CES is a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, kind of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, most elaborate, most bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the whole industry flies to Las Vegas to show off new stuff and make big deals.
The Vergecast at CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets
On The Vergecast, live from Las Vegas: all the things we saw, played with, touched, and talked about at this year’s CES.
On The Vergecast, live from Las Vegas: all the things we saw, played with, touched, and talked about at this year’s CES.
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is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
On this episode of The Vergecast, a special live edition of the show from the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, we talk through as much of it as we can. (Thanks to everyone who came out, by the way! So much fun to get to see and hang out with all of you.) We actually begin the show with a story that didn’t start at CES but took over the week anyway: Meta’s about-face on fact-checking and content moderation. After that, we get into Samsung’s new Frame Pro TV, the end of Dell’s XPS brand, Sony’s bizarrely expensive Afeela car, and more.
After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Victoria Song join us onstage to talk about what they saw at the show. We talk about phone toasters, robot vacuums, smart locks, smart glasses, Max Ink Mode, and lots more. Will anything we saw this week ever ship, and will any of it be any good? Who knows! But that’s the fun of CES. It’s a fever dream, a brainstorm session, and a truly wild look into the future of tech.
If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first on the Meta news:
- Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk, ditches fact-checking for Community Notes
- Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased’
- Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for
- Meta is leaving its users to wade through hate and disinformation
- Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook
Then on all things CES:
- The Verge Awards at CES 2025
- Samsung announces The Frame Pro: could this be the perfect TV?
- LG’s StanbyME sequel adds a carrying strap to the portable TV
- Dell kills the XPS brand
- Honda Zero is ready to blast off with all-new sedan and SUV EVs
- Afeela has a price
- ‘Max Ink Mode’ makes TCL’s screens even inkier
- This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds
- A SodaStream for your Hydro Flask!
- Dreame’s latest robot vacuum can climb a step
- SwitchBot’s Multitasking Household Robot K20 Plus is a home-cleaning sentry
- Roborock debuts a robot vacuum with a robotic arm at CES
- Aqara launches three touchscreen smart home control panels at CES 2025
- The smart glasses era is here — I got a first look
- Mirumi is a furry little companion bot that imitates a shy infant
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