The Vergecast

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 and David Pierce 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.

A quest for the best headphone mics

Jul 08, 2025·66 mins

On this episode of The Vergecast, we kick off Hot Girl Vergecast Summer with a classic Vergecast segment: the mic test. Guest host Victoria Song is joined by Vergecast producers Andru…

The movie and TV tech we actually want to use

Jul 01, 2025·93 mins

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies and on TV. Some of that tech is…

What Meta and Anthropic really won in court

Jun 27, 2025·106 mins

, The Verge's Adi Roberston joins the show to talk about two important AI lawsuits that were both decided this week

Tesla's robotaxi reality check

Jun 24, 2025·75 mins

The Verge's Andy Hawkins joins the show to explain what, exactly, Elon Musk and co. launched, and what it says about the state of the self-driving revolution

Truth, lies, and the Trump Phone

Jun 20, 2025·106 mins

David and Jake chat with The Verge's Dominic Preston about what we know about Trump Mobile and the T1 Phone

Life with the Nintendo Switch 2

Jun 17, 2025·79 mins

It's a small miracle that a bunch of us managed to get our heads out of Mario Kart World long enough to make a show about the Switch 2.

Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games

Jun 13, 2025·123 mins

Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes talk about the Switch 2 launch, and the news that Microsoft and Asus are building Xbox handhelds

Liquid Glass, Spotlight, and the rest of WWDC 2025

Jun 10, 2025·125 mins

Nilay and David are joined by The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson to talk about all the news of WWDC

Previewing Apple's 2025 WWDC

Jun 06, 2025·98 mins

Nilay, David, and Joanna Stern spend time going through what they expect to see at WWDC

One company's quest for the perfect charger

Jun 03, 2025·69 mins

TwelveSouth founder Andrew Green joins the show to talk about how his company developed its newest product, the PowerCord

Can a redesign save Apple's software?

May 30, 2025·98 mins

It's a slowish news week ahead of some very busy news weeks, so of course Nilay and David start the show with a long discussion about party speakers. Eventually, they get…

Inside the Meta monopoly trial

May 27, 2025·83 mins

The Verge’s Lauren Feiner tells us about what she’s learned from two all-important monopoly trials.

OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget

May 23, 2025·113 mins

Nilay, David, and The Verge's Alex Heath talk about the news that OpenAI and Jony Ive are teaming up to build... something.

The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready

May 20, 2025·72 mins

The Verge's Allison Johnson joins to talk about her review of the new Razr Ultra, the new-look Android 16, and why she thinks we're getting ever closer to a true flip…

HBO's no good very bad rebrand

May 16, 2025·117 mins

Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes dig into the monumentally silly thinking behind Warner Bros. Discovery re-re-naming its streaming service HBO Max

A buggy Sonos mystery

May 13, 2025·87 mins

The Verge's Will Poor recently came home from vacation and discovered he had an insect problem

Why Apple is trying to save Google

May 09, 2025·105 mins

The Verge's Richard Lawler joins the show to talk about the Google search trial, in which Eddy Cue argued that Google should be allowed to keep paying Apple gobs of money.

The AI wearables are always listening

May 06, 2025·79 mins

The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about a new genre of gadget, which both she and David have been testing a lot: the AI-powered, always-on voice recorder

How Apple lost control of the App Store

May 02, 2025·111 mins

Everywhere you look, antitrust fights have the potential to reshape the tech industry

The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car

Apr 29, 2025·88 mins

Tim Stevens joins the show to talk about his story about the Slate Truck, an ultra-minimal electric vehicle that has almost no features to speak of

Everybody wants to buy Chrome

Apr 25, 2025·111 mins

Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest

How to keep your data safe when you travel

Apr 22, 2025·70 mins

The Verge’s Gaby del Valle joins the show to explain how worried you need to be about your digital data when you cross borders

Big Tech is back on trial

Apr 18, 2025·115 mins

Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to talk about some big news in tech regulation

The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft

Apr 15, 2025·87 mins

It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars

How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos

Apr 11, 2025·94 mins

Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes run down the latest tariff news, the uncertain future facing tech companies of all sizes, and what we're learning so far about how they're…

Switch 2: the good news and bad news

Apr 08, 2025·80 mins

The Verge's Ash Parrish got to play with the new Nintendo Switch 2

How tariffs will change your gadgets

Apr 04, 2025·111 mins

Tuneshine creator Tobias Butler explains how tariffs affect the way hardware companies do business — and how they're navigating the current uncertainty.

Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone

Apr 01, 2025·84 mins

The Verge's Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about the whole trend of minimalist smartphones, and to figure out which features a smartphone absolutely needs, and which ones we could…

OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem

Mar 28, 2025·124 mins

The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to discuss everything happening at OpenAI: the company launched a new image generator inside of ChatGPT, and it immediately became both a huge hit…

How Roomba got stuck

Mar 25, 2025·98 mins

The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to chart the rise and fall of the Roomba, the robot vacuum that practically invented the category and yet seems to have been…

Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech

Mar 21, 2025·114 mins

The Verge's Lauren Feiner talks us through some of the latest in tech regulation.

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