Today on the flagship podcast of endlessly looping sounds: 02:33 - David Pierce dives into one piece of music that has taken over "North Sea TikTok" 20:45 - Alex Cranz joins the show to preview new TV shows coming to streaming in 2024, and gives predictions about which streaming service will come out on top this year. 55:36 - This week's Vergecast Hotline question about E Ink at CES. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com, or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz follow up on all the rest of the gadgets and tech seen at CES 2024. Further reading: CES 2024: all the TVs, laptops, smart home gear, and more from the show floor The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you Rabbit sells out 10,000 units of its R1 pocket AI companion in one day Samsungs Ballie robot is now a projector that follows you around Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI Wi-Fi 7 certificatio...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz are discuss all the things with screens announced at CES 2024. Further reading: Ive looked through LGs new transparent OLED TV and seen something special Samsungs got its own transparent display. Samsungs new OLED TV could make annoying glare a thing of the past Samsung finally puts the TV at the heart of its smart home The Frame has become such a hit that Samsung is making a speaker version Intels new 14th Gen mobile processors are here for ...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz kick off the new year with a preview of what we're excited to see at CES 2024 next week, but not before a brief discussion on copyright, the open web, and the first movements of a battle between The New York Times and OpenAI. Further reading: The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement Heres how major media companies are handling OpenAI. Read the lawsuit! For the second year in a row, Sony wont have new TVs at CES ...
Jan 05, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verges Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz start the final show of 2023 with some chat about the state of USB-C: the ups and downs of charging gadgets, the ubiquity of one cable, and what the future looks like for gadgets with ports. The crew competes in a few rounds of USB-C Price is Right, a game we completely made up to show how confusing USB-C and its specs can be. Nilay, David, and Alex each play for a Vergecast listener to win an awesome Verge swag basket from our merch store. Ch...
Dec 23, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Apple pulling the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its website, the potential Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount merger, and what the biggest stories were on The Verge Dot Com. Further reading: Apple to pull Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 this week due to ITC ban Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban Why the Apple Watch is being banned and how Apple can avoid it Masimo CEO thinks Apple cant code its way out of the W...
Dec 22, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple responding to Beeper's iMessage for Android and the various other text-based platform news from this week. Sean Hollister joins the show to discuss his time covering the Epic v Google trial, and what we learned from it all. Further reading: The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge Beeper vs. iMessage is a fight about how tech works and who's really in charge Apple responds to Beepers iMessage for Android: We took s...
Dec 15, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of good tweets: 03:40 - The Verges William Poor goes on a vintage tech odyssey in the hopes of future-proofing his familys heirloom Mac Classic. 28:35 - David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Nilay Patel discuss why they spent so much time on Twitter for so many years. The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge How Twitter broke the news Extremely softcore: the old Twitter was an idealists workplace and a naive business The great tweet archive Twitter was a haras...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Dan Seifert discuss Google Gemini's attempt to compete with ChatGPT, Beeper Mini bringing iMessage to Android, and shakeups in the podcast industry, and much more. Further reading: Welcome to hell, Elon has now been cited in a Supreme Court brief. Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 Googles Gemini AI model now powers the Bard chatbot Googles Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro and eventually to Android Apple joins A...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's David Pierce, Victoria Song, Dan Seifert, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy answer questions from the Vergecast Hotline about what to buy for your loved ones this holiday season. Keep emailing us at vergecast@theverge.com or leave a voicemail at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss the Tesla Cybertruck event, the latest with OpenAI leadership, and what Elon Musk and Bob Iger said at Dealbook Summit 2023. Getting close but not too close to the Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck delivery event: Elon Musk hands over the first trucks to customers Elon Musk tells advertisers: Go fuck yourself Sam Altman is back, so whats next for OpenAI and ChatGPT? Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI ChatGPT is...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of multi-drone camera setups: 03:19 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with Planet Earth III producer Alex Walters and director Theo Webb about the gear used to make the latest nature documentary series. 30:13- Netflix's Pat Flemming joins the show to discuss how Netflix figures out what to show when you open the app, and how to keep you coming back. 1:20:29 -The Verge's publisher Helen Havlak and editor-in-chief Nilay Patel join the show to answer this week's hotline...
Nov 29, 2023•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress. Further reading: Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT? Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI OpenAIs new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO Emmett Shear named new CEO of OpenAI by board Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode three of our video game miniseries, The Verge's David Pierce and Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante discuss the state of the industry's blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Fortnite, and others and what they signal for the future of gaming. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple announcing it will support RCS next year, AI news that came out of Microsoft Ignite, YouTube's new policy on deepfakes, and much more. Further reading: Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage Meta will fight the EU over regulating Messenger Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsofts IT pro event Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete wi...
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of machine learning-based recommendation systems: 03:31 - The Verges David Pierce chats with Spotifys co-president and chief product officer Gustav Sderstrm about recommendations, audiobooks, app design, what Spotify wants to be, and whether its possible to do it all well. Spotify - The Verge 44:08 - Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu. Streaming - The Verge 1:10:28 - Chris Welch j...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode two of our gaming mini series, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante about the obstacles around both preserving and emulating video games from discontinued hardware. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss the debut of Humane's AI Pin, OpenAI's DevDay, GPT-4 updates, and more. Further reading: Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane's AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable All the news from OpenAIs DevDay conference OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT OpenAI wants to be the App Store of AI ChatGPT subscribers may get...
Nov 10, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of anti-steering provisions: 02:57- The Verge's David Pierce and Makena Kelly discuss Epic v. Google, a trial about the future of app stores. The Epic v. Google trial may come down to simple v. complicated Epic v. Google: a battle over Fortnite fees goes to court 28:49 - Liz Lopatto joins the show to detail her experience covering the Sam Bankman-Fried trial from start to finish. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty of fraud Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial a...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the first episode of our series about the future of gaming, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Polygon's Chris Plante and Russ Frushtick about handheld game consoles. Is this portable, all-in-one form factor where all of gaming is headed? Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 06, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the takeaways from Apple's Mac event, the problem with SEO on the internet, streaming news, and much more. Further reading: Apple Scary Fast Mac launch event: the 4 biggest announcements Goodbye, Touch Bar, you held incredible promise Heres what Apple means when it says its event was shot on iPhone Amanda Chicago Lewis excellent piece about the web SEO built Some thoughts about The Verge article on SEO Sundar Pichai argues in court th...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of spec bumps: 02:21 - The Verges David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Dan Seifert discuss the announcements from Apples Scary Fast Mac event. Apples Scary Fast Mac event: all the news from Apples online keynote 27:56 - Becca Farsace joins the show to share her thoughts on smartphone photography in 2023, and if the Pro branding can live up to its name. iPhone 15 Pro Max camera: 1000 photos later, its still missing something 1,000 photos with the Pixel 8 Pro: AI, UI, and Pr...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of network-attached storage: This is the fourth in our four-part series all about connectivity. This week we're talking about software: how software connects us, how we connect to software, and how software connects to other software. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 30, 2023•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the next Apple event, a Twitter successor, and Windows Phone regrets. Further reading: Apple plans Scary Fast product event just before Halloween Apples future AirPods roadmap just leaked, and big changes are coming Apple TV Plus is getting a price hike and other Apple subscriptions are, too The Apple Watchs double tap points at a new way to use wearables iOS 17.2 Beta Introduces Journal App - MacRumors Metas Threads app has almost 10...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz dedicate the show to talk about their feelings. The crew answer a bunch of questions from listeners about The Vergecast, The Verge website, and the future of it all. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode three of our connectivity mini series, The Verge's David Pierce explores the idea of POSSE and PESOS, two syndication models for posting on the internet that don't rely on a single platform. Buckle in, it gets nerdy. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 23, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss a whole bunch of tech news from this week a new Apple Pencil, the latest Cybertruck confusion, streaming updates, and more. Further reading: Apple Pencil joins the iPad confusion zone Apple announces entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C charging Elgatos new $279.99 Prompter is an all-in-one teleprompter and extra monitor Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64 OnePlus Open review: right size, wrong price Elon Musk says we dug our own grave...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the flagship podcast of glassholes: The Verges David Pierce chats with Victoria Song about her experience using the new Ray-Ban smart glasses from Meta. Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses hands-on: in pursuit of content The Verges Sean Hollister and iFixits Kyle Wiens join the show to discuss the latest legislation in the right to repair and whats next for the future of fixing your own gadgets. Right-to-repair is now the law in California The Verges Nathan Edwards answers this weeks Vergecast H...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode two of our connectivity mini series, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Eric Migicovsky co-founder of Beeper. Beeper is a universal messaging app trying to take all your messages from all your apps and put them in one place. Is this the future of chat? Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 16, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the Meta Quest 3 review, Google gadgets, and Threads continuing to compete with X. Chris Welch joins the show to discuss the result of Sonos' legal battle with Google. Further reading: Google Pixel Watch 2 review: better battery, better watch Pixel 8 and 8 Pro review: in Google we trust? WordPress now offers official support for ActivityPub Threads is getting an edit button and you dont have to pay for it @mosseri Were not anti-news A...
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