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
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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April 12, 2024 • 94 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Piece, and Alex Cranz discuss David's review of the Humane AI Pin, Taylor Swift's music back on TikTok, a new party speaker, and much more.
Further reading:
Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet
Here’s What Reviewers Are Saying About the Humane Pin
We now have a better look at what’s inside the Humane AI pin
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to tra...
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April 9, 2024 • 63 mins
The Verge’s David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz answer questions from The Vergecast Hotline all about the TikTok ban debate and the US v Apple case.
Further reading:
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
US v. Apple: everything you need to know
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Vote for The Vergecast in the Webbys!
Join The Verge at the 2024 Chicago Humanities Spring Festiva...
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April 5, 2024 • 92 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Macbook Air M3 review, Jon Stewart's take on AI, and a whole lot more of this week's tech news.
Further reading:
Apple MacBook Air M3 review: small upgrades
It’s time for a hard reset on notifications
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers
Microsoft...
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April 2, 2024 • 67 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of alternate keyboard layouts:
03:36 - The Verge’s David Pierce talks to Jonas Hietala about his ultra-custom keyboard he built from the ground up to fit his specific needs.
Jonas Hietala: The T-34 keyboard layout
30:40 - The Verge’s Tom Warren explains the next phase of Microsoft with a new leader on the Windows and Surface team.
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief
Microsoft’s first AI...
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March 29, 2024 • 54 mins
Today we're sharing an episode of a new podcast called Power User, which explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us, hosted by tech journalist Taylor Lorenz.
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March 26, 2024 • 63 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of canceled-out cricket sounds:
03:29 - David, Andru, and Will react to prototype headphones that use AI to take noise cancellation to a whole new level.
Hear how the best ANC headphones handle real world and lab tests
We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities
The University of Washington’s Semantic Hearing project
UW’s Mobile Intelligence Lab
31:30 - Mi...
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March 22, 2024 • 91 mins
The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Lauren Feiner and Nilay Patel discuss the breaking news about the the US Department of Justice accusing Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in an expansive new antitrust lawsuit.
Further reading:
US v. Apple: everything you need to know
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
The US Department of Justice is suing Apple — read the full lawsuit here
...
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March 19, 2024 • 69 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of scaled EV production:
02:50 - Verge producer Will Poor tags along with a former Uber Eats driver who ditched the delivery apps and is trying to start a one-man gig work revolution.
This Seattle Delivery Person Is Breaking Free of the Apps
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18:54- The Verge's David Pierce and Andrew Hawkins discuss Rivian's new vehicles they announced last week, and what it will take...
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March 15, 2024 • 99 mins
The Verge 's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the US House of Representatives passing a bill that could ban TikTok, the streaming news of the week, a Dyson robot, and more.
Further reading:
Lawmakers introduce bill that would punish app stores for hosting TikTok
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
House passes bill that could ban TikTok
TikTok’s fate now lies with the Senate after Ho...
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March 12, 2024 • 59 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz choose their picks for The Vergecast Streaming Draft of 2024 in front of a live audience at SXSW.
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March 7, 2024 • 97 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.
Further reading:
Apple announces upgraded MacBook Air laptops with M3 chips
The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already
Apple may not do a spring event this year
How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of...
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March 5, 2024 • 46 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of region locked phones:
The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Jon Porter report back on all the tech we saw at Mobile World Congress this past week.
MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona
Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
What if phones actually bent to our needs?
The Phone 2A makes a guest appearance at Nothing’s MWC event.
The Huma...
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March 3, 2024 • 48 mins
The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has as smart a kitchen as any reasonable person possibly could; she has smart appliances, a smart sink, a smart fridge, and more voice assistants than anyone could ever talk to. And for a few days, she tried to let her kitchen do the work: telling her what to cook, getting everything set up just right, and even taking some of the cooking and cleaning load off her shoulders. Jen kept a diary durin...
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March 1, 2024 • 91 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce talk through the weird and winding history of Apple's "secret" car project now that it's officially dead. And later, senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner makes her Vergecast debut to catch us up on the arguments made this week in the Supreme Court about online speech and the First Amendment.
Further reading:
Apple’s electric car project is dead
RIP to the Apple Car, we hardly knew ye
Be...
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February 27, 2024 • 65 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of the economic theory of Dave and Busters:
02:50 - The Verge’s Mia Sato shares her experience on a new shopping app called Flip, which is filled with only videos that earn affiliate revenue.
Where everyone’s an influencer and everything’s for sale
35:34 - The Verge’s Vjeran Pavic and Becca Farsace chat with David Piece about the new Fuji X100VI, and why this line of cameras was a sensation on social...
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February 25, 2024 • 57 mins
Over the next two Sundays on The Vergecast, The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy and David Pierce dig into the dream smart kitchen, the less-than-dreamy reality of the situation, and what it might take to make cooking, cleaning, meal-prepping, and eating more efficient and more fun.
On this episode, Jen takes us on a tour of her own smart(ish) kitchen, and explains why the kitchen often feels left behind in the overall smart home ra...
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February 23, 2024 • 85 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more.
Further reading:
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
Google’s open-source Gemma AI models draw from the research behind Gemini
ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight bef...
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February 20, 2024 • 70 mins
Today on the flagship podcast of sneaky gaming strategies:
03:45 - Verge producer Will Poor reports on a right-to-repair bill in Oregon and what's next in the right-to-repair movement.
The right-to-repair movement is just getting started
Status of Right to Repair legislation state by state, via repair.org
iFixit explains parts pairing
Jessa Jones’ iPad Rehab
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting...
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February 16, 2024 • 104 mins
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Apple fans starting to return the Vision Pro, Xbox exclusive games, Super Bowl streaming troubles, and more.
Further reading:
Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros
Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is ‘the better product’ vs. Apple’s Vision Pro
Meta’s big vision for face computers might be better than Apple’s
Microsoft’s gaming chief on Xbox games coming to PS5, ...
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