The Vergecast
Episodes
Rabbit, Humane, and the iPad
03 May 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss this week's tech and gadget news. Further reading: Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unh...
Phones are the ultimate AI gadget
30 Apr 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware: The Verge’s David Pierce and Allison Johnson debate whether the emergence of standalone A...
Anyone want to buy TikTok?
25 Apr 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop er...
Congress takes on TikTok, privacy, and AI
23 Apr 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of forced app divestiture: 03:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Lauren Fiener discuss the latest tech policy bills ...
Emulators are taking over the App Store
19 Apr 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss third-party iPhone app stores, game emulators, Google Android and hardware team restruct...
The internet really is a series of tubes
16 Apr 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of undersea cable management: 04:10 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Josh Dzieza discuss the industry of laying and m...
The good, the bad, and the Humane AI Pin
12 Apr 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Piece, and Alex Cranz discuss David's review of the Humane AI Pin, Taylor Swift's music back on TikTok, a new party spe...
The TikTok ban and the iPhone monopoly
09 Apr 2024
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The Verge’s David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz answer questions from The Vergecast Hotline all about the TikTok ban debate and the US v Apple...
How much MacBook is enough MacBook?
05 Apr 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Macbook Air M3 review, Jon Stewart's take on AI, and a whole lot more of this week...
A better keyboard than QWERTY
02 Apr 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of alternate keyboard layouts: 03:36 - The Verge’s David Pierce talks to Jonas Hietala about his ultra-custom keyboa...
Power User: Taylor Lorenz on the TikTok ban
29 Mar 2024
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Today we're sharing an episode of a new podcast called Power User, which explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world...
AI headphones and clicky phone keys
26 Mar 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of canceled-out cricket sounds: 03:29 - David, Andru, and Will react to prototype headphones that use AI to take nois...
Apple’s antitrust fight begins
22 Mar 2024
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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Lauren Feiner and Nilay Patel discuss the breaking news about the the US Department of Justice accusing Apple of...
DoorDash, Uber Eats... and Tony
19 Mar 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of scaled EV production: 02:50 - Verge producer Will Poor tags along with a former Uber Eats driver who ditched the deli...
Are we really about to ban TikTok?
15 Mar 2024
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The Verge 's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the US House of Representatives passing a bill that could ban TikTok, the streaming new...
The 2024 Streaming Draft (live from SXSW)
12 Mar 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz choose their picks for The Vergecast Streaming Draft of 2024 in front of a live audience at SXSW...
Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air
07 Mar 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest...
AI gadgets, bendy phones, and more from MWC
05 Mar 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of region locked phones: The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Jon Porter report back on all the tech we saw at Mobile Wor...
How smart is the smart kitchen, really?
03 Mar 2024
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The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has as smart a kitchen as any reasonable person possibly could; she has smart appliances, a smart sink, a smart ...
The Apple Car crash
01 Mar 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce talk through the weird and winding history of Apple's "secret" car project now that it's officially dead. And...
Tales of a shopping influencer
27 Feb 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of the economic theory of Dave and Busters: 02:50 - The Verge’s Mia Sato shares her experience on a new shopping app...
The smart kitchen is a great idea — and a strange reality
25 Feb 2024
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Over the next two Sundays on The Vergecast, The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy and David Pierce dig into the dream smart kitchen, the less-than-dr...
The AIs are officially out of control
23 Feb 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more. Furt...
The right to repair – and play games anywhere
20 Feb 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of sneaky gaming strategies: 03:45 - Verge producer Will Poor reports on a right-to-repair bill in Oregon and what's nex...
The shine comes off the Vision Pro
16 Feb 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Apple fans starting to return the Vision Pro, Xbox exclusive games, Super Bowl streaming...
Passkeys might really kill passwords
13 Feb 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of video podcasts: 02:52 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with 1Password's Anna Pobletts about good password hygiene, pa...
Disney’s big bets on sports, streaming, and Fortnite
09 Feb 2024
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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Adi Robertson discuss sports streaming, Apple Vision Pro updates, Bluesky removing its invite system, and mo...
How AI will change phones — and the whole internet
06 Feb 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of anti-glare coatings: 03:58 - Josh Miller, CEO The Browser Company, joins the show to chat about the Arc Search mobile...
Is this peak TikTok?
02 Feb 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Vision Pro review rating, changes to the TikTok app, streaming news, and more....
The Apple Vision Pro review
30 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Nilay's review of the Apple Vision Pro, and then answer questions from our listeners. Fu...
Apple (grumpily) opens up the App Store
26 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple allowing alternative browser engines in the EU, Netflix getting WWE, Pixel 9 leaks...
From the Macintosh to the Vision Pro — and beyond
24 Jan 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of really old computers: 03:54 - Walt Mossberg, former Verge executive editor and longtime Wall Street Journal tech colu...
Vision Pro, Galaxy S24: it’s gadget season again
19 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Victoria Song, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Vision Pro demo, the Samsung Galaxy S24 announcement, and more ...
Who will win the 2024 streaming wars?
17 Jan 2024
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Today on the flagship podcast of endlessly looping sounds: 02:33 - David Pierce dives into one piece of music that has taken over "North Sea TikTok" 2...
Rabbit, Ballie, and the other gadgets of CES 2024
12 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz follow up on all the rest of the gadgets and tech seen at CES 2024. Further reading: CES 2024: ...
The TVs, monitors, and laptops at CES 2024
10 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz are discuss all the things with screens announced at CES 2024. Further reading: I’ve looked t...
It’s already the year of AI again
05 Jan 2024
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz kick off the new year with a preview of what we're excited to see at CES 2024 next week, but not...
The USB-C Holiday Spec-tacular
23 Dec 2023
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The Verge’s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz start the final show of 2023 with some chat about the state of USB-C: the ups and downs of cha...
2023's biggest tech stories
22 Dec 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Apple pulling the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its website, the potential Warner ...
Epic wins for Epic and Threads
15 Dec 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple responding to Beeper's iMessage for Android and the various other text-based platf...
Saying goodbye to Twitter
13 Dec 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of good tweets: 03:40 - The Verge’s William Poor goes on a vintage tech odyssey in the hopes of future-proofing his fa...
The race to win AI — and hack iMessage
08 Dec 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Dan Seifert discuss Google Gemini's attempt to compete with ChatGPT, Beeper Mini bringing iMessage to Android...
The Verge guide to holiday shopping
06 Dec 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Victoria Song, Dan Seifert, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy answer questions from the Vergecast Hotline about what to buy for yo...
The Cybertruck lives, and so does OpenAI
01 Dec 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss the Tesla Cybertruck event, the latest with OpenAI leadership, and what Elon Musk and Bo...
How Planet Earth — and the Netflix homepage — get made
29 Nov 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of multi-drone camera setups: 03:19 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with Planet Earth III producer Alex Walters and dir...
Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI
20 Nov 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress....
Fortnite, GTA VI, and the fate of AAA games
20 Nov 2023
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In episode three of our video game miniseries, The Verge's David Pierce and Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante discuss the state of the industr...
Apple’s in on RCS — and everybody’s out on Bing
17 Nov 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple announcing it will support RCS next year, AI news that came out of Microsoft Ignit...
Spotify and Disney have everything-app dreams
15 Nov 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of machine learning-based recommendation systems: 03:31 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Spotify’s co-president...
The fight to save old games
13 Nov 2023
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In episode two of our gaming mini series, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante about the obstacles around bot...
Humane Pins and your own ChatGPT
10 Nov 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss the debut of Humane's AI Pin, OpenAI's DevDay, GPT-4 updates, and more. Furt...
The tech trials keep coming
08 Nov 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of anti-steering provisions: 02:57 - The Verge's David Pierce and Makena Kelly discuss Epic v. Google, a trial about th...
Handheld gaming is the future — again
06 Nov 2023
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In the first episode of our series about the future of gaming, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Polygon's Chris Plante and Russ Frushtick about han...
Apple events, SEO, and other fights
03 Nov 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the takeaways from Apple's Mac event, the problem with SEO on the internet, streaming ne...
Macs and M3s, shot on iPhones
01 Nov 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of spec bumps: 02:21 - The Verge’s David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Dan Seifert discuss the announcements from Apple’...
An impossible journey into self-hosting
30 Oct 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of network-attached storage: This is the fourth in our four-part series all about connectivity. This week we're talking ...
The next Macs and the next Twitter
27 Oct 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the next Apple event, a Twitter successor, and Windows Phone regrets. Further reading: ...
Everything you’ve always wondered about The Vergecast
25 Oct 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz dedicate the show to talk about their feelings. The crew answer a bunch of questions from listen...
The poster’s guide to the new internet
23 Oct 2023
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In episode three of our connectivity mini series, The Verge's David Pierce explores the idea of POSSE and PESOS, two syndication models for posting on...
Into the iPad Confusion Zone
20 Oct 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss a whole bunch of tech news from this week — a new Apple Pencil, the latest Cybertruck ...
The smart glasses era is (kind of) here
18 Oct 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of glassholes: The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Victoria Song about her experience using the new Ray-Ban smart gl...
The better, smarter future of messaging
16 Oct 2023
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In episode two of our connectivity mini series, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Eric Migicovsky co-founder of Beeper. Beeper is a universal messag...
Sonos loses to Google, and Threads takes on Twitter
13 Oct 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the Meta Quest 3 review, Google gadgets, and Threads continuing to compete with X. Chris...
Good Pixels, better Watches, great Chromebooks
11 Oct 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of AI-generated wallpapers: 03:22 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with Allison Johnson about her review of the Pixel 8 ...
The TV of the future costs zero dollars
09 Oct 2023
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In episode one of our miniseries all about connectivity, The Verge’s David Pierce talks with Ilya Pozin, founder and CEO of Telly, a new startup pro...
The great Pixel 8 camera debate
06 Oct 2023
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The Verge’s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the announcement of Google’s Pixel 8 phone, along with the new AI tools that raise l...
Amazon, Google, and crypto are on trial
04 Oct 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890: 01:43 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with policy editor Adi Robertson and re...
Meta's AI headset future — and that X interview at Code
29 Sep 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz break down an awkward interview out of the Code Conference from X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Y...
RIP DVDs
27 Sep 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of the laserdisc resurgence: While Netflix’s DVD.com service shuts down later this week, The Verge's David Pierce ch...
The 50-year quest for AI virtual assistants
25 Sep 2023
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In part three of our AI mini series, David Pierce dives into the decades-long endeavor to build a virtual assistant. What can a virtual assistant do? ...
Amazon and Microsoft's AI parades
22 Sep 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss all the announcements from Amazon's fall product launch event and Microsoft's Surface an...
iPhone and watches and wallpapers, oh my
20 Sep 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of the Action Button: 03:34 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with Allison Johnson and Dan Seifert about their reviews of...
Can AI make a hit song?
18 Sep 2023
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In episode two of The Vergecast's AI mini series, David Pierce sits down with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding and music producer Ian Kimmel to share...
Apple mysteries and Google trials
15 Sep 2023
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It's been a week! The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz rejoin the studio to process all the tech news and announcements. Apple had it...
iPhone 15: the good, the bad, and the titanium
13 Sep 2023
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After attending Apple's fall hardware event, The Verge's Nilay Patel, Allison Johnson, Dan Seifert and Victoria Song break down the biggest announceme...
AI voices are taking over the internet
11 Sep 2023
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In part one of The Vergecast's AI mini series, David Pierce dives into the boom of voice synthesis and artificially generated speech. The process is a...
How the iPhone 15 could still surprise us
08 Sep 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and Dan Seifert discuss what to expect at Apple's iPhone 15 event, the drama behind the scenes w...
It's gadget season again
01 Sep 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss all the gadgets announced at IFA 2023, the next flagship phone events from Apple and ...
Who built the internet? And who will save it?
30 Aug 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of social media monetization strategies: 04:05 -The Verge''s David Pierce and Nilay Patel chat with Taylor Lorenz about ...
Threads' big moment, and Sony's big controller
25 Aug 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Threads' new web app, Sony's Playstation handheld, NFL 4K streaming, AI music copyri...
Mythical computers and super apps
23 Aug 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of payment processing fees: 04:36 - The Verge's David Pierce travels to meet Keegan McNamara, an artisan who is making u...
Big screens, bigger screens, suitcase screens
18 Aug 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Dan Seifert discuss the iMac's 25th anniversary, the state of streaming, a TV in a suitcase, an...
How YouTube and ESPN control the future of everything
16 Aug 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of non-exclusive distribution deals: 02:15 - The Verge’s David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Richard Lawler discuss how t...
Streaming goes up, Zoom comes down
11 Aug 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz break down the chaotic and increasingly more expensive state of streaming video. Are we just rec...
How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co. from Land of the Giants
09 Aug 2023
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Today we're sharing an episode of Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shock Wave Not many people can name the original founders of Tesla. So how did two guy...
Samsung fans and video apps: they’re everywhere
04 Aug 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss YouTube adding a slew of new TikTok-like features to Shorts, Elon Musk's extravagant 'X'...
Samsung foldable software, eye-scanning orbs, and the future of the arcade
02 Aug 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of texting on the outside screen: 03:28 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Allison Johnson and Dan Seifert about ...
Twitter rebrands as X, and Samsung's Galaxy Flip 5 and Fold 5 event
28 Jul 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss Twitter being rebranded as X. Allison Johnson joins the show to discuss everything an...
Gadget tips for your next upgrade | Vergecast Hotline
26 Jul 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of answering machines: We answer your questions from The Vergecast Hotline! 01:51 - LDAC and other audio codecs 06:2...
The future of EV charging and Hollywood on strike
21 Jul 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss all the gadget news from this week, the state of EV charging for non-Tesla owners, the u...
Nothing’s gadget renaissance, and our favorite TV remotes
19 Jul 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of sustainable supply chain economics: 03:27 - CEO of Nothing Carl Pei sits down with The Verge’s David Pierce to di...
Microsoft beat the FTC, and the Nothing Phone 2 is here
14 Jul 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Microsoft winning the case against the FTC for its Activision Blizzard deal. Also: the N...
Apple OS betas, how to talk about AI, and our video game picks
12 Jul 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of transformers (both the movie and the AI thing): 03:46 - The Verge’s Victoria Song, Chris Welch, Allison Johnson, ...
Instagram Threads is here to crush Twitter
07 Jul 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss Meta's launch of Threads, a new competitor to Twitter. Later, Nilay Patel calls in to giv...
AI might break the internet
30 Jun 2023
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The Verge's David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz discuss results from our AI survey, this week's AI news, our Apple Mac Pro review, and more. Lat...
Google Pixel Fold review, Microsoft vs FTC, and Congress’ child safety bills
28 Jun 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of the console wars: 02:42 - David Pierce chats with Verge senior editor Tom Warren about the five-day trial between M...
Meta and Reddit prove the social web is over
23 Jun 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss the vibe shift that is happening on social media and the communal internet. Further read...
How AI really works, and how the smart home broke
21 Jun 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of open-source lightbulbs: David Pierce chats with Verge investigations editor Josh Dzieza about his story detailing h...
Reddit vs. Reddit: the latest on the fight for the platform
16 Jun 2023
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Jay Peters discuss all the news about the API changes infuriating Redditors, as well as takeawa...
The war for Reddit, new MacBook Air, and Meta's Twitter competitor
14 Jun 2023
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Today on the flagship podcast of suddenly private subreddits: 01:45 - David Pierce and Nilay Patel call up Christian Selig, who runs the popular Red...