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
Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes talk about the Switch 2 launch, and the news that Microsoft and Asus are building Xbox handhelds
114 min
2
Liquid Glass, Spotlight, and the rest of WWDC 2025
Nilay and David are joined by The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson to talk about all the news of WWDC
117 min
3
Previewing Apple's 2025 WWDC
Nilay, David, and Joanna Stern spend time going through what they expect to see at WWDC
89 min
4
One company's quest for the perfect charger
TwelveSouth founder Andrew Green joins the show to talk about how his company developed its newest product, the PowerCord
61 min
5
Can a redesign save Apple's software?
90 min
6
Inside the Meta monopoly trial
The Verge’s Lauren Feiner tells us about what she’s learned from two all-important monopoly trials.
75 min
7
OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Alex Heath talk about the news that OpenAI and Jony Ive are teaming up to build... something.
111 min
8
The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready
The Verge's Allison Johnson joins to talk about her review of the new Razr Ultra, the new-look Android 16, and why she thinks we're getting ever closer to a true flip phone resurgence
70 min
9
HBO's no good very bad rebrand
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes dig into the monumentally silly thinking behind Warner Bros. Discovery re-re-naming its streaming service HBO Max
109 min
10
A buggy Sonos mystery
The Verge's Will Poor recently came home from vacation and discovered he had an insect problem
78 min
11
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
12
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
13
How Apple lost control of the App Store
Everywhere you look, antitrust fights have the potential to reshape the tech industry
103 min
14
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
15
Everybody wants to buy Chrome
Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest
103 min
16
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
17
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
18
The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft
It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars
78 min
19
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
20
Switch 2: the good news and bad news
The Verge's Ash Parrish got to play with the new Nintendo Switch 2
71 min
21
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
22
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
23
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
24
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
25
Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech
The Verge's Lauren Feiner talks us through some of the latest in tech regulation.
106 min