Oh gadget, my gadget

In 1997, David Hampton and Caleb Chung took one look at a Tamagotchi and decided they could bring the virtual pet craze into the real world. Their robotic companion, Furby, packed a bunch of advanced technology into a small, adorable, often annoying package. But for all the irrit ...  Show more

While most phone makers work hard to ensure their products don’t start fires, Oukitel made a phone that starts fires on purpose. This week on The Vergecast, Dominic Preston joins Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel to wrap up all the weird and wonderful phones he and the team saw at Mobi ...  Show more

Our smartphones rule our lives. We love them, we hate them. Somewhere deep down inside, we hope they never go away. But, if recent sales data is to be believed, we are also incredibly bored with smartphones—so bored in fact that we’re buying far fewer of them than we used to.< ...

Timestamps: 0:00 very confusing 0:09 RCS support in iOS 18 beta 1:30 YouTube's 'jump ahead' button + more 2:30 AI companies and 'fair use' 5:28 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:39 Apple Pay charges in Hungary 6:16 Intel's optical interconnect chiplet 6:53 CriticGPT 7:29 T-Mobile breaks price-f ...  Show more

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In this episode, hosts RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III invite guest Kelly Vaughn for a casual discussion over a glass of Bardstown Fusion bourbon. The conversation meanders around various topics including podcasting, the concept of artificial intelligence, th ...