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February 19, 2026
The speech police came for Colbert
Generally speaking, arcane and mostly unenforced FCC rules are not the province of late night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems intent on changing that, though; not long after causing...
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February 19, 2026
The biggest app in the whole wide world
Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 down...
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February 17, 2026
Your next laptop could be a foldable phone
For almost as long as phones have been around, people have wanted those phones to also be laptops. It seems so simple: Your phone has plenty of computing power, access to all your apps and data, an...
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February 16, 2026
A Star is born
Two hours before one of the most important live events in Netflix's history, LA's sprawling CBS Radford Studio Center is abuzz with the strangest combination of things. As I walk through one cavern...
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February 14, 2026
How to un-Big Tech your online life
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 116, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy National Ferris Wheel Day to all those who celebrate, and al...
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February 13, 2026
Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape
You can watch Ring's recent Super Bowl ad and see a cute story about dogs being reunited with their families. You can also watch the very same ad and see the seeds being planted for a massively con...
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February 10, 2026
Could the Trump Phone be a good phone?
We have long had our doubts about the Trump Phone. Since its very first debut, the device - technically called the Trump Mobile T1 Phone 8002 - has seemed utterly impossible to execute as advertise...
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February 7, 2026
The best way to watch the Olympics
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, go Seahawks I guess, and also you can read all the old editions at...
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February 6, 2026
How Epstein became a tech influencer
There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, on...
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February 3, 2026
Millions of books died so Claude could live
When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn't invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology...
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January 27, 2026
Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search
Yahoo's big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company's roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as "Jerry's guide to the world wide web," and was designed as a sort of all-encomp...
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January 27, 2026
Truth and AI in Minneapolis
When federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, video of the shooting - from lots of people, and lots of angles, with wildly varying levels of quality - immediately began...
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January 24, 2026
Get stuff done by yelling at your phone
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January 23, 2026
The end of the Sony era in TVs
There aren't many tech companies that can claim Sony's level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the Trinitron, Sony has been making excellent gadgets in m...
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January 20, 2026
How BYD beat Tesla
The Model S. The Mach-E. The Ioniq. The… Dolphin Surf? That's right, friends: There's a new biggest name in EVs, and it means you might soon be cruising down the highway in the Dolphin Surf. And yo...
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January 17, 2026
Our favorite cozy game is back
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 112, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I hope your home is warmer than mine right now, and also you can r...
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January 16, 2026
Siri is a Gemini
We know how the next-generation Siri is supposed to work. Apple showed it off in 2024, made commercials about it, and generally promised that AI would change the way we used our gadgets forever. An...
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January 14, 2026
Gemini is winning
If you want to win in AI - and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way - you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a m...
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January 13, 2026
How Lego’s Smart Brick works
The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizm...
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January 11, 2026
How TiVo killed live TV
For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous as Google or Xerox. The love was well-earned, si...
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January 10, 2026
The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy
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January 9, 2026
The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: What is the point of a robot that falls over?
This year's CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren't what dominated CES 2026. Instead, Las Ve...
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January 6, 2026
The robots, phones, and Lego of CES 2026
This year's Consumer Electronics Show is only just getting into full swing, and we've already seen a deluge of gadget announcements. There are the staples, of course: gigantic TVs, smart home senso...
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January 5, 2026
Twelve South’s Valet is a handsome place to put your stuff
For years, the accessory maker Twelve South has sold clever accessories for charging gadgets. Its new device, the Valet, is maybe its simplest idea ever: it's a nice-looking tray designed to be the...
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January 4, 2026
The wild, intense rise and fall of Flappy Bird
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, lef...
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December 28, 2025
The terrible Nintendo controller that helped make VR happen
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a...
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December 23, 2025
The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular
Happy Holidays! As we like to do on The Vergecast, we take this time of year to see our families, relax and recharge, and go extremely deep into a specific technology that matters right now. This y...
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December 21, 2025
How AIM taught the internet to chat
If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there's a good chance I could play a one-second long sound of a door opening and memories would immediately come flooding back. Memories...
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December 21, 2025
Our favorite stuff of 2025
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December 19, 2025
Brendan Carr is a dummy
All year on The Vergecast, we've been tracking the many bizarre and problematic actions of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. There has been a lot to discuss! Then, this week, ahead of one of our last epis...
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