The Vergecast

The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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Last Episode : April 25, 2025 9:00am
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Confirmed 4
Everybody wants to buy ChromeSome weeks, it just feels like everything is up in the air all at the same time. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest, starting with the ever-changing tariff rules that are making gadgets hard to price, hard to find, and hard to bet on going forward. (Maybe that’s why it seems everyone on Earth tried to pre-order a Switch 2 this week.) After that, the hosts catch up on the Meta and Google antitrust trials happening this week, and try to figure out who might be interested in the internet’s most popular browser. Finally, in the lightning round, we talk Brendan Carr (who is a dummy), the wood-backed Motorola Razr Ultra, and the 20th anniversary of YouTube.
Further reading:
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders were a total mess — at first
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are sold out everywhere
GameStop’s Switch 2 preorders started poorly, too
Auto industry tariffs are doing what now? 24 hours of White House confusion
Did Tim Cook finagle a special tariff deal? Senator Warren wants to know
The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia
DHL halts international deliveries to US consumers worth over $800
Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US
Ayn, like Anbernic, is pausing retro handheld shipments to the US.
Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says Zuckerberg “saw us as a threat”
Instagram launches its CapCut clone, Edits
Threads adds more ads
Former Google exec testifies about the company’s attempt to buy WhatsApp.
Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini
Google reveals Gemini AI has 350 million monthly active users.
Apple and Meta hit with the EU’s first DMA antitrust fines
The EU isn’t happy with Apple’s tax on alternative app stores
Brendan Carr is a dummy
From Puck: David Ellison’s Carr Trouble
The Trump FCC’s Coercion Cartel
Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back
YouTube’s TV changes include a redesign and more multiview
YouTube is everything and everything is YouTube
20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and swee
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Expires in 20 hours
Published Friday
How to keep your data safe when you travel
If you’re heading on vacation this summer, you’re going to want to listen to this. The Verge’s Gaby del Valle joins the show to explain how worried you need to be about your digital data when you cross borders, and what you can do to protect yourself. Even if you don’t think you have anything to hide, a little precaution goes a long way. After that, Puck’s Matt Belloni joins the show to explain why Apple, Amazon, Google, and other tech companies continue to pour money into the streaming business, when it seems so far removed from what those companies do well. (Spoiler alert: it’s fun to be friends with Ben Stiller.) Finally, we answer a hotline question about the Google Pixel’s ascent to “best Android phone for people who just want a phone.”
Oh, also: thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Webby Awards! We’ll know soon whether we won, but however it shakes out, we’re so grateful to everyone who voted for us.
Further reading:
Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?
DHS’s airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained
Trump says he wants to deport US citizens to El Salvador
Matt Belloni at Puck
The Town podcast
From Puck: How Long Can the Apple TV+ Experiment Sputter On? - Puck
Google Pixel 9A review: a midrange phone done right
Google Pixel 9 review: the phone that Android needs
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Published Tuesday
Big Tech is back on trial
We promise, this episode is only a little bit about header bidding. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to talk about some big news in tech regulation: Google lost its ad-tech monopoly trial, which could reshape both Google and the internet altogether. And that’s not the only monopoly news! Meta’s trial also started this week, and Alex was there to see Mark Zuckerberg and others try to defend Instagram, WhatsApp, and the company as a whole. After all that, we talk about OpenAI’s plans to build a social network, and how this company seems to never run out of ambition. Finally, in the lightning round, it’s time for another round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, and some news about viral cameras and the Switch 2. Which we’ll be yeeting into our homes as soon as possible
Further reading:
Google loses ad tech monopoly case
FTC v. Meta live: the latest from the battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram purchase in antitrust trial
Zuckerberg defends his empire during FTC antitrust trial
Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg tells court that Meta made WhatsApp, Instagram better
Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage
Meta reportedly offered $1 billion to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit.
Zuckerberg defends his empire during FTC antitrust trial
Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly-redacted slides
Meta’s antitrust trial slide redactions aren’t actually hiding anything
OpenAI is building a social network
OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model
OpenAI might finally get better model names soon.
OpenAI’s upgraded o3 model can use images when reasoning
ChatGPT will now remember your old conversations
OpenAI is reportedly considering a $3 billion deal to buy AI coding tool Windsurf.
Netflix is testing a new OpenAI-powered search
Brendan Carr on X
The Media and Democracy Project on Bluesky
Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from higher tariffs
Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin
TSMC is unfazed by tariffs.
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer: “I want to support Switch 2.”
In pursuit of a viral, five-year-old compact camera
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Published 04/18
The 2025 Vergecast Streaming Draft
It's time, once again, to see what's what in the streaming wars. For the third year in a row, our hosts — this time Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes — have to build a roster of streaming options that will win awards, show 4K content, satisfy their live TV needs, and much more. First, the hosts decide who won last year's competition, and then they pick their favorites for 2025.
Make sure you listen to the episode before you read this, but here are the results of the draft:
Jake's picks:
Cheap: Tubi
Awards: Netflix
4K: Hulu
Live: Instagram Live
Niche: PBS Passport
Content: LoFi Girl
Wild Card: Kanopy
Nilay's picks:
Cheap: TikTok
Awards: Max
4K: Disney Plus
Live: Sunday Ticket
Niche: Kaleidescape
Content: CNBC
Wild Card: F1 TV
David's picks
Cheap: Peacock
Awards: Amazon Prime
4K: YouTube Premium
Live: YouTube TV
Niche: BritBox
Content: Stranger Things season 5
Wild Card: Paramount Plus
We want to know who you think won the draft! Email us at [email protected], or call The Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11, and tell us all your thoughts. And if you want to catch up, you can check out our draft from 2024 and from 2023. A lot has changed, and nothing has.
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Published 04/15
How the tech world is responding to tariff chaos
Welcome to tech in 2025, where everything's made up and the numbers don't matter. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes start the show by running down the latest tariff news, the uncertain future facing tech companies of all sizes, and what we're learning so far about how they're responding. After that, the hosts talk about a big week in AI news, including Meta's sketchy benchmark numbers and the latest damning reporting about the future of Siri. Finally, in the lightning round, it's time for America's favorite podcast within a podcast, Brendan Carr is a Dummy, along with some news about the TikTok ban and the Pixel 9A. And then some more tariff numbers, because they just never stop.
Further reading:
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Sony adds three new speakers to bass-boosted ULT Power Sound lineup
Sony seemingly bakes tariff penalty into its new US TV pricing
Samsung’s The Frame Pro was never going to be cheap — and it isn’t
Trump’s tariffs are officially in effect, including 104 percent on China
China retaliates with additional 50 percent tariff on US goods
Trump announces a ‘90-day pause’ on tariffs outside of China
Trump believes iPhones can be made in the US, says White House
Get your screwdrivers ready.
Apple quickly shipped 600 tons of iPhones to ‘beat’ the new tariffs
Trump triples tariffs on low value packages from China and Hong Kong
Some Shein and Temu ‘haul video’ creators are stocking up
Shein’s supply chain uncertainties.
Amazon is already changing its ultra-cheap Temu copycat
Framework stops selling some of its cheapest laptops due to Trump tariffs
Framework delays Laptop 12 orders in the US over tariffs
Framework will open US preorders for Laptop 12 after all: tomorrow, starting at $549.
Framework raised prices and then un-raised them an hour later because of Trump
Price hikes, idled factories, layoffs: how car companies are responding to Trump’s tariffs
China will show fewer US films in response to tariffs
Trump’s new tariffs leave small creators scrambling
Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariff
Trump’s latest tariffs may set the smart home industry back
Nintendo boss on Switch 2 and tariffs: ‘we are actively assessing what the impact may be’
Trump’s tariffs ‘pause’ could help Nintendo ship more Switch 2s
Musk calls Trump’s trade chief ‘dumber than a sack of bricks.’
We just declared a trade war with the world
Meta gets caught gaming AI benchmarks with Llama 4
Siri in The Information
Amazon plays catch-up with new Nova AI models to generate voices and video
Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job
Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it
Adobe is building AI agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Samsung is finally releasing Ballie, its rolling home robot
Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s AI project could involve a screenless device.
Trump Is Now Mandating His Cabinet/Loyalist Wear "Trump Golden Bust" Pins
From Ars Technica: The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy
From Variety: FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Sounds Alarm Over Trump Administration’s ‘Absolute Pattern of Censorship and Control’
From the FCC: Spectrum Is Back—Again!
FCC eyes major satellite rule revamp in spectrum-sharing shakeup
Trump delays TikTok ban again
Trump’s TikTok delay is ‘against the law’ top Senate Intelligence Democrat says
The US told Apple to keep TikTok in the App Store.
Instagram might finally release an iPad app
Google Pixel 9A review: a midrange phone done right
Pixel 9A hits stores, and it’s still $499.
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Published 04/11
Switch 2: the good news and bad news
Last week, The Verge's Ash Parrish got to play with the new Nintendo Switch 2. We got over our outrageous jealousy long enough to ask her all about it: what it's like to hold, how the screen looks, whether the mouse-control is any good, and much more. Ash gives us the good news, and the bad news, on everything we now know about the Switch 2. (We do talk about the price, but we recorded before the Trump administration launched its massive new tariff push — so you can consider the price even worse news than we thought.) After that, The Verge's Tom Warren joins the show to talk about Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, how the company has stayed so resilient for so long, and whether AI is really the next five-decade project for one of the world's biggest companies. Finally, we answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, or email [email protected]!) about how you should change your shopping habits in a tariff-filled world. It's hard to know where we'll be in a few months, but it sure doesn't look like gadgets are getting any cheaper.
Further reading:
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Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: it’s all in the games
All of the Nintendo Switch 2 news, hands-ons, and trailers
Donkey Kong Bananza was best in show at the Switch 2 hands-on
I’m not sold on the Switch 2’s mouse-like controls
Microsoft turns 50
Why I’ve covered Microsoft for 25 years
How Microsoft made it through 50 years
Trump’s tariffs mean you’ll pay more for all gadgets
Trump’s tariffs put the iPhone in a tough spot
From The Wall Street Journal: Here’s the iPhone. Here’s the iPhone With Tariffs.
New Star GP, the game
The General Magic documentary
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Published 04/08
How tariffs will change your gadgets
It's a Nintendo Switch 2. What could it cost, a thousand dollars? In this episode, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler talk through why we don't really know. But first, we talk about the Switch 2, and some of the reasons we're excited — and maybe just a little concerned — about Nintendo's new console. This is likely to be the most interesting device of the year, and we learned an awful lot more about it this week. We also talk about Microsoft's 50th anniversary, the fate of TikTok, and other gadget news. Then we get to tariffs, with the help of Tuneshine creator Tobias Butler, who explains how tariffs affect the way hardware companies do business — and how they're navigating the current uncertainty. After that, in the lightning round, it's time for a little Brendan Carr is a Dummy, followed by the latest on Tesla's sales numbers, Alexa Plus, and Coyote vs. Acme.
Further reading:
The Vergecast was nominated for a Webby, which means we can win a Webby People’s Voice Award and that’s voted online by you! So we’d love your support. You can vote at the link:https://bit.ly/3DXFgpN
The 50 best things Microsoft has ever made
The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: it’s all in the games
Nvidia confirms the Nintendo Switch 2 has DLSS and real-time ray tracing
Nintendo Switch 2 specs: 1080p 120Hz display, 4K dock, mouse mode, and more
The Nintendo Switch 2 has a camera accessory for video chat
Nintendo’s Switch 2 ‘C’ button is a Discord-like GameChat feature
Verge staffers react to the Nintendo Switch 2
Here’s everything Nintendo has revealed about the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons
Nintendo’s Switch 2 preorder process has strict requirements to thwart scalpers
‘TikTok America,’ Amazon, and other rumors about who might buy TikTok
From The New York Times: Trump Set to Meet With Top Aides to Decide TikTok’s Fate
From Wired: The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok
Tuneshine – Your space, your music
Donald Trump announces tariffs that could raise the price of almost everything you buy
Reciprocal Tariff Calculations | United States Trade Representative
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
These are the tariffs about to hit Apple.
Chris Murphy’s Bluesky thread
Trump’s tariffs are ‘a debacle of epic proportions’ for the auto industry
T-Mobile closes Lumos deal after dropping DEI | The Verge
E&C Democrats Launch Investigation into FCC Chairman Carr’s Repeated Attacks on the First Amendment
Sony’s new Bravia lineup includes its ‘King of TV’ successor
Tesla’s sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows
Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air
Alexa Plus just launched in early access, but it’s missing some features
Coyote vs. Acme is finally coming to theaters
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Published 04/04
Searching for the perfect minimalist smartphone
David has a Light Phone III, and it's making him wonder a lot of things about technology. So The Verge's Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about the whole trend of minimalist smartphones, and to figure out which features a smartphone absolutely needs, and which ones we could all probably do without. After that, The Verge's Andy Hawkins takes us through a big weekend in the Tesla Takedown movement, what's happening with Elon Musk's car company, how automakers are responding to impending tariffs, and whether we're wrong to be excited about the new Nissan Leaf. Finally, The Verge's Jen Tuohy answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11, or email [email protected]!) about all-seeing cameras in our homes. Which mostly don't exist yet. Mostly.
Further reading:
Light Phone III review: everything in moderation
There’s no perfect minimalist phone — yet
One year with the Light Phone 2
We went to 10 anti-Tesla protests — and a couple counter protests, too
‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’
How Elon Musk turned the Tesla brand so toxic
The Nissan Leaf lives on as a compact SUV with a Tesla charge port
Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house
Project Astra is the future of AI at Google
Alexa Plus arrives with promise but plenty of questions
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Published 04/01
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem
In this episode, we do a Studio Ghibli-like rendition of The Vergecast. First, Nilay and David discuss some big news in the gadget world, from the mysteriously viral midrange Canon camera to the upgrades we're expecting out of Apple in the next few months. Plus, is it over for Amazon's Echo brand? After all that, The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to discuss everything happening at OpenAI: the company launched a new image generator inside of ChatGPT, and it immediately became both a huge hit and a big mess. (Par for the course with OpenAI, really.) Kylie also explains why Perplexity is probably not buying TikTok, no matter how much it might want to. Finally, in the lightning round, it's time for everyone's favorite segment, Brendan Carr Is a Dummy, followed by the latest on the Signal attack-planning chaos in the government, some news about Elon Musk pressuring Reddit CEO Steve Huffmann, and what's next for the car industry with huge tariffs looming. Oh, and a little bit of exciting e-bike news
Further reading:
From Meta: Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook
Apple’s AirPods Max with USB-C will soon support lossless audio
The Apple Watch may get cameras and Apple Intelligence
Apple’s WWDC 2025 event starts June 9th
Don’t expect an overhauled Messages app in iOS 19.
Amazon tests renaming Echo smart speakers and smart displays to just ‘Alexa’
OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus
OpenAI upgrades image generation and rolls it out in ChatGPT and Sora
ChatGPT’s new image generator is delayed for free users
ChatGPT is turning everything into Studio Ghibli art
OpenAI says ‘our GPUs are melting’ as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests
OpenAI expects to earn $12.7 billion in revenue this year.
Nvidia Infinite Creative
Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis
Google says its new ‘reasoning’ Gemini AI models are the best ones yet
Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features
Perplexity’s bid for TikTok continues
Trump's FCC says it will start investigating Disney, too
From Status: Sounding the Carr Alarm
Trump officials leaked a military strike in a Signal group chat
The Atlantic releases strike group chat messages
And the Most Tortured Signal-Gate Backronym Award goes to… | The Verge
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation | The Verge
Trump’s plans to save TikTok may fail to keep it online, Democrats warn
Rivian spins out secret e-bike lab into a new company called Also
BYD beats Tesla.
Trump says he will impose a 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles
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Published 03/28
How Roomba got stuck
Some products are so successful they become snynonymous with their whole category — nobody asks for a facial tissue, they ask for a Kleenex, you know? Today's episode is, at least in part, about two of those products. First, The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to chart the rise and fall of the Roomba, the robot vacuum that practically invented the category and yet seems to have been left behind. Can iRobot get its robot back on its feet? After that, Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn discusses the state of e-readers, what it's like to always be "the best non-Amazon option," and what we all want from devices that aren't our smartphone. Finally, The Verge's Chris Welch helps us answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11, or email [email protected]!) about which TV you should buy in 2025. It's a complicated question, but there are answers.
Further reading:
From CNN: The secret military technology inside the household vacuum robot
iRobot announces eight new robot vacuums
iRobot tells investors its future is in doubt
Will iRobot’s reinvention of the Roomba be at the expense of its history of innovation?
Amazon wants to map your home, so it bought iRobot
The death of the Amazon deal could mean goodbye iRobot
iRobot’s founder is working on a new kind of home robot
Michael Tamblyn's website
Kobo announces its first color e-readers
The best ereader to buy right now
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Published 03/25
Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech
Starlink is in the White House, Siri is still bad, Pebble is back, up is down, everything is chaos. In this episode, Nilay and David start the show by running through some big gadget news, from a Siri-related shakeup at Apple to the new Google Pixel 9A. After that, The Verge's Lauren Feiner talks us through some of the latest in tech regulation: Trump's illegal firings at the FTC, the confusing state of the TikTok ban, OpenAI and Google arguing their case for free-for-all AI, and more. Finally, in the lightning round, Nilay and David talk about the latest Tesla recall, the hugely popular book about Meta, some exciting ActivityPub news, and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos gently zinging Apple TV Plus.
Further reading:
From Bloomberg: Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri
The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year
Europe is trying to get non-Apple smartwatches to work better with iPhones
Google’s Pixel 9A gets a bigger screen and beefier water resistance
Google briefly delays Pixel 9A release to investigate ‘component quality issue’
Huawei’s new flip phone is weirdly wide
Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’
Nvidia’s cute ‘Digits’ AI desktop is coming this summer with a new name and a big brother
Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’
Musk’s Starlink gets deployed at the White House
Federal rural broadband program loses head
Oracle is reportedly in the lead to save TikTok from US ban
A”high-level” deal to save TikTok can probably happen by the April 5th deadline, Vance says.
Democratic FTC commissioners say they were ‘illegally fired’ by Trump
Fired FTC commissioner warns of the ‘corrupting influence of billionaires’
Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks will resign this spring
WBEZ, 12 other public media stations under investigation
CTIA Announces Ajit Pai as New CEO and President
OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own
Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood
Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules
DHS’s airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained
Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge
DOGE stranded USAID workers with laptops full of sensitive data
They’re removing webpages about Black soldiers by adding ‘DEI’ to the URL.
‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’
Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks after trim starts falling off
From NYMag: Elon Musk Has Become Too Toxic for YouTube
‘Careless People’ debuts at the top of the NYT best sellers list.
Threads finally lets you set the following feed as default
Ghost connects its newsletters to the open web
Netflix’s CEO talks Apple TV, Amazon, and the NFL
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Published 03/21
Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars
Handheld gaming looks like the future — so why isn't it more popular? The Verge's Sean Hollister joins the show to talk about some new data about the handheld console market, what it says about the Steam Deck's dominance, whether the Switch 2 might change everything all over again, and why Sony and Microsoft don't appear to be in the game at all. After that, David reports on his trip to Florida to see TGL, the golf league aiming to bring the sport to new places and new fans, with the help of a truly enormous amount of technology. Finally, we answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline about iPads — and more specifically, one particularly good reason to upgrade to the Air or the Pro.
Further reading:
Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming shipments
Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster
Lenovo Legion Go S review: feels good, plays bad
Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile
MSI Claw review: an embarrassment
A night at TGL, the would-be future of golf
From ESPN: Inside the making of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's TGL
From Wired: Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?!
Apple iPad Air 2025 review: what the M3 upgrade really gets you
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Published 03/18