The Vergecast

By The Verge

The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s mo... more

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December 23, 2016 Zuckerberg's smart home, Android Wear, and CES predictions
As the year ends, Nilay, Dieter, Paul, and Ross gather together from across the country via Skype to sit down and bring up what’s been troubling them this week. Nilay can’t stand Mark Zuckerberg’s video about his home AI, Dieter doesn’t know what laptop to take to CES, Paul feels that emoji is too totalitarian, and Ross...is already in holiday mode.
Grab a glass of eggnog (from justthenog.com) and sit beside the fire with your favorite tech luminaries of 2016.
04:11 - Mark Zuckerberg’s “smart home”
14:56 - Rogue One talk (level 4 spoilers 16:51-18:01)
17:59 - laptops
22:42 - Apple, Macbook batteries, and new desktops
26:23 - Emoji consortium
28:52 - AirPods review
34:58 - Android Wear
43:34 - CES 2017 predictions
55:08 - Paul's weekly segment "WebOS still exists, Dieter. Are you sad?"
59:19 - Dieter note

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1h 2min
December 16, 2016 Super Mario Run, Uber's self-driving cars, and Apple's new TV app
Everyone was in New York this week, so we had a jam-packed studio with Nilay, Dieter, and Paul, along with culture reporter Megan Farokhmanesh and transportation reporter Andrew Hawkins. Megan joins us on Vergecast for the first time to talk about what dominates the site this week: Nintendo’s new mobile game Super Mario Run, and the new Star Wars film Rogue One (no spoilers). Meanwhile, Andrew enlightens us on what is going on in the world of self-driving cars: Uber’s autonomous cars in San Francisco, and Google’s new car company Waymo.
There’s a lot more along with that so hit play and drive.
02:21 - Super Mario Run
14:41 - Rogue One
23:16 - Uber / Google self-driving car news with Andrew Hawkins
45:39 - Lightning round (kinda) starts here
45: 48 - Apple TV app
54:48 - AirPods
58:17 - Paul’s weekly segment “Speaking of Things You Can’t Buy”

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1h 5min
December 09, 2016 Fitbit buys Pebble, Windows 10 on ARM, and gadgets aren't dead
Nilay, Dieter, Lauren, and Ashley are back! This week on Vergecast, we talk about Fitbit buying Pebble, the status of the gadget universe, and Microsoft bringing Windows desktop apps to mobile ARM processors. Lots of tech, lots of jokes, here we go.
01:34 - Fitbit / Pebble / wearables
18:23 - Gadgets aren’t dead
33:10 - Windows / ARM
53:23 - Lightning round (Westworld spoilers 53:23–55:10)

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1h 6min
December 02, 2016 Net neutrality, Final Fantasy, Gilmore Girls, and the Spectacles line
Welcome to Vergecast Lonely Paul edition. Dieter and Nilay are out this week, so Paul enlisted some of his colleagues who would never let him down like that and made his own Vergecast that's centered around talking to people not named Dieter or Nilay. Want to learn what AT&T's new DirecTV Now service has to do with net neutrality? Want to figure out why nearly all women and nearly everybody actually loves Gilmore Girls? Want to know if video games are good sometimes? Want to experience what it would be like to stand in line for Snapchat Spectacles but not actually purchase Spectacles because you hate lines? Then you'll probably love what we've done here.
2:39 – Interview with T.C. Sottek on net neutrality
33:24 – Interview with Kaitlyn Tiffany on Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
52:38 – Interview with Andrew Webster on Pokemon Sun and Moon and Final Fantasy XV
1:06:30 – Interview with Ashley Carman live at the Snapchat Spectacles line in NYC

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1h 23min
November 18, 2016 Fake news, Touchbar, and the Surface Studio
The tech review season continues this week with reviews of the Macbook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft’s Surface Studio, and even an actual book that Apple released. This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, and Dieter give an overview of these products along with the topic of the week (or the month, or maybe the year): the problem of social media dealing with fake news articles that go viral. Paul sits down with Casey Newton, Silicon Valley editor at The Verge to discuss it all.
00:48 - Fake news on social networks
05:44 - Interview with Casey Newton
33:57 - Macbook Pro with Touchbar review
39:56 - Apple’s book Designed by Apple in California
44:25 - Apple TV
50:20 - Microsoft’s Surface Studio review
57:54 - PS4 Pro
1:02:52 - NES Classic

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1h 7min
November 11, 2016 Daydream, Playstation Pro, Snapchat, and Instagram
Here we are, a few days after the election. With the world still adjusting to the future, we thought we’d give you a break from it all and briefly talk about what we know best: the future of technology. This week we have reviews for the Playstation 4 Pro and Google Daydream, the continuing saga of adapting to a plug drought, and Snapchat’s new Spectacles that were released to the public this week.
So sit back, relax, (unless you are driving... if you’re driving and listening to this please focus on the road), and let us fill you in with the Verge updates you may have missed this week.

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59min
November 04, 2016 Verge turns 5, Google Home, and Assistant
Happy Vergecast day! Look we’ve got a new logo!
This week, in honor of The Verge’s fifth anniversary and the redesign of the website, we start off the show by giving some behind-the-scenes details on the new things you see on the site and things we’ve changed.
But don’t worry, we still have that weekly news you all subscribe for. Nilay, Dieter, Paul, and Dan discuss using the Google Home speaker and how it works with the Google Assistant. Also, we have reviews of the 13-inch Macbook Pro (yeah the one without the Touch Bar), Paul’s weekly segment “Cookie Pods,” and some great ad reads in between.
01:49 - The Verge turns 5
15:58 - Google Home
27:49 - Google Assistant
40:35 - Macbook Pro
1:06:27 - Paul’s weekly segment “Cookie Pods”
We want to thank the listeners, new and old, for tuning in each and giving feedback on the show, we greatly appreciate it.
A quote from Nilay on this week’s episode:
“We launched The Verge basically on the back of this podcast. This podcast when Paul and I were doing it with Josh as the Engadget podcast was so popular that we could fucking leave and start a new podcast, our listeners came with us, and we were able to launch This Is My Next and then The Verge so it’s wild that we’ve done it for five years.”

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1h 14min
October 28, 2016 Macbook Pro, Surface Studio, and the events surrounding
This week is a special episode of The Vergecast. After attending the Apple event, Nilay and Dieter sit down in San Francisco together and talk about the newest product announcements from Cupertino.
Let us not forget, Microsoft also announced new computers this week! We invited an old friend of the show, senior editor Vlad Savov, to help cover it all.
01:27 - Microsoft event/Surface Studio
24:00 - Apple Mac event
28:25 - Macbook Pro
32:27 - Touchbar
41:01 - Specs
52:39 - Apple TV app

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1h 6min
October 21, 2016 Pixel, Nintendo Switch, and new MacBook Pros
This week at The Verge has been a busy one! Reviews for Google’s Pixel phone are out, Chinese tech firm LeEco just announced a plethora of new products coming to the US, Nintendo finally showed us new hardware for their games, and Apple is teasing a new Mac event for next week. Even Tesla had a few things to say.
Nilay, Dieter, Paul, and Jordan cover it all on this week’s Vergecast.
02:27 - Google Pixel review
24:06 - Masterclass ad
27:24 - Tesla
39:27 - Hello Fresh ad
41:26 - LeEco
54:21 - Nintendo Switch
59:27 - Apple’s upcoming Mac event

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1h 8min
October 14, 2016 Galaxy Note 7s don’t explode, they sizzle
This week on Vergecast, we have the exclusive interview with our tech and transportation reporter Jordan Golson, who has been reporting nonstop on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle. Nilay, Lauren, and Paul welcome Jordan to the show to talk about the recent events regarding Samsung, as well as what it means for competitors and the tech ecosystem.
02:42 - Samsung recall
22:48 - Masterclass ad
27:07 - Google Pixel
36:44 - iOS10
37:12 - Samsung vs. Apple
50:15 - Graphicstock ad
51:24 - Ashley’s weekly segment “A Genuine Gadget Connection”
55:26 - Amazon Unlimited Music and the various tech ecosystems

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1h 9min

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