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The Vergecast
The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And Monday through Thursday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s ex...
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Our favorite tips for logging off
For many of us in the US, it's the beginning of a holiday weekend. So we figured we'd try and help you out. We grabbed a bunch of Verge staffers, and...
The video game disc is dead
Things don't look great for console and game makers right now. With Xbox and PlayStation sales flagging, Microsoft preparing for big layoffs in its ga...
Rivian’s last chance to take on Tesla
For years, Rivian has looked like one of the most compelling electric vehicle companies in America — and maybe the car maker most equipped to take on...
Meet The Onion's new and improved InfoWars
The Onion's takeover of conspiracy show InfoWars isn't officially complete — but comedian Tim Heidecker, who's serving as creative director, won't let...
Our vibe coded projects that actually work
It's time for a new series on The Vergecast! (It still needs a name. Please help.) We're going to give Verge staffers a challenge, and regroup a few w...
Of course Meta thinks gambling is the future
Meta's business is doing just fine. But Meta as a company, and Meta as a series of products? That is, uh, messier. David and Nilay discuss the company...
How to train your data
Training data is the raw material of the AI industry. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the rest are built on top of oceans of stuff. What is that stuff? B...
Google's new speaker and your smart home questions
Google is shipping its first smart speaker in six years, and we're starting to test it. The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to explain...
Why Big Tech can't quit smart glasses
A huge portion of the tech industry has decided that smart glasses are the next big thing. But why? Smart glasses are incredibly hard to make, hugely...
Is the Steam Machine worth the wait?
Valve has been trying to crack the living room for more than a decade, and the new Steam Machine is its best attempt yet. It's a little bit PC, a litt...
Version History: Harmony remote
The Harmony Universal Remote was supposed to be the only controller you needed for all the devices in your life. So what happened? David Pierce is joi...
Snap's Specs look good on nobody
The new smart glasses from Snap look like an impressive bit of technology, and some of the most advanced glasses we've seen. But Nilay and David start...
The best headphone mic we've ever tested
Your headphones' microphone matters. A lot. And yet we never know how we sound to others, or whether we're clear to our AI assistants! So from time to...
The Mythos mess and your AI questions, answered
Anthropic and the US government are once again at odds, this time over the Claude Fable 5 model that either is, or is not, or might be, far too danger...
# The **epic** story of Markdown
Markdown is a system for writing that makes it readable to both humans and computers. It's all about the symbols. You use - to make a list, * for emph...
Siri is good now??
We're all starting to test Apple's newest software post-WWDC, and the most surprising thing has happened: Siri actually seems to be pretty good now. N...
YouTube is taking over Hollywood
Movies directed by YouTubers are suddenly blowing up at the box office. Backrooms and Obsession are both smash hits, and The Amazing Digital Circus ha...
Your biggest questions from Apple's WWDC
Now that we've had a couple of days to digest all the Siri AI updates, the new corner radii, and everything else Apple announced at its developer conf...
How Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs
Long before Steve Jobs was the unstoppable force of nature atop Apple, shipping hit product after hit product, he was practically run out of the compa...
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Apple's annual developer conference keynote was a strange one this year. The company breezed by its normal slew of operating system upgrades, and talk...
This is your laptop... on AI
It's developer conference season, and one of the themes so far has been big swings at AI apps. We've seen Gemini Spark, Microsoft Scout, and so many o...
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI
Microsoft's commitment to AI is not news. Copilot has been everywhere for... a while now. But at this week's Build developer conference, the company m...
The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games
How far can we push the limits of the human body? At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, a few dozen athletes tried to find out, and The Verge's Victoria...
Nvidia just started a new chip war
Nvidia is betting that AI is going to change the way you use your computer — and with a new chip, the RTX Spark, it's hoping to ensure it powers that...
Casey Neistat's guide to posting every day
The Vergecast is officially a daily show! We kick things off with the return of 90 Seconds on The Verge, a peek at the top stories on theverge.com. Th...
Jony Ive's funky Ferrari
The Ferrari Luce is here, and suffice to say it is not the electric Ferrari anyone expected. Nilay and David dig into the Jony Ive-designed car, from...
How clips ate the internet
It's now surprisingly easy to watch most of a movie without ever trying to, or to spend hours with a podcast without ever playing an episode. In the b...
The post-search Google era begins
Before we get into this week's tech news, we have some corporate news to discuss, and some very exciting Vergecast news to share. (If you have questio...
We react to Google I/O 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Google I/O was, predictably, all about AI this year. And if it actually works, a lot of this stuff could be pretty useful! Immediately after the two h...
Everybody wants to rule the AI world
The Musk v. OpenAI trial continues, which means so do the allegations and leaks surrounding some of the most influential people in tech. Nilay and Dav...
What an AI-designed car looks like
Car companies are beginning to use AI tools to radically speed up their development process, which could change the cars we drive forever — and have s...
Elon Musk had a bad week in court
Elon Musk spent a lot of his week trying to explain how OpenAI wronged him — but mostly just seemed to annoy everyone else in the courtroom. Nilay and...
Musk and Altman go to court
Elon Musk's case against OpenAI is heading to trial. Musk is almost certainly going to lose, but he might still get everything he wants from the fight...
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy
Now that we've had a few days to digest the Apple CEO succession news, Nilay and David get some help from Daring Fireball's John Gruber to discuss Tim...
The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition
We get a lot of questions about how we make The Vergecast. And why we make The Vergecast. And how we make money, and journalism, and everything. So ev...
Apple’s got a new CEO: The Vergecast Livestream
For the first time in 15 years, Apple is getting a new CEO. Tim Cook is stepping down, and John Ternus is taking the biggest job at one of the biggest...
The 'AI is inevitable' trap
The AI vibes continue to find all-time lows. David and Nilay open the show by talking through the absurd Allbirds pivot to AI, the attacks on Sam Altm...
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto
During the height of the cryptocurrency craze a few years ago, the actor Ben McKenzie found himself wondering why no one else was seeing what he was s...
Fear and loathing at OpenAI
In a week filled with important news about important people, David and Nilay start the show with the biggest news of all: their silly tech projects. A...
The case for banning cookie banners
Cookie banners — those pop-ups that appear on practically every webpage demanding you accept their tracking systems — are one of the most consistent l...