@davidpierce.xyz
Editor-at-large at The Verge. I could eat.
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@davidpierce.xyzGym tasks vs. work tasks. This not a brand-new way of thinking about what we should and shouldn’t offload to AI, but I hadn’t seen it before. From Bruce Schneier: The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work... https://www.theverge.com/tech/973682/gym-tasks-vs-work-tasks
@davidpierce.xyzHi friends! It's Thursday, kid's on summer break, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you reading / watching / listening to / playing / pouring into pitchers this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
@davidpierce.xyzHm this seems bad — what app are you using?
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: The Z Fold 8 is the new foldable to beat. The wide foldable is here, and it’s glorious. The Verge‘s Dominic Preston has been reviewing Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8, and joins the show to explain what this... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/972810/galaxy-z-fold-8-review-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: Flip phones are so back. The team at Light has been working on minimalist phones for more than a decade. Its last device had a lot in common with a smartphone, but the newest model, the Light Flip, is... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/972109/light-flip-phone-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: Here’s what an AI-first phone might look like. Some of the biggest players in AI — in particular OpenAI, SpaceX, and Amazon — are heavily invested in creating a world after smartphones. They’re also all... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/971627/ai-smartphones-openai-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzHi friends! It's Thursday, I made cold brew, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you watching / reading / listening to / playing / throwing to your pets this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
@davidpierce.xyzJust about to go live with @reckless.bsky.social and talk Samsung folds and flips and stuff, come hang! www.youtube.com/live/rI_qWxi...
@davidpierce.xyzStick around after the Samsung event for a Vergecast livestream! We’ll be live shortly after the event ends, talking phones and watches and foldables and flippables and AI and everything else Samsung has to... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/969231/samsung-unpacked-2026-vergecast-livestream
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: The car of the future is an EV golf cart. So far, most electric vehicles have looked more or less like cars. But recently, a few companies have looked to another, smaller mode of transport for... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968863/ev-golf-carts-future-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: The US is losing its lead in AI. Since the beginning of the AI revolution, a few companies have claimed to be building the best and most powerful AI models. All of them were American. More recently, a few... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968286/us-china-ai-race-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzThe Version History season finale is here: it's The Clapper! It was terrible, it was brilliant, it barely worked, I kind of still want one www.theverge.com/podcast/9676...
@davidpierce.xyzEnding the week on The Vergecast, @reckless.bsky.social and I get into Apple v. OpenAI, the ups and downs of Siri AI, OnePlus bailing on the US, and Nilay's truly deranged emoji strategy www.theverge.com/podcast/9672...
@davidpierce.xyzHi friends! It’s FRIDAY, I forgot to post this yesterday, I’m putting together this week’s Installer and want to know everything you’re into. What are you watching / reading / playing / having as a treat this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: Were we too nice to the Steam Machine? Valve’s Steam Machine might be exactly the living room console you’ve been waiting for. Or it might be too expensive, totally pointless, a waste of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/966185/steam-machine-review-feedback-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: The problem with Suno and AI music. AI-generated music is suddenly everywhere. On social media, music streaming services, and elsewhere, stuff made on Suno is becoming unavoidable. The Verge‘s Terrence O’Brien... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/965581/suno-ai-music-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: Watch, headphones, phone: Which AI gadget is best? So far, there have been exactly zero great AI-first gadgets. But that hasn’t stopped the tech industry from trying to figure out what shape and size these... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/965027/ai-gadgets-ranked-vergecast
@davidpierce.xyzThis is starting to become a problem for us! I may need to invent a thing that briefly stops webs from working…
@davidpierce.xyzHi friends! It's Thursday, my car is in the shop, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into right now. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / taking out of the attic this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
@davidpierce.xyzToday’s Vergecast: The life-changing magic of touching stuff., We have all become desensitized. Every place is like every other place, every experience is happening at a remove and on a screen. And Ian Bogost, a... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/962455/small-stuff-ian-bogost-vergecast
