The Vergecast

2023's biggest tech stories

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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 can’t code its way out of the Watch ban.
  • Apple Watch ban: everything you need to know
  • Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream
  • Apple reportedly plans Vision Pro launch by February
  • Apple’s immersive next-gen CarPlay will start with Porsche and Aston Martin
  • Bird’s goose is cooked.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount in discussions for a max merger
  • Adobe explains why it abandoned the Figma deal
  • Adobe won’t compromise on UK’s attempt to block Figma merger
  • Peloton’s oldest bike tablet will be cut off from classes in a few months
  • Peloton’s app now pairs with third-party treadmills for some subscribers
  • Inside Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter
  • Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024
  • Mark Zuckerberg agrees to Elon Musk cage match challenge
  • Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
  • I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial and his parents lost
  • Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network to give any gadget free low speed data
  • Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches on November 15th for $199.99
  • Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
  • OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
  • FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
  • Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot
  • iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max in titanium: price, features, and release date 
  • This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a lift-to-wake controller
  • Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
  • The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
  • Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human
  • SodaStream is a bad deal, and modding your own is better
  • Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google?


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