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Back to SearchVersion History: iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 was one of the best iPhones ever — and definitely the most dramatic iPhone ever. It was lost in a bar in California, sold to Gizmodo, and published for the world to see months before its…
Published on 10 hours ago
The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-Tacular
The world runs on RAM, and RAM is harder than ever to get your hands on. What’s happening here? Every year, the Vergecast team spends the holiday season going deep on a single spec or technology, and…
Published on 5 days, 10 hours ago
Version History: Google Glass
Google didn't invent the concept of smart glasses, but it was one of the first companies to actually put them on people's faces. It was a revolution, and also a problem: Google made face computers ex…
Published on 1 week ago
Brendan Carr is a dummy
Åhead of our last Friday episode of 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor: he went in front of Congress and said a bunch of wild things about regulation. So, of course, …
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
Everything is gambling now
Who's going to win the Super Bowl? What about the latest season of Survivor? Or the race to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve? Who will be Portugal's next president? How many times will Elon M…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
A year ago, David and Nilay sat down with Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to make a bunch of confident predictions about 2025. We got them... you know what, never mind. Let's l…
Published on 2 weeks ago
How to vibe-write a country hit
Technically, the Netflix / Warner Bros. news is almost a week old, but what a week it has been! And so, after some follow-up on smart shades and CES, Nilay and David talk through all that’s at stake …
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
2025 year in review
Well, friends, it's been a year. And before we turn the page to 2026 and all the stories of 2025 begin to blur together, we decided to take stock of things. Nilay and David are joined by Wall Street …
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
A very human vision for going all-in on AI
AI models are very good at summarizing things, finding other things like those things, and helping you find those things again. But does that mean we should leave all the work of finding and understa…
Published on 3 weeks ago
It's code red for ChatGPT
First things first: David and Nilay are both having some TV problems, and they need to talk it out. But then they get to the news of the week, including Samsung's new extra-foldy foldable phone, and …
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago