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.
1
Why Apple is trying to save Google
The Verge's Richard Lawler joins the show to talk about the Google search trial, in which Eddy Cue argued that Google should be allowed to keep paying Apple gobs of money.
97 min
2
The AI wearables are always listening
The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about a new genre of gadget, which both she and David have been testing a lot: the AI-powered, always-on voice recorder
71 min
3
How Apple lost control of the App Store
Everywhere you look, antitrust fights have the potential to reshape the tech industry
103 min
4
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car
Tim Stevens joins the show to talk about his story about the Slate Truck, an ultra-minimal electric vehicle that has almost no features to speak of
80 min
5
Everybody wants to buy Chrome
Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest
103 min
6
How to keep your data safe when you travel
The Verge’s Gaby del Valle joins the show to explain how worried you need to be about your digital data when you cross borders
62 min
7
Big Tech is back on trial
Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to talk about some big news in tech regulation
107 min
8
The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft
It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars
78 min
9
How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes run down the latest tariff news, the uncertain future facing tech companies of all sizes, and what we're learning so far about how they're responding
86 min
10
Switch 2: the good news and bad news
The Verge's Ash Parrish got to play with the new Nintendo Switch 2
71 min
11
How tariffs will change your gadgets
Tuneshine creator Tobias Butler explains how tariffs affect the way hardware companies do business — and how they're navigating the current uncertainty.
103 min
12
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone
The Verge's Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about the whole trend of minimalist smartphones, and to figure out which features a smartphone absolutely needs, and which ones we could all probably do without.
75 min
13
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem
The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to discuss everything happening at OpenAI: the company launched a new image generator inside of ChatGPT, and it immediately became both a huge hit and a big mess.
116 min
14
How Roomba got stuck
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to chart the rise and fall of the Roomba, the robot vacuum that practically invented the category and yet seems to have been left behind.
90 min
15
Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech
The Verge's Lauren Feiner talks us through some of the latest in tech regulation.
106 min
16
Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console ...
The Verge's Sean Hollister joins the show to talk about some new data about the handheld console market
82 min
17
The fake promise of better Siri
Nilay and David start by discussing the good and bad of Apple's new iPads and Macs, before diving into the supposedly AI-powered, all-powerful Siri that is delayed indefinitely.
98 min
18
China has some big ideas about smartphones
The Verge's Allison Johnson and Dominic Preston join David to discuss their experience at Mobile World Congress 2025.
70 min
19
Apple's chip bumps, big and small
Apple's new gadgets this week were pretty minor updates, so of course we talk about them for a long time.
105 min
20
The James Bond Cinematic Universe
Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins the show to talk about the future of James Bond, now that Amazon has complete creative control over the 007 franchise.
85 min
21
The high stakes for AI Alexa
Friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Imel joins Nilay and David to talk all about Alexa Plus, and the AI-powered voice assistant Amazon thinks can do everything
113 min
22
We can’t quit electric cars — or robotaxis
The Verge's Andy Hawkins joins the show to talk about the goings-on in the transportation industry, including the reasons car makers are slowing down on EV production
68 min
23
The ups and downs of the iPhone 16E
David, Jake Kastrenakes, and Allison Johnson start by talking about the iPhone 16E, which is both the cheapest compelling iPhone in a long time and a deeply odd addition to Apple's phone lineup.
104 min
24
Can Meta still make the metaverse?
We chat with The Verge's Alex Heath about all things Meta
67 min
25
Elon Musk: agent of chaos
The Verge's Lauren Feiner joins to catch us up on what's happening with DOGE, how Musk and co. are making boring government information into something deeply fascinating and deeply confusing
103 min