The Vergecast

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We unfolded the iPhone Duo

Apple did the one more thing: This week it announced its much-anticipated folding phone. It also announced some surprising and controversial new AI features for Apple Wat

Sep 11
1 h 17 min

Schools are catching onto tech’s playbook

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For years, big tech companies have embedded their products into the classroom whether through Google's Chromebooks or computer science curricula developed by Apple or Mic

Sep 10
36 min

The folding iPhone Duo is finally here | The Vergecast Livestream

#8 trending · Technology

Live from Apple Park, Nilay Patel and Victoria Song join Jake Kastrenakes, Dominic Preston and Cameron Faulkner to talk about the iPhone Duo and the new Apple Watches. We

Sep 9
1 h 00 min

The tech that made a 2-hour marathon possible

At this year's London Marathon, two runners completed the route in under two hours, becoming the first people to ever do so on an official course. It's a feat that Outsid

Sep 8
35 min

AGI is whatever you want it to be

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that AGI is here now.Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of

Sep 4
1 h 46 min

Apple Home rumors, ranked

Apple's big hardware event is coming next week. iPhones are the main draw, but senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has her eyes on the rumors around — what else? — sm

Sep 3
36 min

What’s happening with US data centers?

Data centers have been a staple of Loudoun County since the early dot-com boom, but recent expansions have left some residents wondering how much more the county can take

Sep 2
25 min

What the AI overlords get wrong about being alive

Elizabeth Lopatto recently wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto in her piece, "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live." Today, she joins guest ho

Sep 1
40 min

Can Fairphone survive the US market

Skyrocketing RAM prices put a spotlight on product longevity and repairability, which makes this a particularly apt time for Fairphone to launch its first smartphone sold

Aug 31
25 min

The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

This week Apple announced a Mac Mini made for AI and a Mac Studio made for AI, both with faster M6 and M5 Pro chips made for AI. But that's all an amuse-bouche to Sept. 9

Aug 28
1 h 33 min

How to buy a laptop when everything’s expensive

If, after months of increasingly dire RAMageddon warnings, you just now find yourself in the market for a new laptop... we're here to help. In the latest installment of o

Aug 27
31 min

Meta will cut teens off of Instagram after two hours

Two-hour usage limits, age verification, and a $17.1 billion payout: We're breaking down today's big settlement in Meta's kids online safety trial. Senior policy reporter

Aug 26
17 min

Does smart home tech work in a college dorm?

It can be hard enough to set up smart home tech in a house or an apartment, but what about a dorm room? Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently tested out some smart home tech w

Aug 25
32 min

We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larch

Aug 24
25 min

Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend

Smart phone cameras have been getting better and better at capturing flawless, true-to-life images. But is that what the people really want?David Imel joins Nilay Patel a

Aug 21
1 h 17 min

We ask Gemini and Alexa to track cats and give advice

For better or worse, Amazon Alexa and Google Home's smart voice assistants have been imbued with the powers of generative AI. The promise is that you can use natural lang

Aug 20
39 min

Pixel reviewer roundtable

Pixel reviewers assemble: Senior reviewer Victoria Song leads a Vergecast roundtable with editors Dominic Preston and Cameron Faulkner to discuss the Pixel 11/Pro/Fold an

Aug 19
38 min

A repair shop’s guide to surviving RAMageddon

It feels right now like prices are going up, gadgets are getting worse, and everything is getting harder to buy. Leo Mastrolia, the Digital Doctor and the owner of a repa

Aug 18
23 min

The Digital Doctor will see you now

A few years ago, Leo Mastrolia started a gadget repair shop. Little did he know he’d eventually become known across the internet as The Digital Doctor, and would learn to

Aug 17
37 min

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Have you seen Instagram's new logo? Meta debuted it right before we started recording, so of course David and Nilay needed to talk about it. Then, the hosts turn to Mark

Aug 14
1 h 33 min

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What listeners say

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Everything is political now. Even tech (often especially tech.) Sorry, no one gets to pretend it isn’t. Also, facts exist — actual factual describable reality. And people can have opinions about this! Coincidentally, this all makes any conversation way more interesting, especially if you’re as consistently quick witted, incisive, and entertaining as The Vergecast. Fresh reality, served up hot with a dash of biting humor.

rhodiad · Apr 2025

Great podcast. Sometimes a bit long but it’s good for long commutes to work. They also do a great job reporting facts and not holding back punches when it comes to Trump’s idiotic administration and the rollback this admin is doing to consumer protections.

VamosUnited · Mar 2025

Been listening since the Engadget days. Since David has been hosting the show, the cynicism, sarcasm, and negativity has just ramped up to a point that it is often off putting. The balance between positive/neutral/negative seems to be way out of whack (toward negative). I like technology because it is fun and aspirational. The podcast used to reflect that. Too often now it glosses quickly over positives and spends too much time focusing on negatives and “yea, but”s. The lack of chapters makes skipping over segments much harder. After so many years of listening to this podcast, I’m considering taking a break. Recommendation: if you’re not going to have chapters, maybe keep some of the heavier negative policy stuff to separate Tuesday episodes? Hearing about every proposed wild idea that the administration or Musk has for hours on end is not ideal (for me). Give me reasons to fall in love with tech again and again please.

BumbleBeeTuna555555 · Feb 2025

I like the podcast and the hosts. Taken 1 star off because they take too long to ramble on about non important details — if that’s cut out, then the podcast becomes a manageable <1hour duration.

polin9 · Mar 2025

I agree with other reviews that the new host tends to ramble too much, and he said once that he doesn’t really care what people say. I hope he changes his mind and listens. Still a great show overall, but it would be great if they would bring back the focus + witty humor they used to have.

wjinca · Mar 2025

For as long as the vergecast has existed, I've been a faithful listener. Before scissor vodka was cutting through the night, I was a loyal fan. I was there for every weekly installment of Paul Miller's super consistent segment about the same topic. When the show was Josh Tapolsky yelling "what is happening?" I was a fan. It was the single podcast I listened to for years and years. But ever since this last election cycle has begun the political bias has grown out of control. Our previously intelligent, deep thinking, and over-disclosing (because integrity) band of technology champions has lost all ability to interpret the world without confirmation bias. It's especially disappointing to see Nilay--someone who should be above the psychological tactics of political narrative spins--so bullishly ignore the other side of the political spectrum. Every show is now half good technology banter, half perpetrating ongoing anti-Trump + anti-Elon narratives. It's not the intellectually honest, integrity-driven journalism I loved about the verge. I listen to the verge because I want thoughtful and fun technology conversations. Not politics. And certainly not politics that are one-sided caricaturization of reality. The verge has historically done a great job at giving sober minded praise and critiques of technology. If they could apply that level of objectivity to political discourse, the show would be what it used to be--the best technology podcast on the planet.

dustinwstout · Mar 2025

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