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.
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Land of the Giants: This Changes Everything
n Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution, Recode’s Peter Kafka explores the company that changed what a computer is — and then changed what a phone is.
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Facebook's bad week: a 60 Minutes interview, a ...
The Vergecast discuss Facebook's bad week: from a 60 Minutes interview, to a 6-hour outage, to a Facebook whistleblower hearing.
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Teaching AI to taste and smell could help the f...
Ashley explores how AI can be used for product design, but more specifically, for creating fragrances and flavors.
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Amazon’s fall hardware event / Google’s Search ...
The Vergecast discuss the new devices announced from Amazon this week and what took place at this year's Code Conference.
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AI can be your writing buddy, your blogger, or ...
Ashley explores the wild world of AI writing and storytelling to find out if her job is in jeopardy.
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iPhone 13 review / Microsoft’s Surface event bi...
The Vergecast discuss reviews of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, as well as the many new devices Microsoft announced at their Surface event this week.
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AI might help edit the next generation of bloc...
Ashley Carman talks with companies investing in AI to streamline video and photo creation.
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Apple’s iPhone 13 event: the biggest announcements
The Vergecast discuss the products announced at Apple's hardware event from this week.
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Everyone will be able to clone their voice in t...
Ashley Carman talks with AI companies using voice synthesis to see why they are targeting the field of voice talent and podcasting.
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Epic v. Apple judge rules that Apple must allow...
An emergency Vergecast about the Epic v. Apple trial ruling.
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Facebook debuts Ray-Ban smart glasses / Apple’s...
The Vergecast discuss Facebook's newest endeavor into sunglasses with cameras on them, predictions for next week's Apple event, and of course some new gadgets announced this week.
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Microsoft announces Surface event for Sept. 22n...
The Vergecast discuss new Apple App Store policies, the next Microsoft Surface event, and some strange new gadgets from this week.
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OnlyFans' back and forth on adult content ban /...
The Vergecast discuss why OnlyFans planned to prohibit sexually explicit content on their platform and why it reversed its position days later.
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Google Pixel 5a review / Facebook's metaverse f...
The Vergecast discuss reviews for the Google Pixel 5a, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3, and the T-Mobile data breach that exposed personal info of more than 47 million people.
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Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip 3, Z Fold 3, Wa...
The Vergecast discuss Samsung’s newest product announcements and Apple’s important changes coming to Messages and iCloud.
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Pixel 6 preview / Apple reveals new efforts to ...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Alex Cranz discuss Google's preview of the Pixel 6 and its Tensor chip. Verge policy editor Russell Brandom explains how Apple will reportedly scan photos on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery.
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The summer Intel fell behind / earnings for App...
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Chaim Gartenberg discuss this week in tech news: quarterly earnings for the big tech companies, the state of Intel, and the Nothing's Ear 1 earbuds.
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Verizon switches to Android Messages as default...
The Vergecast discuss Verizon getting on board with RCS, the Biden administration continuing to take on Big Tech, and Jeff Bezos' flight into space.
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Interview: Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s metaverse
Casey Newton talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his vision for an embodied internet, the challenges of governing it, and gender imbalance in virtual reality today.
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The Steam Deck is Valve's new handheld / iPhone...
The Vergecast discuss the new Valve Steam Deck, Netflix getting into gaming, bits of Apple news, and some billionaires going into space.
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Google faces antitrust lawsuit over Google Play...
The Vergecast discuss the newest antitrust lawsuit against Google, the Nintendo Switch OLED model, and all the mottos that Stellantis announced for their 'EV Day.'
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Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new desi...
The Vergecast discuss the official reveal of Windows 11 at Microsoft's event on Thursday.
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Google adds RCS encryption to Messages / Congre...
The Vergecast discuss Microsoft Windows 11 leaks, Congress advancing with antitrust policy, and Google adding end-to-end RCS encryption to the Messages app.
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WWDC 2021: Apple's iOS 15, spatial audio, macOS...
The Vergecast covers all the announcement's from Apple's developer conference this week.
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Huawei’s HarmonyOS arrives / Microsoft's next g...
The Vergecast discuss rumors for Apple's WWDC and Microsoft's new version of Windows.
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