The Vergecast
The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
1
How the future of sports streaming died
Sportico's Jacob Feldman joins the show to talk about Venu, the much-hyped streaming service that planned to bring all sports into a single platform
85 min
2
Nintendo's Switch 2 is here — sort of
David Pierce and Richard Lawler are joined by The Verge's Ash Parrish and Andrew Webster to talk about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch
88 min
3
The TikTok ban, and what comes next
Lauren Feiner joins the show to discuss last week's Supreme Court arguments over the ban, why things don't look good for TikTok
84 min
4
CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets ...
In this special live episode of The Vergecast, from the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, it's time to talk CES.
73 min
5
A Vergecast holiday re-run marathon
We compiled a bunch of our favorite Vergecast segments and moments from this year — a full six hours of them!
383 min
6
The Vergecast Matter Holiday Spec-tacular
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins to discuss the state of the smart home, before we play a game to see how well we understand things.
109 min
7
Gemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thing
The Verge's Victoria Song and Kylie Robison join the show to talk about all of Google's recent AI and XR announcements
91 min
8
Tech in 2025: who's in and who's out
For the second episode in our two-part 2025 preview, Nilay and David are once again joined by Wall Street Journal columnist (and friend of The Verge) Joanna Stern to talk about what will, and won't, happen in tech next year.
51 min
9
Searching for the first great AI app
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler talk about a big week in AI news.
84 min
10
The Vergecast Vergecast, part two
A week ago, The Verge launched a subscription. And you had questions! So we have answers.
83 min
11
Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes
Nilay, David, and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern bring all the predictions for 2025 — their mildest, medium-est, and spiciest ideas about the year to come.
63 min
12
AGI is coming and nobody cares
Kylie Robison joins to talk about the lowering stakes for AGI, shipmas at OpenAI, and more
94 min
13
A gadget lover's guide to the great outdoors
The Verge's Thomas Ricker joins the show with an update on his question to live the #vanlife.
72 min
14
Our biggest stories and favorite things of 2024
We gathered a bunch of our Verge colleagues and told them each to tell us three things from the year: the biggest story, their favorite new tech thing, and their favorite new non-tech thing.
88 min
15
The government's plan to break up Google
The Verge's Lauren Feiner joins Nilay and David to talk about the US government's proposal in its search antitrust case against Google.
104 min
16
If Netflix can't make live work, can anyone?
Richard Lawler joins the show to chat about the Tyson / Paul fight, and more importantly the fact that Netflix didn't seem to be able to keep up.
72 min
17
Making human music in an AI world
For the third episode in our series about the future of music, we talk with Ge Wang, professor at Stanford, and co-founder of Smule.
47 min
18
Bluesky's quest to be the next Twitter
Nilay and David talk about the future of social, in light of Bluesky's recent surge in growth.
82 min
19
Smart sleep is worth the cost
Victoria Song joins the show to talk about her experiences with the Eight Sleep mattress pad, the Oura Ring 4, and other sleep gadgets.
75 min
20
Auto-Tune always and forever
Charlie Harding, a music journalist and co-host of the Switched on Pop podcast, joins the show to tell the story of Auto-Tune.
59 min
21
The PS5 Pro made us sit closer to the screen
Sean Hollister joins the show to discuss his review of the PlayStation 5 Pro, the news about backwards compatibility for the Nintendo Switch successor, and the state of Nintendo's fight against emulators
92 min
22
Alexa at 10: Amazon's assistant is a winner and...
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to talk through the history of Alexa
70 min
23
Your favorite musician's favorite TikTok show
For the first episode in our three-part miniseries on the future of music, we tell the story of Track Star, a music game show that has become a viral hit on TikTok and Instagram.
48 min
24
The AI garage door mystery
Nilay and David discuss a big week in AI news, including the new web search features in ChatGPT and the reporting that Meta is working on something very similar.
105 min
25
Two possible futures for AI
Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about the recent dueling AI blog posts from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei.
89 min