The Vergecast at CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets

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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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A photo of a CES logo sign, on top of a Vergecast illustration.

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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.

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 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 on stage 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:

Then on all things CES:

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