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.
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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.
This week, everything is a HomePod. And has ads. The Verge’s Jen Pattison-Tuohy joins the show to talk about all of Amazon’s new hardware, the current state of Alexa Plus, and whether the new Kindle Scribe is the one we’ve been waiting for. Then, The Verge’s Emma Roth tells Jen and David about her experience with Telly, the TV that ships to your house for free in exchange for showing you ads all the time. Telly may not be for everyone. Finally, in the lightning round, the gang talks about a handy new Spotify feature, Emma’s first Waymo ride, and the glory that is Chunk.
Further reading:
Amazon’s 2025 hardware event: the 8 biggest announcements
Here’s where to preorder all of Amazon’s new Alexa devices and when they arrive
Amazon finally did the damn hardware right
Amazon’s new Echo Dot Max smart speaker bumps up the bass
Alexa Plus is smarter — but it’s not yet smart enough
Alexa Plus on the TV is made to save you from your phone
Alexa Plus is smarter — but it’s not yet smart enough
Alexa Plus on the TV is made to save you from your phone
Amazon sticks two cameras together for the 180-degree Blink Arc
The new Google Home Speaker is built for Gemini
Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home | The Verge
I spent three months with Telly, the free TV that’s always showing ads
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
Spotify now lets you exclude specific songs from your algorithm
All hail the new Fat Bear Champion
Ring launches upgraded cameras with ‘Retinal Vision’ 4K recording
Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with
Waymo adds YouTube Music
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The Vergecast
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.
