CES 2020 roundtable: Concept cars, Quibi, foldables, and more

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Ashley Carman, and Sean O'Kane highlight the most important, weird, and surprising things The Verge saw at CES 2020. Stories from this episode: Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks Amazon’s hardware boss responds to Sonos accusations of stolen technology Sony’s electric car is the best surprise of CES Byton’s 48-inch screen might not be as distracting as it looks Mercedes-Ben’s Avatar-themed concept car with scales Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S Segway S-Pod Quibi versus the world Spotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads 2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe Foldable and dual-screen laptops desperately need Windows 10X Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen PS5 logo Intel NUC Extreme platform Neon CEO explains the tech behind his overhyped ‘artificial humans’ Samsung’s ‘artificial humans’ are just digital avatars This is Intel’s first discrete graphics card in 20 years, but you can’t buy one Samsung’s Ballie The most promising AirPower alternative isn’t ready yet Royole’s new smart speaker has a wraparound touch display Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the Vergecast, Ashley Karmann and Sean O'Kane join the show to talk about everything
0:04.0	that's been happening in CS. We get into the Sonos, Lost It Against Google, talk about all the
0:07.3	car news here, into the streaming wars in Quibi, and some foldable PCs that's going up on the Vergecast.
0:12.4	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor in Chief of Oiod.
0:15.1	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:17.6	We're making a new show. Have a nice future.
0:21.5	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:25.0	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:29.2	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:32.8	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:37.2	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:41.6	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.2	Hello, welcome to Vergecast, the flagship podcast of this moment.
0:55.0	I'm your friend, Eli. Peter Brown is here.
0:57.2	Egg, egg, egg, I don't know.
0:59.0	Egg, egg, egg.
1:00.2	We foolishly invited Sean O'Kane here.
1:02.4	You're welcome.
1:03.6	Ashley Carman's here.
1:04.5	I missed the egg memo.
1:05.8	I don't really know, so we'll get there.
1:07.2	There's a lot happening.
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