Today I'm toying with the Lego Game Boy and comparing it to a pristine OG. Let's build it real fast, shall we. Lovely manual with Game Boy history.And now it's time for bricks. First is our game cartridge stand where you also store those lovely lenticular images. I'll just put them right there.Next is a game pack itself with a mock green circuit board inside and one of just two stickers in the set. Nice and smooth. How does it compare to a real cart.Not bad. The second bag begins with the back giving it tha ...

[Music] Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of all of the apps being like all of the other apps and all of the devices being like all of the other devices. It's 2025 and everything is the same. I'm your friend David Pierce.Jake Castronakis is here. Hi Jake. Hey, what's going on.I love when everything is the same. It bring you can switch between everything and you don't notice. It's great.Yeah. From now on, there is gadget and there is app. And those are the only two things we're going to talk abo ...

I can't believe I have to say this, but no. Apple is not buying up all the iPhone 13 Pro Maxes. I'm telling you, if you got that iPhone Pro 13 Max, yo, hold on.$1,100, $12, $1,300. Whatever amount they're going to offer you, it is worth more than that. It must be the greatest iPhone of all time.I've seen a bunch of videos where people are saying Apple is offering these huge $1,100 trade-in discounts for the 13 Pro Max, and that must mean it's the best iPhone ever, and you should not trade yours in. Apple is ...

My final summer take of 2025 is that we should bring back phone calls as like a normal thing that people do to each other all day every day. But I want to bring back phone calls in one very specific way. And I want to bring back phone calls like cops do in movies where there's no hello, how are you.Let's small talk for 60 seconds before we get into it. We don't even say goodbye at the end. Hayden, you call me, I pick up the phone, I say hey. You say hey.Was it in Brooklyn or Manhattan. I say Brooklyn. And y ...

Summer take number one is that podcasts should be listened to at 1x and all other fast speeds are wrong. If you don't have time to listen to the podcast, listen to fewer podcasts. It's fine.1x is the correct speed at which you should listen to a podcast. All other speeds are insane. I've got to say 100% disagree for that one.I have a life. I have a brain that goes fast, but when I'm listening to people talk in my ear, sometimes they're getting taking a while to get to the point, you know. So, I got to liste ...

Let's start with live streaming, which I think surprised me a lot that it was a big focus at made on YouTube this year. Just in principle, is that as surprising to you as it was to me. >> Okay, first I have a quote.If you look at YouTube as a series of products reverse engineered from advertising budgets, the company's many offerings start to make a kind of sense. Do you know who wrote that. >> That sounds like me.>> It's you. And so like the first, you know, the first lens that I would look at this is like ...

Welcome to the most car dependent nation on earth. We've got enormous highways, sprawling suburbs, neglected public transit, and soaring rates of unhappiness as a direct result of this obligation to drive everywhere we go. But what if there was another way, a better way to get around, to be less dependent on gas guzzlers and other modes of transportation that contribute to climate change.I think there is, and it's hiding right under our noses. As transportation editor at The Verge, I have a few perks that c ...

Let me tell you about a show we're launching here at Verge. Do you ever watch or listen to those like rewatch podcasts where a bunch of people go through episode by episode and talk about all their favorite stories and all the stuff that they remember. We're going to do that but with tech.None of that existed back then. That paired down funkiness of it still works. We're talking about products from the Zoom to Guitar Hero.Wow. It's very 2005. And software from Lime Wire to BBM.This was the selling point. Go ...

If you guys are wearing headphones and you go into a store, what do you do. >> I usually just pause the music and talk. >> Okay.Jake, what do you do. >> Oh, yeah. I'm taking them out.Yeah. I It's like it's in the way. I mean, it's like the same thing if I go into store and I'm wearing sunglasses like I'm going to take them off to talk to somebody.I will always like performatively take out one of my headphones to be like like as I'm walking up just to make it very clear that like yes, I am listening to you l ...

There are now going to be advertisements displayed on the screen of your Samsung smart fridge. Okay, like this is gling. This is like really bad, right.They sold you a product. This is a product that lives in a major room of your house and now they are changing the product they sold you to put ads in your face. This should not be allowed.Number one, this is like a terrible product feature. Number two, stop putting screens on fridges. Number three, that's all I got.Okay, allow me to make the other case. Oh, ...