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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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.
79 min
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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.
50 min
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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.
54 min
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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.
94 min
105
Google’s next big Pixel
All the gadget announcements from Google's Pixel event
52 min
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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.
81 min
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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.
71 min
108
Apple's Intelligence beta and more AI chaos
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Allison Johnson, and Victoria Song discuss Apple iOS 18.1 beta. upcoming Pixel 9 rumors, Olympics coverage, AI deepfake regulation, and more.
91 min
109
The history of Roku and the fight over CarPlay
Today we try out a couple of show formats we’ve been planning for a while.
62 min
110
In search of the perfect movie recommendation
If AI can learn everything about everything, can it tell me what to watch on Netflix tonight?
35 min
111
Search as we know it is officially over
OpenAI's new SearchGPT product, Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold review, and whole lot more.
88 min
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Inside the global computer crash
After a small configuration change brought down millions of computers around the world, The Verge's Tom Warren joins the show to tell us what happened,
76 min
113
The all-seeing AI webcam
On this episode of The Vergecast, senior producer Will Poor explores the AI-tinged worlds of Dries Depoorter
38 min
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Gadgets are getting weird — and so are iPhone h...
Nilay, Alex, and David talk about what's happening on social media in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
78 min
115
Picking the perfect portable console
Also: a "face computer" microphone test.
75 min
116
Inside the AI memory machine
How AI might help us remember everything and how a perfect memory might change our lives forever.
38 min
117
Samsung’s new folds, flips, and Apple clones
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the announcements from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, Redbox shutting down, and more tech news from this week.
87 min
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The Vergecast builds a tech company
David, Nilay, and Alex decide what product lines they would buy if they were all co-CEOs of Vergecast Inc.
58 min
119
Apple’s Vision Pro: five months later
David Pierce chats with Victoria Song and Wes Davis about using the Vision Pro for the five months that its been available to the public.
77 min
120
The music industry’s AI fight
The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce chat with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding about the RIAA lawsuit against AI music startups Udio and Suno.
85 min
121
New chips, new screens, new gadgets
Reviews of the Boox Palma and Microsoft's new Surface computers
64 min
122
The next next thing in AI and AR
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss Apple's Vision Pro team reportedly refocusing on a cheaper headset, Meta launching a new "Wearables" organization, a new AI company startup from former OpenAI chief scientist, and a whole lot more tech news.
93 min
123
Tesla’s big, epic, confusing future
Also: a chiller way to use your fitness wearable
71 min
124
Apple and OpenAI make a deal
Also: gadget news!
94 min
125
Apple Intelligence, iPhones, and the rest of WW...
Our annual Apple developer conference recap
111 min