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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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
52
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
53
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
54
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
55
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
56
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
57
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
58
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
59
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
60
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
61
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
62
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
63
The confusing state of Apple Intelligence
Nilay, David, and Richard Lawler talk about all of the coming Apple gadgets and software, from the new iPad Mini to the upcoming week of Mac announcements
86 min
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AirPods are good for your (hearing) health
The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to talk about her year of testing smart rings, and then Chris Welch takes us through his testing of the new hearing health features for Apple's AirPods
76 min
65
The tech YouTuber who opened a coffee shop
David Cogen tells the story of how a YouTuber becomes a coffee shop owner — and how to bring those two things together without ruining them both.
42 min
66
The future of the Kindle with Panos Panay
Nilay and David talk about the week in gadget news, after scoring their predictions on last week's Tesla event
111 min
67
They're called "Podcasts"
In this episode, we go back two decades to the first days of the podcast.
63 min
68
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
49 min
69
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.
96 min
70
AI is fixing — and ruining – our photos
88 min
71
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.
99 min
72
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
77 min
73
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.
52 min
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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
101 min
75
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.
67 min