Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newton chronicle the week since the Capitol riot: Trump gets deplatformed and Parler is removed from app stores.
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It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here
FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule
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Apr 3
Apple's best product ever
We love a ranking here on The Vergecast, and it’s time for the hardest one yet: David and Nilay compare notes on the 50 best products Apple has ever made, and see how their answers stack up to the many, many voters on The Verge this week. Before that, though, it’s time for a bit ... Show More
1h 44m
Mar 31
Apple at 50: the good and the bad
It's Apple 50 week, so we've got an Apple-filled podcast. First, longtime Apple journalist Jason Snell joins the show to talk about the state of the company as a hardware maker, a software maker, a force for good in the world, and more. Then, blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash ex ... Show More
1h 28m
Mar 27
Meta's court losses could be just the beginning
We start with some important business: Nilay has a flight to catch, and is very worried he won't catch it. Also, it's Apple's 50th anniversary next week, and we're going to spend the week debating which Apple products are the best Apple products. (Head to the ad-free Vergecast fe ... Show More
1h 40m
Jan 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok shutdown, Biden’s AI policies and Zuckerberg asks Trump for a favor
On this week’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes,” we’ll dive into President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence plus a request Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made to President-elect Donald Trump. But first, tech news site The Information reported that TikTok plans to complete ... Show More
11m 25s
Mar 2025
Click Here: The TikTok Ban, China, And National Security
The story of TikTok in the U.S. is one that's had many chapters, to say the least.First, then-President Donald Trump called for its ban in 2020. Then, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan law in 2024 requiring the company in charge of the video-sharing platform to sell the app ... Show More
39m 15s
Jan 2025
Trump 2.0: Bans, Purges and Retribution
<p>This week, President Trump has banned diversity, equity and inclusion programming in the federal government, punished former aides by taking away their security detail and celebrated the release of hundreds of Jan. 6, 2021, rioters and planners.</p><p>The New York Times journa ... Show More
28m 49s
Oct 2024
“It’s the First Amendment, stupid”
Trump and a bunch of billionaires, like Elon Musk, are calling for the FCC to punish TV stations by revoking their licenses and using the spectrum for other stuff. In a normal world, this would be idle billionaire wishcasting. Punishing news organizations is one of those things w ... Show More
38m 42s