Android Wear 2.0, Google Smart Home, and Vizio gets caught

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Vergecast, we’re in our new office! But our studios aren’t ready yet! So Nilay and Paul set up in a conference room and Skype with Dieter to share what they learned in the tech world over the past seven days. We even recorded it for you! Here it is. 01:54 - Android Wear 2.0 14:52 - Google Assistant on phone and smart home 27:02 - Apple's Ultra Accessory Connector dashes any hopes of a USB-C iPhone 32:08 - Fidget cube 33:56 - Most smart TVs are tracking you — Vizio just got caught 43:52 - Paul’s weekly segment “Please don’t talk to me, can’t you see I’m busy?” 47:13 - Neckbuds 51:30 - The Nintendo Switch is missing a golden tablet opportunity 57:16 - Lightning round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were really mean last week, but that's what the people like.
0:02.8	They like it when we tear each other down.
0:04.4	Yeah.
0:04.9	Then we build each other back up.
0:06.8	Like Lego.
0:07.8	Yeah.
0:12.3	Hello, welcome to the merch cast, the flagship podcast of the verge.com, which is kind of
0:18.5	been a, like, an ephemeral media experience that just wraps around you wherever you are
0:23.0	on the internet.
0:24.0	That's what I'm saying now instead of a website.
0:26.4	And an ephemeral media experience.
0:28.4	Yeah.
0:29.2	That's it finds you.
0:30.8	I'm great at conferences.
0:32.0	If the verge is an ephemeral media experience, would that mean that the flagship is therefore
0:35.9	a ghost ship?
0:36.9	Yeah.
0:37.9	It says a ghost ship.
0:38.9	Like in the new Johnny Depp Pirates movie.
0:42.3	This is the worst, worst average for Johnny Depp movie I've ever seen.
0:45.7	What's the call Pirates?
0:46.7	It's an European.
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