The Vergecast
The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And Monday through Thursday, 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.
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The putt-putt champions of the internet
We talk to the Sanickis about their journey to turn putt-putt into their life's work — without killing the fun in the process
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The Google breakup is looming
Lauren Feiner joins to talk about the latest on all fronts in Google’s antitrust fight, and how the government might be planning to break up the company altogether.
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AI is fixing — and ruining – our photos
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Get ready to meet your AI best friend
Nilay, Alex, and David discuss Microsoft's new Copilot announcements, and the friendlier face the company is trying to put on its chatbot.
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Your front door is the key to the smart home
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to discuss a bunch of updates in the smart home world, including what's new from Google Home and in iOS 18
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The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter
Michael Sayman, the creator of a viral new app called SocialAI, joins the show to discuss why he built a social network where you're the only human around.
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Meta's new smart glasses look like the future
The Verge's Alex Heath joins Nilay, Alex, and David to talk about all the announcements coming out of Meta Connect
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They think they’re building God
Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about OpenAI’s new model, o1, and what this new “reasoning” model says about the state of the art in AI.
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The chatbot becomes the teacher
For the first episode in our new miniseries about the impact of AI in our everyday lives, we chat with Steven Johnson, a longtime author who has spent the last couple of years at Google working on an AI research and note-taking tool called NotebookLM
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You’re cute no matter what phone you have
Nilay, Alex, and David are joined by Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to talk about this year’s iPhone – and Joannabot, the AI chatbot Joanna made to help you make buying decisions.
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Reviewing the iPhone 16
On this episode we talk through our reviews of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, the Apple Watch 10, and the AirPods 4
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The great Evernote reboot
What happened to a once mega-popular productivity app, and where it’s headed now
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The real cost of the PS5 Pro
ay, David, and Alex talk about the new PlayStation 5 Pro — why it's so expensive, why it doesn't have a disc drive, and why it made so many people feel feelings
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The iPhone 16 is here — but it's not finished
Today on the show, we discuss everything that's new, everything that's missing, and all the reasons you might or might not want to upgrade your Apple gear this year.
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What’s in store for the iPhone 16
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss previews for the Apple event, gadgets at IFA, the latest with Snap, and a whole lot more.
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The problem with Telegram
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Telegram CEO being charged in a French criminal investigation over content moderation, Yelp suing Google for antitrust violations, a week in AI-generated nonsense, and more.
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Can a YouTube video really fix your wet phone?
Also: Meta and Snap are about to show off their new AR glasses
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What’s in a productivity system?
9 different ways to get things done, with a little help from The Verge’s staff.
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The Pixel 9 is great – and a problem
The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Allison Johnson, and Richard Lawler discuss the Google Pixel 9 review and its reimagine AI feature, a Chick-fil-A streaming service, Sonos app updates, and more.
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A road trip on the hydrogen highway
The Verge’s William Poor, Andrew Marino, and Alex Parkin head to California to figure out why hydrogen fuel cell technology, once a super-promising successor to gasoline, lost out to battery electric cars.
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A Googler’s guide to getting things done
Laura Mae Martin, Google’s executive productivity advisor, tells us how productivity culture is changing — and how she helps people get more done.
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Gemini is taking over Google
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss AI tools announced at this weeks Pixel 9 event, Nilay's TV competition, tech regulatory news, and more.
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Google’s next big Pixel
All the gadget announcements from Google's Pixel event
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Google lost its first antitrust case, so what h...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news.
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Quibi's epic fall and the future of books
We’re once again trying out a couple of our favorite new show formats.
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