Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRing's adorable surveillance hellscape
Did you see Ring's Super Bowl ad and see happy puppies reunited with their owners? Or did you see the seeds of a complete, always-on surveillance nig…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Could the Trump Phone be a good phone?
The Trump Phone is real! Ish! The Verge’s Dom Preston has seen a T1 on a video call, that we can say for sure. Dom joins the show to explain what’s n…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
How Epstein became a tech influencer
A new tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails makes one thing painfully clear: Epstein was a central figure in the lives of a lot of big names in tech, a…
5 months ago
Millions of books died so Claude could live
AI companies want all the data, everywhere, to make their models bigger and better. That means a lot of questions about piracy and copyright, and at …
5 months ago
Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy
We've been covering what's happening in Minnesota, and the killing of Alex Pretti, all week on The Verge. To begin this episode, Nilay explains why —…
5 months, 1 week ago
Truth and AI in Minneapolis
Like so many others, we’re still reeling from the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. To open the show, we talk with Adi Robertson about how video…
5 months, 1 week ago
The end of the Sony era in TVs
Nilay owns a Sony TV. He loves his Sony TV, and he's a little sad that it appears this era of Sony TVs is ending. He and David talk through the news …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How BYD beat Tesla
There’s a new biggest name in EVs, and if you live in the US, you pretty much can’t buy one. But before we get to that, we have some stuff to catch u…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Siri is a Gemini
Nearly two years ago, Apple showed off what an AI-powered Siri might do. That Siri never materialized, but thanks to a deal with Google for its Gemin…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How Lego’s Smart Brick works
January brings two things in Vergecast-land: CES, and New Years' Resolutions. We start this episode with a dive into the story of this year's biggest…
5 months, 3 weeks ago