Amazon announces Ring security drone, new Echo devices, a gaming service, and a whole lot more

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Nilay, Dieter, and Dan discuss all the important announcements from Amazon's fall hardware event this week, from a security drone for your home to a new cloud gaming service. Stories discussed this week: CDC removes guidance about airborne spread of the coronavirus Averting a COVID-19 vaccination crisis will take careful communication Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house Ring announces new line of security cameras for cars Amazon will launch a new location-tracking mesh network system later this year Amazon’s fall hardware event: the 13 biggest announcements Amazon redesigns the Echo with a new spherical design and a custom machine learning processor Amazon’s new Echo show 10 moves to look at you Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays will soon stream Netflix video Amazon’s AZ1 Neural Edge processor will make Alexa voice commands even faster Alexa’s latest upgrades help it listen to multiple people and ask clarifying questions Amazon unveils new Guard Plus subscription for $4.99 per month Amazon announces new cloud gaming service called Luna Amazon’s Luna game streaming service is powered by Windows and Nvidia GPUs Amazon announces $29.99 Fire TV Stick Lite and upgraded Fire TV Stick The latest Eero mesh Wi-Fi routers support Wi-Fi 6 iPad 2020 review iOS 14 and iPadOS review: iPhone revolution, iPad evolution iOS 14 basics: how to add widgets to your iPhone’s home screen Fitbit Sense review: enough bugs to raise your heart rate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the VRTCHAS, we go through all the stuff Amazon announced at its event, Ring,
0:04.1	Echo, Luna, a game-streaming service, new Eros.
0:07.0	Talk a little bit about the new iPad review, iOS 14, and the Fitbit sense.
0:12.0	Coming up now on the VRTCHAS.
0:13.2	I'm Gideon Litchfield. I'm the editor-in-G for Void.
0:15.9	And I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:18.5	We're making a new show.
0:19.8	Have a nice future.
0:22.3	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:26.0	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:30.3	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:33.9	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:38.3	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:42.6	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:52.9	Hello and welcome to VRTCHAS.
0:54.8	flagship podcast of ambient computing.
0:57.8	Remember the days when we would just talk about ambient computing and everything seemed fine.
1:02.1	Yeah, but we computers everywhere.
1:04.2	And now we're like, what if there were less computers everywhere?
1:06.6	I'm Neil Hypatel, I'm your friend.
1:09.0	Dieter Bone is here.
1:10.1	I'm Neil Hucklebert.
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