Hosted by Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz, Vergecast is the only podcast you need to make sense of the week in tech news. The weekly show gives an irreverent and informative look at what's happening right now (and next) in the world of technology and gadgets. Subscribe here.
Delta’s 10-year journey to the top of the App Store
On The Vergecast: the rise of the emulator, the case for voice notes, and the point of AI gadgets.
A speedrunner’s quest to (re)build the perfect N64 controller
On The Vergecast: AI gadgets, iPads, and antitrust
On The Vergecast: the state and future of AI gadgets, the next iPads, and the billion-dollar AI race.
Phones are the ultimate AI gadget
Early bird pricing starts at $399 via Indiegogo, with shipments expected to start in May. It’s advertised as the first device with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 that’s designed to chase the booming gaming handheld market.
There are Android gamers out there, right? We’ve been asking you to email The Vergecast about your Android gaming life, let us know!
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Anyone want to buy TikTok?
On this episode of The Vergecast: the $100 billion sale coming soon, the Rabbit R1, Tesla earnings, and more.
Congress takes on TikTok, privacy, and AI
Emulators are taking over the App Store
On The Vergecast: what Delta means for the future of the iPhone, Google’s big reorg, Mini LEDs, and more.
The internet really is a series of tubes
On The Vergecast: the vast world of undersea cables and the maybe upgrade coming to your PC.
The good, the bad, and the Humane Pin
The TikTok ban and the iPhone monopoly
How much MacBook is enough MacBook?
On The Vergecast: MacBook RAM, TikTok ban, and the only printer you’ll ever need.
A better keyboard than QWERTY
Due to a series of vacations and illnesses this week, we decided that instead of bringing you a Vergecast today, we’d play you an episode of Power User, the new show from our friend Taylor Lorenz and our friends at the Vox Media Podcast Network. Taylor and I chatted for a few minutes about podcasts, TikTok bans, and more, and then we rolled the tape on her first episode.
We’ll be back next week, and hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did. Rock and roll.
AI headphones and clicky phone keys
Apple’s antitrust fight begins
On The Vergecast: the case against Apple as a monopoly, how super apps became part of an antitrust fight, and why your Apple Watch can’t hang on Android.
DoorDash, Uber Eats — and Tony
Are we really going to ban TikTok?
On The Vergecast: what we do and don’t know about TikTok, why all the other apps are trying to be TikTok, and the photo scandal rocking the royals.
The 2024 Vergecast streaming draft
What are the good streaming services? Why does Alex Cranz think Netflix is going to go away? What is Mubi, anyway? All the big questions on this episode of The Vergecast.
Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air
On The Vergecast: a requiem for the wedge, Big Tech’s future in the EU, the Elon Musk / OpenAI lawsuit, and much more.
AI gadgets, bendy phones, and more from MWC
On The Vergecast: some big ideas about wearables, Android phones, and why your life might need a transparent laptop.
How smart is the smart kitchen, really?
For part two of our Vergecast smart kitchen series, we let the kitchen do the cooking. Chaos ensues.
The Apple Car crash
Tales of a shopping influencer
The smart kitchen is a great idea — and a strange reality
The AIs are officially out of control
The right to repair — and play games anywhere
The shine comes off the Vision Pro
Passkeys might really kill passwords
Disney’s big bets on sports, streaming, and Fortnite
How AI will change phones — and the whole internet
At one point during this episode, as we discuss our Vision Pro review — and the reaction we’ve seen from around the web — Nilay begins to debate how he’s scored every Apple product ever. It’s that kind of Vergecast, y’all. And then, as TikTok loses a key music partner and foists shopping on users everywhere, we wonder: is it time to call the top on TikTok?
The Vision Pro is not an easy thing to review, or explain, or score. But Nilay had to do all those things. So about 24 hours before the whole thing went live, we sat Nilay down in the studio to hash this thing out once and for all. What is the Vision Pro good at? What’s it for? Why is it so expensive? What’s the deal with the eyes? And most importantly... is it good?
In this episode, we get our first glimpse of Nilay’s fabulously lucrative “ alternate app marketplace” idea, we have a lot of thoughts about whether Netflix is better than cable or is just cable again, and all expose ourselves as thoroughly un-knowledgeable about wrestling. But we do know all about Pokemon with guns.
After 40 years, the Mac line is as strong and successful as ever — does it have another four decades to go? And in 2064, will we be talking about the Vision Pro launch the same way we talk about the Macintosh?
Our good friend Walt Mossberg has some thoughts. Then YouTuber and author Ali Abdaal talks about his book, “ Feel Good Productivity,” and why my to-do app habit is really not helping me get anything done. Click here to listen in your preferred podcast app.
Big gadget week! The Vision Pro is up for pre-order (are you getting one?), so we talked about everyone’s experience so far and all the things we still don’t know. Then we dig into Samsung’s new S24 lineup, the latest on the Apple Watch ban, and what it means to make a slow-mo video when there’s no slow-mo video to make it from.
Netflix: probably a winner in 2024. Disney Plus: rough times ahead. Peacock? Paramount Plus? Will they even exist in 12 months? Alex Cranz and I get to the bottom of this year’s streaming wars, and also maybe talk E Ink a little. But first: you know that creepy sound on TikTok videos about the North Sea? We have a story for you about that.
Rabbit, Ballie, and the other gadgets of CES 2024
On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk gadgets and cars and car gadgets and gadget cars.
The TVs, monitors, and laptops of CES 2024
Today on The Vergecast, it’s screens all the way down.
AI gadgets are about to be everywhere. But who owns the AI, and who should benefit when you use it? Who gets paid when my fridge recommends a recipe, is really the question I’m asking. We get into the battle between The New York Times and OpenAI, get excited about what’s coming at CES, and wonder about what happens when your movie theater projector just can’t hang anymore.