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The Verge
12-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
Switch 2 size comparison: Nintendo's latest up next to a whole lot of consoles
We've talked many times on The Vergecast about the dream of the perfect charger. We call it The God Cable, and imagine it would charge everything, at full optimized speed, no matter what you plug in. Well, one company tried to make it – sort of. TwelveSouth founder Andrew Green joins the show to talk about how his company developed its newest product, the PowerCord, and why actually the God Cable might be both impossible and a bad idea. After that, The Verge's Tina Nguyen joins the show to talk about her experience at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, the rise of $TRUMP, and how crypto and the government became so intertwined. Finally, we answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline about AI agents, and the tasks we should (and shouldn't) offload to our chatbots.
The Verge
03-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
One company's quest for the perfect charger
As the tech world has standardized on USB-C, charging your devices has become much simpler. But it's still not simple enough. Sure, most things plug into most other things, but now you have to worry about power and data throughput, making sure that everything works properly with everything else. That's why we've spent years longing for what we call the God Cable: the one with fast enough everything to be the perfect charger for devices from phones to power tools. On this episode of The Vergecast, we start by talking about one company's effort to build its own version of the perfect charger. Twelve South didn't try to build the God Cable, and founder Andrew Green argues that you probably wouldn't want it even if he could get it made. He walks us through how his team developed the new PowerCord, why he thinks an integrated charger still makes sense for lots of people, and all the decisions you have to make to get your charger just right. After that, The Verge 's Tina Nguyen joins the show from the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas to talk all things crypto and politics. She tells us about the rise of $TRUMP, what the crypto community and the Trump administration want from each other, and whether the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act will actually amount to anything. Finally, we answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@ about which tasks we might be willing to offload to AI agents. It's a good question, and a tricky one, and we want to hear from you about it. Call the hotline, send us an email, and let us know: what are you willing to let an AI bot do you for, and what do you hope they might be able to do soon? And what are your big-screen tasks now? If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
