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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 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.

The Vergecast

This week Apple announced a Mac Mini made for AI and a Mac Studio made for AI, both with faster M6 and M5 Pro chips made for AI. But that's all an amuse-bouche to Sept. 9's (expected) main course: the long-awaited folding iPhone. Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes, and David Imel run through all of this week's Apple news, including the most important story: a surprise discount on the legendary polishing cloth.Then, they react to Meta's settlement in its latest kids safety trial, geek out about Grand Theft Auto VI with the Hype Desk's Ashley Esqueda, check out the Pokémon Fitbit, and decide if Nvidia just saved the global economy.

Further reading:

 ⁠File a comment with the FCC⁠

 ⁠Apple announces September iPhone launch event⁠

 ⁠Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute⁠

 ⁠Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra⁠

 ⁠Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices⁠

 ⁠Apple’s ‘new’ polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper⁠

 ⁠Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement⁠

 ⁠Meta is planning an ad blitz urging TikTok and YouTube to follow its lead.⁠

 ⁠All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens⁠

 ⁠Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks⁠

 ⁠Fierce Network: FCC opens comments on E-Rate as the program gets attacked in court⁠

 ⁠Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company⁠

 ⁠Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers.⁠

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0:00 Welcome to the Vergecast01:26 Apple Mac AI Hype02:26 Mac Mini Agent Craze06:32 Mac Studio vs Nvidia11:43 Price Hikes and Cloth17:01 iPhone Event Invite17:38 iPhone Fold Debate21:30 Camera Crash Out26:57 Meta Settlement Breakdown28:59 First Amendment Fallout36:59 Age Verification Push39:30 Filter Rules and Loopholes44:11 Will Teens Just Switch Apps45:20 Reels Versus Shorts46:35 Government Next Steps47:39 Break And Reset47:50 GTA VI Showcase54:29 Leaks And Spoilers57:12 Can GTA Save Games01:00:51 GTA Online Money01:02:04 Brendan Carr is a Dummy01:03:45 E Rate Fight01:08:46 Nvidia Earnings Hype01:17:50 Pokemon Sleep Fitbit01:22:41 Waymo Versus Tesla01:28:34 Decoder And Goodbye
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The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

If, after months of increasingly dire RAMageddon warnings, you just now find yourself in the market for a new laptop... we're here to help. In the latest installment of our "RAMageddon Survival Guide," laptop reviewer Antonio G. Di Benedetto joins David Imel to offer his recommendations.

Further reading:

 Apple announces September iPhone launch event

 Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

 Xbox’s limited-edition green Series X is already sold out

 Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers

 A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping

 An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

 This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon the price already went up by $800

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How to buy a laptop when everything’s expensive

Two-hour usage limits, age verification, and a $17.1 billion payout: We're breaking down today's big settlement in Meta's kids online safety trial. Senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner and senior tech and policy editor Adi Robertson discuss how we got here, why Meta settled, and what this means for the ongoing conversation around teen mental health and social media.

Further reading:

 Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

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Meta will cut teens off of Instagram after two hours

It can be hard enough to set up smart home tech in a house or an apartment, but what about a dorm room? Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently tested out some smart home tech when she dropped off her son for his freshman year at Clemson. Jen reports back to David Imel on how the gadgets stood up to the challenges of college Wi-Fi and rules against hanging things on the wall.

Further reading:

 Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute

 Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices

 Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra

 Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness

 WhatsApp is making it easier to ignore spam calls

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Does smart home tech work in a college dorm?

Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larchuk leads David, Nilay, and The Verge’s Sean Hollister through a game of memory and history and a surprising amount of feelings tied to gadget launches.

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We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

Smart phone cameras have been getting better and better at capturing flawless, true-to-life images. But is that what the people really want?David Imel joins Nilay Patel and Jake Kastrenakes to talk through the Pixel 11's Camera Looks. They're Google's nod to the trend of retro digital and analogue cameras, and alter how a photo is processed on the sensor level. At the same time, its super zoom is still hallucinating text and making stuff up.

Then it's a supersized Brendan Carr is a Dummy, with increasingly infuriating tales of how Brendan Carr is being a Dummy, culminating in the FCC's quest to make sure your internet connection remains slow.

Plus, we talk through the confounding AirPods camera leak, the Fairphone, and YouTube's new method for counting views.

Further reading:

 Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse

 Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close coordination with White House and rightwing media

 ABC sues the FCC over Trump and Carr’s campaign of threats

 FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

 Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video 

 Meta glasses are a workplace menace

 Apple reportedly won’t launch AirPods with cameras until next year.

 Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US

 YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost

 YouTube is reportedly offering channels “millions of dollars” not to cross-post videos on Netflix.

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Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend

For better or worse, Amazon Alexa and Google Home's smart voice assistants have been imbued with the powers of generative AI. The promise is that you can use natural language with your smart speaker to adjust your thermostat, lock the doors, and find out what your pets have been up to. The reality is smart home voice assistants seem to be going through an identity crisis. Senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy invites Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel onto his own podcast to compare notes on life with Alexa Plus vs. Gemini for Home.

Further reading:

 ⁠GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere⁠

 ⁠I bought DJI’s banned camera — it was cheap and easy⁠

 ⁠Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?⁠

 ⁠Meta glasses are a workplace menace⁠

 ⁠Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are⁠

 ⁠I tasked Alexa Plus with tackling my to-do list — it was hit or miss⁠

 ⁠With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product⁠

 ⁠How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁠

 ⁠I let Gemini watch my family for the weekend — it got weird⁠

 ⁠Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it⁠

 ⁠Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker⁠

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We ask Gemini and Alexa to track cats and give advice

Pixel reviewers assemble: Senior reviewer Victoria Song leads a Vergecast roundtable with editors Dominic Preston and Cameron Faulkner to discuss the Pixel 11/Pro/Fold and the Pixel Watch 5. We discuss if HiLight is a LowLight, whether we miss the temperature sensor, and if the Watch 5’s GPS truly beats Garmin and Apple. And stay tuned for more camera discussion on Friday’s Vergecast.

Further reading:

 Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

 Amazon’s drones will soon deliver to nearly 500 US cities and towns | The Verge

 Framework gave its 12-inch laptop some hardware upgrades | The Verge

 This robot vacuum solves my kitchen stool problem

 The Pixel 11 isn’t the best Pixel of 2026, but it’s the smartest buy

 The Pixel 11 Pro is a great phone, no thanks to its flashiest new features

 Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

 Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is promising — but it isn’t finished

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Pixel reviewer roundtable

It feels right now like prices are going up, gadgets are getting worse, and everything is getting harder to buy. Leo Mastrolia, the Digital Doctor and the owner of a repair shop in New Jersey, is seeing this all play out first hand. For the second part of our conversation (and the first part of our RAMageddon survival guide), he tells us what he’s telling his clients about fixing their gadgets, managing upgrades, and surviving a parts crisis.

Further reading:

 Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

 Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video

 Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US

 Spirit in the machine

 Polaroid’s new Pokémon collection captures memories, not Pikachus

 Digital Doctor Repairs on YouTube

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A repair shop’s guide to surviving RAMageddon

A few years ago, Leo Mastrolia started a gadget repair shop. Little did he know he’d eventually become known across the internet as The Digital Doctor, and would learn to fix practically every gadget you can think of. On this episode, which is part one of our conversation with Leo, he tells us about his journey as a gadget fixer, the growth of his social channels, and how right-to-repair fights and upgrade cycles are affecting life in his store.

Further reading:

 ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

 Amazon is trying to crush class action suits before they get started

 Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries

 Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more

 Digital Doctor Repairs on YouTube

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The Digital Doctor will see you now

Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named Joseph Weizenbaum, who built the bot almost as a magic trick — and then couldn't believe how many people fell for it. David Berry and Mark Marino, two members of a team dedicated to restoring and understanding ELIZA, explain how Weizenbaum created the virtual conversant, why he came to regret it, and what ELIZA can teach us about life in the AI age.

Further reading:

 Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

 David Ellison’s ready to pull Paramount out of California

 What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event

 The ELIZA Archaeology Project

 Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

 From Eliza to ChatGPT: the 60-year history of chatbots

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Lessons from the very first chatbot

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