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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 most important technology news. And Monday through Thursday, 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.

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Meta and Snap battle for your face

Hotline: Folding phones in cars, EVs in Mexico

DLSS 5 explained, with Linus Tech Tips

Googlebooks are coming for your Mac

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro's camera

Apple's new iPhones and Watches are better than the last ones

Your AI apocalypse questions, answered

Is social media driving teen mental health issues?

Who is the $1,059 Steam VR headset for?

We unfolded the iPhone Duo

Schools are catching onto tech’s playbook

The folding iPhone Duo is finally here | The Vergecast Livestream

The tech that made a 2-hour marathon possible

AGI is whatever you want it to be

Apple Home rumors, ranked

What’s happening with US data centers?

What the AI overlords get wrong about being alive

Can Fairphone survive the US market

The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

How to buy a laptop when everything’s expensive

Meta will cut teens off of Instagram after two hours

Does smart home tech work in a college dorm?

We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend

We ask Gemini and Alexa to track cats and give advice

Pixel reviewer roundtable

A repair shop’s guide to surviving RAMageddon

The Digital Doctor will see you now

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Should you let a robot mow your lawn?

Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5: Our first impressions | The Vergecast Livestream

Lessons from the very first chatbot

Pencils down: We share our vibe-coded websites

What's behind the Google AI shakeup

The next big thing in movies is 60-year-old IMAX tech

Hotline: E Ink, the fediverse, and smart Puka shells

What's really open about open-weight AI?

Rise of the Whoop dupes

It's time to panic about AI safety

Meta's Oversight Board is coming for ChatGPT and Claude

The Z Fold 8 is the new foldable to beat

Flip phones are so back

Here's what an AI-first phone might look like

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore

Why read anymore?

Samsung's next-generation foldables are here | The Vergecast Livestream

The car of the future is an EV golf cart

The US is losing its lead in AI

Apple's plot to crush OpenAI

The one AI detector people actually trust