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, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz 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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Apple M2 reviews, DOJ sues Google, and this wee...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss all the news from this week
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The Last of Us recap, lessons learned from Sili...
Video game adaptations, non-compete clauses, and voicemail.
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Apple announces M2 MacBook Pros, a Mac Mini, an...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and Alex Heath start the show with an overview of what we've learned from Elon Musk running Twitter over the past few months. Also: Apple's hardware announcement from this week, including M2 MacBook Pros and a new HomePod.
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2023's laptops and wearables we may (or may no...
The Verge’s Alex Cranz talks with senior reviewer Monica Chin about the laptops she saw at CES this year and what it means for 2023’s computer trends. Verge reviewer Victoria Song joins the show to discuss the FDA regulations behind health tech, and whether the stuff we saw at CES will ever be available in the United States.
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Apple might make a touchscreen Mac / Samsung S2...
The Verge's Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and Dan Seifert discuss the numerous Apple rumors we heard about this week, a Samsung Unpacked preview, and the latest gadget news.
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The smart TVs, Matter gadgets, and concept cars...
The Verge’s Alex Cranz, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Chris Welch, and Andrew Hawkins discuss the best TVs, cars, and smart home gadgets they saw at CES 2023 — from a color-changing car to a vacuum suction system on an OLED TV.
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CES is back! Sony announces a car, everything h...
Featuring The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler
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The Bluetooth Holiday Spec-tacular
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Chris Welch, and Sean Hollister celebrate the holiday season with a full show dedicated to Bluetooth.
76 min
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Apple could open up iOS, Elon gets booed, and t...
Featuring The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler break down all the news from this week.
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Streaming winners & losers of 2022: Netflix, HB...
The Verge's Alex Cranz, Nilay Patel, and Charles Pulliam-Moore focus on the big streaming services of the year.
79 min
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Livestreaming is back!
Livestreaming is having a moment. Is it here to stay?
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ChatGPT explained, the FTC suing Microsoft, and...
Featuring The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and James Vincent.
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Kindle 15th anniversary and the problem with US...
The flagship podcast of mounting TVs way too high in the hospital room.
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The dark, uncertain world of creator funds
How platforms gamble with their creators
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Elon Musk meets with Tim Cook, Neuralink's show...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss this week in Elon Musk, everything that went wrong with FTX, and the latest gadget news.
82 min
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The creator of the future is smart, attractive....
How digital creators are taking over Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
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A very smart Vergecast Thanksgiving
Today on the flagship podcast of connected meat thermometers: the state and future of the smart home and kitchen gadgets.
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Meta Quest Pro review, Taylor Swift crashed Tic...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Piece, Alex Cranz, and Adi Robertson discuss the Meta Quest Pro review. Later, the crew discuss Ticketmaster crashing after Taylor Swift fans try to buy concert tickets. Also: Elon Musk's Twitter saga continues and some weekly gadget news.
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The AI-generated, oddly colored future of art
Today's Vergecast covers the future of Photoshop, AI art, and Pantone.
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Meta announces job cuts and Twitter prepares fo...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss week two of Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter and Meta announcing job cuts.
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The politics and laws changing tech in the US
The Verge's David Pierce tries out Neeva's Bias Buster, a search engine tool that tries to fix political news bias. Senior reporter Adi Robertson talks about her story How America turned against the First Amendment. Policy reporter Makena Kelly explains the CHIPS and Science Act, and how it could reshape the tech industry in America.
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Elon Musk's first week at Twitter / Matter's ne...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss what has happened with Twitter since Elon Musk has taken over the company.
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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with...
Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here’s how.
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Twitter is now an Elon Musk company
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Liz Lopatto, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Elon Musk officially becoming the owner of Twitter, and what that means for the future of the company.
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Apple's new App Store tax, Microsoft Surface re...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Tom Warren discuss this week's biggest tech news.
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