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
July 26, 2024 • 91 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Jake Kastrenakes discuss OpenAI's new SearchGPT product, Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold review, and whole lot more.
Further reading:
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
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July 23, 2024 • 78 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of configuration changes:
The Verge's Tom Warren joins the show to to talk about the story and legacy of the CrowdStrike crash.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage
Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters
What is CrowdStrike, and what happened?
CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft
CrowdStrike o...
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July 21, 2024 • 41 mins
On this episode of The Vergecast, senior producer Will Poor explores the AI-tinged worlds of Dries Depoorter. Depoorter has built all manner of quirky and provocative installations and online experiments. There’s a clock that tells you how much of your life you’ve already lived; a phone charger that only works when your eyes are closed; a mobile chat app that you can only use when your phone has less than 5% battery.
His most eyebr...
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July 19, 2024 • 81 mins
Nilay, Alex, and David talk about what's happening on social media — and around the web — in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Then they talk about their early impression of Apple's public betas, from the redesigned homescreens to the iPad's fancy new math abilities. After that, it's time for a bunch of gadgets all asking the same idea: is this anything? Then it's off to the lightning round, filled with 4K st...
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July 16, 2024 • 78 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of nose bridge microphones:
03:10 - The Verge’s David Pierce enlists help from Alex Cranz and Sean Hollister to figure out the best gadget setup for his handheld gaming needs.
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
Nintendo Switch OLED review: screentime
Sony PlayStation Portal review: flawed but fun
Asus ROG Ally updated review: it’s a bit better now
This amazing knockoff GBA SP ...
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July 14, 2024 • 41 mins
Humans are terrible at remembering things. On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk to one of the people who has been working on this problem for a very long time: Dan Siroker, the CEO of Limitless. We talk about what it takes to build a great memory aid, how we might use them in the future, and why it’s so tricky to get right.
We also talk about the human side of it all — what does it change about our lives when we stop forgettin...
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July 12, 2024 • 89 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the announcements from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, Redbox shutting down, and more tech news from this week.
Further reading:
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: all the news on the Galaxy Ring, Fold, Flip, Watch, and AI
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 are pricier with minor updates
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring could be the one ring to rule an ecosystem
Samsung Galaxy Watch U...
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July 9, 2024 • 61 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of corporate infighting:
The Verge's David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz roleplay as CEOs of Vergecast Inc., tasked with creating a tech company by acquiring product lines from various industry giants. They select established products ranging from smartphones and PCs to messaging and audio solutions, sourced from companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Meta, and others.
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July 2, 2024 • 80 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of spatial computing:
The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Victoria Song and Wes Davis about using the Vision Pro for the five months that it's been available to the public. The group details what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next for the device.
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
Apple announces visionOS 2 with 3D photo transformations and an ultrawide Mac display
The Vision Pro isn’t...
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June 28, 2024 • 88 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce chat with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding about the RIAA lawsuit against AI music startups Udio and Suno. Later, Nilay and David discuss the rest of this week's tech and gadget news.
Further reading:
What the RIAA lawsuits against Udio and Suno mean for AI and copyright
Major record labels sue AI company behind ‘BBL Drizzy’
Good 4 who? How music copyright has gone too far
Samsung ju...
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June 25, 2024 • 68 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of the many definitions of electronic paper:
03:12 -The Verge’s David Pierce takes a look at the Boox Palma, a phone-shaped e-reader that runs Android. He also compares notes with Clockwise’s Matt Martin and writer Craig Mod.
The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn't even know I wanted
New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024 — Roden Newsletter Archive
30:06 - The Verge’s Nathan Edwards an...
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June 21, 2024 • 97 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss Apple's Vision Pro team reportedly refocusing on a cheaper headset, Meta launching a new "Wearables" organization, a new AI company startup from former OpenAI chief scientist, and a whole lot more tech news.
Further reading:
Apple’s new hands-free unlocking feature won’t work with existing smart locks
Apple’s fancy new CarPlay will only work wirelessly
Android’s AirTag ...
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June 18, 2024 • 74 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of super helpful humanoid helper robots:
05:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Andy Hawkins discuss the latest at Tesla: new products, new initiatives, and a payday for Elon Musk.
Tesla’s 2024 shareholder meeting: all the news about Elon Musk’s $50 billion payday
Let’s speculate wildly about Tesla’s three mystery vehicles
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s massive pay package — was there ever ...
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June 14, 2024 • 97 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss takeaways from WWDC, this week's gadget news, and Elon Musk dropping his lawsuit against OpenAI.
Further reading:
Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg
MKBHD interviewed Tim Cook.
Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations
Can Apple Intelligence fix the iPhone’s broken notifications system?
The AI upgrade cycle is her...
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June 11, 2024 • 114 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Allison Johnson, and David Pierce discuss all the announcements from Apple's WWDC event.
Further reading:
Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
Apple is giving Siri an AI upgrade in iOS 18
Apple announces iOS 18 with new AI features and more customizable homescreen
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 202...
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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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