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3 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
When did you last buy a company from the beach?
All the smart home news, reviews, and gadgets you need to know about See all Stories Posted Aug 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM UTC When did you last buy a company from the beach? Ken Fairbanks found himself doing exactly that, just so he could keep his smart lights running. In this week's Vergecast , I chat with the new owner of Insteon about how and why he found himself buying a smart home company, and the challenges the industry faces today. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Podcasts Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Smart Home Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Vergecast
The Verge
6 days ago
- The Verge
We found stuff AI is pretty good at
Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it's hard to know where to start or what the best way to use them might be Well, here at The Verge, we have to test all these AI tools to better report on the features and the companies building them. And we've found scenarios that were actually useful. In this bonus episode of The Vergecast, Senior Reviewer Victoria Song sits down with a bunch of Verge staffers to talk about how they use AI tools in their everyday lives. Not all of it went smoothly — we definitely get into the ways these tools fall short — but we explore how AI can be used to help bedtime go more smoothly for parents, plan big cross-country moves, supplement your internet searches (always double-check!), and even vibe code an app for your next tabletop role-playing game. Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | More If you have any examples where AI was useful to you, we'd love to hear them. (For what it's worth, we'd also love to hear stories where it spectacularly failed.) You can email [email protected] or call into the Verge Hotline at from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Victoria Song Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Podcasts Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
The Verge
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
A unifying theory of the podcast sound.
Posted Jul 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM UTC A unifying theory of the podcast sound. Our friends over at Switched on Pop just did a fun episode about the history of the way podcasts sound. The Grateful Dead is in there, as is the infamous Breakmaster Cylinder, who wrote the theme for every podcast ever. Including ours! It's fascinating — and a good combo listen with this Vergecast episode from last year. It also might have ruined podcast jingles for me, forever. All podcast themes sound the same — why? [Switched on Pop] Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. David Pierce Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by David Pierce Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Audio Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
The Verge
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
A quest for the best headphone mics
We've all had it happen. You slip on a trusty pair of headphones, hop on a call, and your friends, family, and coworkers say, 'What?!' Cue your own personal reenactment of the classic 'Can you hear me now?' commercials from Verizon. On this episode of The Vergecast, we kick off Hot Girl Vergecast Summer with a classic Vergecast segment: the mic test. Guest host Victoria Song is joined by Vergecast producers Andru Marino and Erick Gomez to see how the Nothing Headphone 1, Sony WH-1000XM6, Apple AirPods Max, and Bose QuietComfort Ultra hold up against what's possibly the noisiest street in Brooklyn. Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | More After that, Victoria is joined by Ladder CEO Greg Stewart to talk about what it takes to build a successful strength training app — especially for people just starting out. As it turns out, it's quite challenging, between curating playlists, accommodating users' different access to equipment, skill levels, and preferences for coaching styles. (And maybe, some occasional beef with Peloton?) Lastly, we answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@ about AI fitness summaries, whether people actually like them, what's frustrating about them, and what scenarios they might actually be useful for. Want to learn more about the topics in this episode? Here are some handy dandy links for your reference:
The Verge
28-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
Trump's T1 phone drops its ‘Made in the USA' promise.
Trump's T1 phone drops its 'Made in the USA' promise. This week on The Vergecast , we revisited how the flagship Trump Mobile phone suddenly swapped out its 'Made in the USA' claim for 'Designed with American values in mind.' We already had our guesses about who might really make the T1, but with new specs and screen size, we might have to do another round of investigation.
