikTok ban (which didn't turn out to be much of a ban a...
Nintendo's Switch 2 is here — sort of
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Pierce and Richard Lawler are joined by The Verge's Ash Parrish and Andrew Webster to talk abo...