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.
Episodes
June 7, 2024 • 80 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss what they expect to see next week at Apple's WWDC, or "dub dub" as it's more affectionately known. But first, we take you through all the gadgets previewed at Computex.
Further reading:
This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself to HP for $1 billion
Humane, the startup behind t...
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June 4, 2024 • 67 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of audio over Wi-Fi:
03:02 - The Verge’s Chris Welch shares his review of Sonos's Ace headphones.
Sonos Ace review: was it worth it?
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign
28:58 - MoviePass, MovieCrash director Muta’Ali and MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes discuss what went wrong with the MoviePass subscription service and how that story was documented in the film.
Movie...
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May 31, 2024 • 92 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Google's algorithm leak, OpenAI content deals, and more tech news from this week.
Further reading:
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
Secrets from...
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May 28, 2024 • 85 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of open smart home standards:
03:25 - Microsoft’s Pavan Davuluri, leader for Windows and Devices, joins the show to discuss the future of the AI PC and what’s next for Microsoft’s hardware
Microsoft’s new Windows chief on the future of the OS, Surface, and those annoying ads
Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer
Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
30:25 - The Verge’s ...
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May 26, 2024 • 37 mins
On this episode of The Vergecast, the fourth and final installment of our series on the five senses of video games, we asked Polygon’s Charlie Hall to help us make sense of the current state of the art in flight simulation. Hall, who once spent more than four months in VR mapping the edge of the Milky Way galaxy in Elite: Dangerous, has more experience in a virtual cockpit than most. We wanted to know how the pros set up their simu...
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May 24, 2024 • 91 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Microsoft Build, the OpenAI's trouble with Scarlett Johansson, new Sonos headphones, and more.
Further reading:
Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
https://www.theverge.com › microsoft-surface-pro-pric...
Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm expe...
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May 21, 2024 • 70 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of Arm-based chipsets:
03:08 - The Verge’s Tom Warren and David Pierce discuss the announcements from Microsoft’s Surface event, including the new Arm-powered Surface Laptop, and Copilot Plus PCs.
Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops
Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro gets an OLED display for the first time
Microsoft an...
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May 19, 2024 • 35 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of refillable scent cartridges:
Producer Andru Marino tries out a gadget called the Gamescent, an AI-powered scent machine that syncs with your gaming and movie watching experience. He walks David Pierce through the experience and whether integrating olfaction could be the future of gaming.
We also hear from Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor at the University of Maine working on taste sensat...
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May 17, 2024 • 94 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Google I/O and OpenAI's GPT4o event.
Further reading:
Google and OpenAI race to build the feature of search
OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users
ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her
ChatGPT is getting a Mac app
OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open to all for free
OpenAI’s “ChatGPT...
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May 14, 2024 • 72 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of tandem OLEDs:
The Verge’s David Pierce and Chris Welch discuss the new iPad Pros with an OLED screen, Sonos’ controversial new app, and Sonos’ leaked headphones.
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill
The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it's not the one to get
The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy
Sonos Ace headphones will have magnetic ear...
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May 12, 2024 • 27 mins
In episode two of our Five Senses of Gaming miniseries, David Pierce dives into the world of hearing with audio-only video games with Paul Bennun, who has been in this space longer than most. Years ago, Bennun and his team at Somethin’ Else made a series of games called Papa Sangre that were among the most innovative and most popular games of their kind. He explains what makes an audio game work, why the iPhone 4 was such a crucial...
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May 10, 2024 • 90 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's iPad event, the evolution of the streaming business, updates on the Wisconsin Foxconn site, and much more tech news.
Apple iPad event: all the news from Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ reveal
The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
Here's how the latest iPad Pro compares to the new iPad Air (and prior models)
Apple adds a 13-inch iPad Air to the mix
Th...
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May 7, 2024 • 71 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of enterprise certificate hacks:
03:22 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Riley Testut, founder of AltStore and developer of the game emulator app Delta, about how his app finally made it into Apple’s App Store.
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
Delta is the game emulator your iPhone has been mis...
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May 5, 2024 • 29 mins
We’re kicking off our “Five Senses of Gaming” miniseries today, starting with “touch.” The Verge’s William Poor explores a controller crisis in the Nintendo 64 speedrunning community, and follows one speedrunner’s quest to recreate a mythical controller he lost.
Further reading/viewing:
How Sticks Are Sabotaging Speedrunners (Stick Crisis History)
abney317 on Twitch
The Quest to Beat abney317
Mariokart64.com
More on Beck Abne...
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May 3, 2024 • 82 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss this week's tech and gadget news.
Further reading:
Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget
The Rabbit R1’s first software update addresses its dismal battery life - The Verge
Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along
TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fea...
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April 30, 2024 • 73 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware:
The Verge’s David Pierce and Allison Johnson debate whether the emergence of standalone AI gadgets like the Humane Pin and the Rabbit R1 are better off as apps or should exist as its own hardware.
Humane AI Pin review: not even close
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t
A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget
Can...
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April 25, 2024 • 100 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop era, and more.
Further reading:
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk
Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget
Apple announces May 7th event for new iP...
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April 23, 2024 • 78 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of forced app divestiture:
03:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Lauren Fiener discuss the latest tech policy bills floating through Congress, including a privacy bill, a generative AI bill, and the TikTok divest-or-ban bill.
TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again
TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
Lawmakers unveil new bipartisan digital privacy bill after...
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April 19, 2024 • 94 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss third-party iPhone app stores, game emulators, Google Android and hardware team restructuring, the latest TikTok news, and more.
Further reading:
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store
The first Apple-approved ...
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April 16, 2024 • 83 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of undersea cable management:
04:10 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Josh Dzieza discuss the industry of laying and maintaining undersea cables that connect us to the internet.
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
43:43 - Tom Warren and Joanna Nelius join the show to discuss the future of Arm chips on PCs and whether or not we’re about to get a huge jump in performance on m...
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