David Pierce Profile and Activity

Editor-at-Large

David Pierce is The Verge's Editor-at-Large. In previous lives he worked at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. He owns all the phones.

He’s @imdavidpierce on Threads and davidpierce.11 on Signal.

Apps

Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs

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Jul 3|

Apple’s Vision Pro: five months later

On this episode of The Vergecast, a look back — and forward — at Apple’s headset.

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Jul 2|

The portable speakers you need this summer

Plus, in this week’s Installer: an AI app for reading anything, The Bear is back, an easy way to make websites, and much more.

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Jun 30|

Vergecast

The music industry’s AI fight

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Jun 28|

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“Be realistic, buddy. No one cares about you.”

The whole “my phone’s microphone is listening to me!” thing is one of my favorite internet debates. This McSweeney’s piece is very funny — and exactly correct about how it really works.

It’s not like there are hacks every day, and there will be more and more as time progresses, and some amoral lunatic on the dark web will eventually see a transcript of every in-person conversation you’ve ever had.

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

[McSweeney's Internet Tendency]

The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted

I thought I was buying an e-reader. And I was! But the smartphone-sized device does just enough other stuff that it now goes with me everywhere.

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Jun 25|

New chips, new screens, new gadgets

On The Vergecast: how an E Ink screen changes a smartphone and how Qualcomm chips and AI might change the PC world.

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Jun 25|

The new and improved Windows PCs are finally here

Plus: the excellent new Elden Ring DLC, a great calendar app for Windows, an AI history podcast, and much more.

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Jun 23|

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The excellent Arc browser now works on the iPad.

There are a lot of Arc fans here at The Verge, and I’ve come to like the Arc mobile app a lot as well. (Even if it is becoming a little too AI-y for my taste...) The latest update optimizes Arc for iPads, which, finally. Don’t expect fireworks — this is just straight-up the iPhone app on a bigger screen — but I’ll take it!

Download Arc

[The Browser Company]

Tech

Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots

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Jun 20|