The Vergecast
By The Verge
The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
Episodes (7)
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Casey Neistat's guide to posting every day
Casey Neistat, the pioneer of daily vlogging, reveals that his 800-day streak wasn't driven by a grand strategy but by panic—fleeing from a startup distraction by forcing himself to create daily content. What began as a desperate act of self-discipline became
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote defied all expectations, not for innovation, but for its chaotic structure and strategic pivot toward AI. Instead of the predictable, OS-by-OS rollout, Apple announced all operating systems simultaneously—without naming them—framing t
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How Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs wasn't born a visionary leader—he was forged in failure. The Vergecast explores Jeff Kane's new book, *Steve Jobs in Exile*, which reveals that the man who would later revolutionize technology spent over a decade after being ousted from Apple as a b
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Your biggest questions from Apple's WWDC
Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote broke from tradition not just in format, but in spirit—delivering raw, unpolished live demos that proved the company had finally shipped working AI features. David Pierce and Nilay Patel dissect the shift from Apple’s past infomercial
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YouTube is taking over Hollywood
YouTube is no longer just a platform for short-form content—it's becoming the new pipeline to Hollywood, with creators like Kane Parsons and the Falupu brothers turning viral YouTube success into theatrical blockbusters. The rise of films like Backrooms, Obses
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# The **epic** story of Markdown
Markdown, the humble text formatting system born from a blogger's frustration with HTML, has quietly become the secret backbone of the modern digital world. John Gruber, its creator, never imagined his simple solution for writing blog posts—using plain text wi
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The Mythos mess and your AI questions, answered
The Vergecast dives into the escalating crisis between Anthropic and the U.S. government over the release of its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, which was abruptly banned by a government export control directive just hours after its public announcement. In a dra
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