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. 

Technology
Tech News
1
AI agents are invading your PC
David and Nilay discuss the ways Microsoft is pushing agents to practically every corner of Windows
89 min
2
It's not your job to fix the internet
Cory Doctorow joins The Vergecast this week to help us figure out what to do about Enshitification
60 min
3
Version History: LimeWire
70 min
4
Valve made Microsoft's dream console
Nilay Patel sits down with Jake Kastrenakes, Sean Hollister, and special guest Joanna Stern, senior columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to talk about Valve's return to the living room gaming race
96 min
5
Extreme smart home makeover
David has a new house, and no idea what to do with it.
80 min
6
Version History: Fire Phone
80 min
7
Bring back the iBook, you cowards
David and Nilay talk about the reports of an impending cheaper Mac with an iPhone chip, and whether that might mark Apple's true return to consumer laptops
104 min
8
Your smart home questions, answered
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy helps us answer a whole bunch of your smart home questions
62 min
9
Version History: Zune
74 min
10
God will be declared by a panel of experts
David and Nilay run through the news, which will change how people use Photoshop but also maybe change our social feeds
99 min
11
An Apple Shortcuts masterclass
The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to tell us about her experience with the Meta Display glasses
80 min
12
Version History: Guitar Hero
73 min
13
ChatGPT enters the browser wars
Nilay, Jake, and Hayden sit down to chat about what it means to have ChatGPT in your browser
95 min
14
The new Xbox is not an Xbox
75 min
15
Version History: Sony Watchman
61 min
16
AI can't even turn on the lights
Nilay’s back!
98 min
17
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0 min
18
Google's gadgets, ranked
With the help of The Verge’s Victoria Song and Allison Johnson, we do the impossible: we rank all six of Google’s Pixel gadgets
59 min
19
Version History: BlackBerry Messenger
59 min
20
Maybe it's real, maybe it's Sora
David and Jake are joined by The Verge's Hayden Field to talk about OpenAI's demo day
85 min
21
Google's extreme smart home makeover
The Verge's Jen Pattison Tuohy and Google's Anish Kattukaran both join the show to discuss last week's Google smart home news
79 min
22
Version History: Hoverboards
63 min
23
The real price of a free TV
The Verge’s Emma Roth tells Jen and David about her experience with Telly, the TV that ships to your house for free in exchange for showing you ads all the time.
107 min
24
My other car is a cargo bike
The Verge’s Andy Hawkins joins the show to tell us all about his adventures with electric cargo bikes
61 min
25
Tick Tock, TikTok
92 min