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The Vergecast

Facebook F8, Galaxy S8, and Juicero's fate

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Here we are! Another episode of The Vergecast. It’s been a busy week, which means lots for Nilay, Ashley, Dan, and Paul to talk about on the show. Facebook’s F8 developer conference took place this week so there’s lots of weird updates with AR, social VR, and mind reading. "It's two sci-fis at once," Paul says. And of course, the Galaxy S8 has been reviewed! Dan gives us his first-hand impressions, what his favorite features are, and whether he prefers it over the iPhone and the Pixel. And wow there’s a whole bunch of other stuff we talked about so listen through it all to keep feeding your brain 01:37 - Juicero offering refunds to all customers after people realize $400 juicer is totally unnecessary 06:34 - Samsung Galaxy S8 review: ahead of the curve 29:25 - Facebook F8 conference 2017 54:23 - Paul’s weekly segment “One day, not so far away, it may be possible for me to think in Mandarin and for you to feel instantly in Spanish” 55:39 - Plastc swiped $9 million from backers and just completely vanished 59:35 - Nintendo is reportedly planning to launch a miniature SNES before Christmas 1:00:17 - Intel's next-generation SSD technology is finally ready and it's really, really fast 1:00:51 - Slack is adding AIM-style custom status messages Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Vurchcast, the flagship podcast of the Verge.com.

0:09.3

A multi-channel media experience.

0:13.6

Here's what I'm going to tell you.

0:14.6

My name is Neil Epitell.

0:16.2

That is all I'm going to tell you for this week because I'm actually remote.

0:20.2

So I'm looking at a Skype feed of Dan Seafirt.

0:24.0

I waved, but I forgot this is an audio program.

0:28.1

Waved it me for the radio listeners.

0:32.0

Paul Miller is here.

0:33.3

Hello.

0:34.0

And Ashley Carman is here.

0:35.3

Yo.

0:36.5

So they're all in New York in our fancy studio.

0:39.1

And I am sitting in a closet on vacation, which is great.

0:42.8

I'm really excited to be in this closet.

0:44.4

Are you on an island?

0:46.8

I'm not on an island.

0:47.6

Because when it says Neelive vacation, I just assume island.

0:51.2

I think for like a long part of our history together,

0:55.4

when I've been on vacation, it's been very coastal, very, very,

0:59.6

each oriented.

1:00.4

But this time, now, I'm just in the mountains.

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