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  • A gadget lover's guide to the great outdoors

    5:00am By The Verge
    The Verge's Thomas Ricker joins the show with an update on his question to live the #vanlife. He shares stories about Starlink Mini, the new Peak Design backpack everyone loves, converting a Sprinter van to a mobile apartment, and more. Then, The Verge's Andru…
  • Our biggest stories and favorite things of 2024

    Fri 5:00am By The Verge
    2024 is almost over, somehow. So we gathered a bunch of our Verge colleagues and told them each to tell us three things from the year: the biggest story, their favorite new tech thing, and their favorite new non-tech thing. We got a collection of big stories,…
  • The government's plan to break up Google

    Nov 22, 2024, 6:14 am By The Verge
    The Verge's Lauren Feiner joins Nilay and David to talk about the US government's proposal in its search antitrust case against Google. They discuss the future of Chrome, what a white-label search engine might look like, and how a Trump administration might…
  • If Netflix can't make live work, can anyone?

    Nov 19, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Richard Lawler joins the show to chat about the Tyson / Paul fight, and more importantly the fact that Netflix didn't seem to be able to keep up. As live sports — and TV in general — move toward streaming, are even the biggest names in tech ready for…
  • Making human music in an AI world

    Nov 17, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    For the third episode in our series about the future of music, we talk with Ge Wang. Ge is a professor at Stanford, a co-founder of Smule, the conductor of Stanford’s laptop orchestra, and has been at the center of technology and artistry for most of his…
  • Bluesky's quest to be the next Twitter

    Nov 15, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay and David talk about the future of social, in light of Bluesky's recent surge in growth. Threads is huge, Bluesky is ascendent, Mastodon is... around, but can any of them become the next Twitter? Is that even the goal? After that, Kylie Robison joins the…
  • Smart sleep is worth the cost

    Nov 12, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    On today's show: sleep gadgets, AI DJs, and sneaky TVs. Victoria Song joins the show to talk about her experiences with the Eight Sleep mattress pad, the Oura Ring 4, and other sleep gadgets. Can you really measure your way to a better night of sleep? After…
  • Auto-Tune always and forever

    Nov 10, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    For the second episode in our three-part miniseries about the future of music, Charlie Harding, a music journalist and co-host of the Switched on Pop podcast, joins the show to tell the story of Auto-Tune. He walks us through how a simple plugin became such a…
  • The PS5 Pro made us sit closer to the screen

    Nov 8, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay and David talk about the election, and how The Vergecast plans to cover and talk about the next four years of the Trump administration. But only for a minute. Then it's onto our reviews of the new Mac Mini and MacBook Pro, which reset Apple's desktop and…
  • Alexa at 10: Amazon's assistant is a winner and a failure

    Nov 5, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    November 6th marks 10 years to the day since Amazon surprise-launched a new, cylindrical device called the Echo. It introduced the world to smart speakers, and to the idea that you might be able to get stuff done just by shouting aloud in your living room. But…
  • Your favorite musician's favorite TikTok show

    5:00am By The Verge
    For the first episode in our three-part miniseries on the future of music, we tell the story of Track Star, a music game show that has become a viral hit on TikTok and Instagram. Jack Coyne, the show's friendly host, tells us how Track Star came to be, why the…
  • The AI garage door mystery

    Nov 1, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay and David discuss a big week in AI news, including the new web search features in ChatGPT and the reporting that Meta is working on something very similar. They also briefly talk about this quarter's tech earnings, and what they say about the ways AI is…
  • Two possible futures for AI

    Oct 29, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about the recent dueling AI blog posts from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. What do these CEOs think the future of AI looks like? Then, Will Poor tells us the story of ShakeAlert, an earthquake alert…
  • The confusing state of Apple Intelligence

    Oct 25, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay, David, and Richard Lawler talk about all of the coming Apple gadgets and software, from the new iPad Mini to the upcoming week of Mac announcements to the many flavors of iOS and Apple Intelligence heading to a device near you soon. Then they talk about…
  • AirPods are good for your (hearing) health

    Oct 22, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to talk about her year of testing smart rings, and which of the many new options is the one you should buy. Then Chris Welch takes us through his testing of the new hearing health features for Apple's AirPods, including…
  • The tech YouTuber who opened a coffee shop

    Oct 20, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a YouTuber and creator, the face of the TheUnlockr channel, reviewing phones and testing ebikes and explaining how food smokers really work. By night and morning and every single…
  • The future of the Kindle with Panos Panay

    Oct 18, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay and David talk about the week in gadget news, after scoring their predictions on last week's Tesla event. (Spoiler alert: nobody did very well.) They talk about the new iPad Mini, the new Sonos Ace Ultra soundbar, and the new Analogue N64 emulator. Then…
  • They're called "Podcasts"

    Oct 15, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Before a podcast was a “podcast,” it was… well, it wasn’t really much of anything. It was in 2004, though, that many of the earliest names in on-demand audio began to smush “iPod” and “broadcast” into the word we’ve come to know as the way we…
  • The putt-putt champions of the internet

    Oct 13, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Danny and Steven Sanicki are twins, competitive golfers, and suddenly the biggest names in online mini golf. They started making mini golf content on TikTok about a year ago, and it took off; since then they've been trying to ride the viral wave and also turn…
  • The Google breakup is looming

    Oct 11, 2024, 7:08 am By The Verge
    Nilay and David make some predictions about Thursday evening’s Tesla event — which you’ve already seen, but we haven’t! Then they talk about the week’s gadget news, from Nintendo’s new Alarmo alarm clock to Apple’s upcoming iPads and Macs. Then…
  • AI is fixing — and ruining – our photos

    Oct 8, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    For this full-on “what is a photo” episode, we start by chatting with Halide developers Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan De With about what it means to build a camera app in 2024 — and what it means to try and accurately capture a photo. Then The Verge’s…
  • Get ready to meet your AI best friend

    Oct 4, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay, Alex, and David discuss Microsoft's new Copilot announcements, and the friendlier face the company is trying to put on its chatbot. They also wonder: what, exactly, is an AI companion supposed to do for you, and how is it supposed to do it? They then…
  • Your front door is the key to the smart home

    Oct 1, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to discuss a bunch of updates in the smart home world, including what's new from Google Home and in iOS 18, plus some big news in the world of smart locks and video doorbells. Then, The Verge's Chris Welch…
  • The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter

    Sep 29, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Michael Sayman, the creator of a viral new app called SocialAI, joins the show to discuss why he built a social network where you're the only human around. He tells us how he thinks about AI interfaces, what's next for ChatGPT and other chatbots, and why…
  • Meta's new smart glasses look like the future

    Sep 27, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    The Verge's Alex Heath joins Nilay, Alex, and David to talk about all the announcements coming out of Meta Connect: the impressive (and expensive) Orion glasses, the new features for the Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, and lots and lots of new AI. Then they discuss the…
  • They think they’re building God

    Sep 24, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about OpenAI’s new model, o1, and what this new “reasoning” model says about the state of the art in AI — and what AI companies are willing to put up with in the name of building God. Then, Gaby Del Valle and Adi…
  • The chatbot becomes the teacher

    Sep 22, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    For the first episode in our new miniseries about the impact of AI in our everyday lives, we chat with Steven Johnson, a longtime author who has spent the last couple of years at Google working on an AI research and note-taking tool called NotebookLM. We talk…
  • You’re cute no matter what phone you have

    Sep 20, 2024, 5:00 am By The Verge
    Nilay, Alex, and David are joined by Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to talk about this year’s iPhone – and Joannabot, the AI chatbot Joanna made to help you make buying decisions. They also answer some questions about the new phones as Apple…
  • Reviewing the iPhone 16

    Sep 18, 2024, 8:00 am By The Verge
    We've finally finished testing, scoring, and reviewing Apple's new gear for the fall. On this episode we talk through our reviews of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, the Apple Watch 10, and the AirPods 4, to see whether they're real upgrades and whether they're worth…
  • The great Evernote reboot

    Sep 15, 2024, 9:00 am By The Verge
    Peak Evernote was roughly a decade ago. Since then, the product has often felt stagnant (or worse), the company churned through executives and business plans, and it seemed like Evernote was slowly turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not even forgotten, just…