Chat for Android, Nintendo Labo, and Motorola (like a) G6

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It was a slow week until Google decided to attempt another fix for Android messaging and Nintendo made the entire staff fall in love with cardboard. Nilay’s still on paternity leave, but Dieter and Paul are joined again by Technology Editor Natt Garun to explain it all. We also jumped on the hot-button issues like the Russian ban of Telegram and how Alexa Skill Blueprints aren’t Turing complete. And, of course, Paul’s weekly segment “Ring-a-ding-ding” has all the insightful Bluetooth MIDI accessory commentary you crave. 1:20 - Chat for Android 20:48 - Telegram 29:22 - Nintendo Labo 37:41 - Amazon Skill Blueprints 41:09 - Motorola G6 43:44 - Paul’s Weekly Segment "Ring-a-ding-ding" 46:39 - New free Spotify 48:51 - RIP vaunt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that 16 million new collar jobs will be created by 2024 to help fill them IBM's new education model will give high school students workplace experience and an associate degree.
0:11.4	90 p-tech schools are already preparing graduates for tomorrow's STEM careers.
0:15.8	Let's put smart to work find out more and how at IBM dot com slash p tech.
0:22.0	Hello and welcome to the verge cast or since Niela is still I'm trying to leave I will say greetings mobile accomplishers.
0:36.2	I am Deeter Bohn. I am joined by Nat Karen and Paul's here to high Paul. Hello.
0:44.1	How you guys doing? Good. Good. So I think this episode we're going to bring back something in honor of Motorola's announcements.
0:52.0	I think that this episode needs to be sponsored by Cesar vodka.
0:56.0	Up through the night because Motorola released a G6. It's like a G6.
1:01.0	It's like a G6. It's Motorola's version.
1:04.9	It's not the G6.
1:09.1	No, but we'll get to that. We'll get to that. There's other stuff. So as you're listening to this on Friday,
1:15.9	because I guarantee you that you downloaded it right away, right when I released it, because I don't know,
1:20.5	actually, maybe you didn't anyway. On Thursday night, we released a story.
1:25.4	I released a story worked on by a bunch of other people made a great video about Android chat.
1:33.0	Or actually, it's just called chat. It's just called chat.
1:35.5	Not just not to be confused with Google chat.
1:38.1	Not Google chat. It's Android. It's not G chat. It's not G chat.
1:42.5	It's not a G talk. This is already starting real great.
1:46.1	Not hangouts. Not all of.
1:47.7	So almost to the day.
1:50.0	So we went down to Google.
1:51.9	We talked to the person who's now in charge of the communication team.
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