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The Vergecast

Galaxy S8 hands-on, FCC privacy rulings, and Ghost in the Shell

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back! We have a great show for you today. No really! If you listen to this podcast, you know Samsung announced the Galaxy S8 this week, so Nilay and Dieter bring in senior editor and friend of the show Dan Seifert; who recently took a trip to South Korea to tour Samsung’s headquarters. Second half of the show, news editor Jake Kastrenakes joins to discuss his coverage of the FCC and privacy ruling in Congress. There’s even more! Megan Farokhmanesh is here to enlighten the crew on the culture side of site; Persona 5 and Ghost in the Shell. Theres a bunch of little topics sprinkled in between this focused episode, so listen through to find them all. 00:43 - Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S8 17:46 - Samsung’s Bixby assistant 33:13 - Persona 5 review 42:16 - Ghost in the Shell review 50:23 - FCC reporting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

It's a podcast.

0:10.0

That's what it is.

0:11.0

We like it.

0:12.0

Anyway, I'm Ney.

0:13.0

Deeders here.

0:14.0

Deeders in the mood.

0:15.0

I'm going to angry mood.

0:16.0

I just want everyone to be okay with that.

0:18.0

If you're in your car, just know that every time Deeder talks, you're going to feel the

0:22.0

instinct to slam on the brakes, get out of the car and run away.

0:24.0

You can see your fear for your life.

0:26.0

But Megan's here.

0:27.0

Hi, Megan.

0:28.0

Hi.

0:29.0

I'm the first half of the show, Dan C. Fritz here.

0:31.0

Hey.

0:32.0

How are you?

0:33.0

A little bit later, Jay Castranco is here to talk about the internet, which is slowly being taken

0:35.4

away from us to the people and handed to the evil corporation.

0:38.4

But first, we have distractions.

0:40.4

But first, we have great distractions.

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