Our biggest stories and favorite things of 2024

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On The Vergecast: a look backmost astatine a twelvemonth that changed tech successful immense and caller ways.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Nov 29, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

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2024 is astir over, and it has been a year. The tech satellite has been shaken up a 100 times over, it seems: determination was the splashy Vision Pro launch, Google being declared a monopoly, endless AI hype, a hugely consequential US election, the ongoing political ascendance of Elon Musk, and different procreation of gadgets trying and failing to regenerate your smartphone. The manufacture looks antithetic than it did successful January; truthful does our narration with technology.

There’s inactive a period to go, and we’re not remotely acceptable to state this year’s tech quality dormant and gone, but fixed that it’s a vacation play successful the US we figured it mightiness beryllium clip for a look back. (Hope you had a large Thanksgiving, by the way!)

So connected this occurrence of The Vergecast, we invited a clump of Verge staffers to travel connected the amusement and archer america astir immoderate of the astir important things of 2024. We speech astir the biggest stories of the year, including the ones we’ll decidedly beryllium talking astir into 2025. We speech astir our favourite caller tech things from 2024, too, on with our favourite decidedly non-tech things.

Also, we person a favour to ask: for our occurrence connected December 10th, we’re doing a Vergecast each about... The Vergecast! And The Verge. And media successful general. And what we’re actually, like, doing here. And we privation your questions! Call the Vergecast Hotline — 866-VERGE11 — or email america astatine vergecast@theverge.com with each your astir meta questions, and we’ll get to arsenic galore arsenic we tin successful a mates of weeks.

If you privation to cognize much astir everyone’s picks, present are immoderate links to get you started: