The Vergecast
On Fridays, Nilay Patel and David Pierce take the week’s biggest stories and connect them to everyday use: smart glasses, phones, software, platforms, and the companies behind them. That edition runs for about an hour and a half. On other days, David Pierce works with The Verge’s specialist reporters to dig into a particular product or use case, shifting from the newsroom-wide view to the detail of one device or decision.
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Marques Brownlee, Andrew Manganelli, and David Imel bring the focus back to the objects: smartphones, cameras, electric cars, computers, and services. They often start with what a product changes for the person using it and whether it deserves the price. New hardware can open into questions about platforms and the industry without moving far from the product, the experience, and the purchase. Regular weekly discussions run for around an hour and forty minutes. The hosts’ experience reviewing technology on video gives the conversation room for testing, trade-offs, and the details that matter when choosing a device.
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel, The Verge’s editor-in-chief, starts with a person or a decision and works back to the organization behind it. Executives, founders, journalists, and specialists talk through strategy, platforms, and regulation. A conversation about Cloudflare can lead to the economics of the web, while Atlassian raises questions about AI in enterprise software.
The longer interviews run for about an hour. Team structures, business models, and decision-making are recurring threads: how does a company or institution balance its ambitions against its constraints?
Pivot
Journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway look at technology through money, media, and politics. They unpack major stories, take sides, call winners and losers, make predictions, and readily disagree. That disagreement is part of the programme, with two distinct readings of technology, business, and public debate. Main episodes run for a little over an hour.
The 404 Media Podcast
The podcast extends the reporting of 404 Media, an independent outlet founded by technology journalists. Jason Koebler, Samantha Cole, Emanuel Maiberg, and Joseph Cox return to investigations into surveillance, privacy, AI, platform abuse, and internet subcultures. An investigation or document uncovered by the newsroom can open an episode; the discussion follows the reporting.
The weekly newsroom editions run for around 43 minutes. One episode returns to reporting with an Amazon worker about books intended for AI training.
Tech Life
BBC World Service builds each episode as a short magazine, bringing together several stories, correspondents, and people living through the changes being reported. One episode brings together China’s AI strategy, robotics, and tools used in cricket broadcasting. Others look at childhood in the age of AI or languages poorly represented in digital tools. That international view fits into just under half an hour.
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal tell company histories through strategy: where a business began, the decisions that shaped it, the crises it faced, and the model that endured. The show is not only about technology; its case studies also include Home Depot, Disney, Vanguard, and Ferrari.
The format embraces long episodes: the fullest company histories run for around four hours, giving each story room to show how a business was built.
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