Galaxy S9 review, Android P, and Google tries to fix the web (live @ SXSW 2018)

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 10 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, The Vergecast is down in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest 2018 in front of a live audience. Nilay, Dieter, Casey, and Ashley run through the news and share their expertise about Google’s new plan to make the web faster, using Samsung’s Galaxy S9, and Android P for developer testing. If you wanted to see the show, sorry you missed it! But good news for you, I recorded it so you can listen to it whenever you want. And here’s the articles discussed on the show this week: 00:45 - Google’s latest plan could change how you browse the web 10:03 - Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs 17:16 - Samsung Galaxy S9 review 27:17 - Android P is available for developer testing 32: 57 - Paul’s weekly segment “Shoes — You’ve got em” 35:24 - On Twitter, lies spread faster than the truth 41:02 - Snap confirms layoffs of ‘just over 120’ engineers 45:00 - Barack Obama is reportedly planning Netflix shows 50:59 - Q&A Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergeast. The flagship podcast about me. I don't know if she
0:12.3	knows that joke. I don't know if the CEO of the company knows that for a year I've been
0:17.6	calling our show the flagship podcast. Jim Knight, you know, thanks buddy. I appreciate
0:22.5	your support. I'm you, I'm the student. It's Casey. It's Ashley. Paul, maybe making an appearance
0:27.9	in some form later, you never know. We should start with news. Sure. We're at South by
0:32.9	Southwest. There's a lot going on and I was not joking when I threatened you with Web
0:38.1	Standards talk. We're going to start with AMP because Dieterbone is the only personal
0:43.0	world who understands Google's AMP project. It's a very useful. I know there are people
0:46.9	watching on the stream on YouTube, but we're at South by Southwest Interactive, which is
0:51.2	a show for webinars. It's a conference for like webinars. And I assume these are webinars.
0:56.4	I want you to sound smart at parties later on. So Dieter is just going to be issuing sound
1:03.8	bites for an extra few minutes, being like, Web packaging is the future of distribution
1:08.5	in a trustless environment. And then you can just say that whenever you want over the weekend.
1:13.4	That was really good. I'm in it. Web packaging is a future of distribution in a trustless
1:17.6	environment. There you go. We're going to say everybody. All right, Dieter, tell us what
1:21.0	is going on. All right. So everybody hates AMP. Nobody likes it. Well, quickly define
1:26.4	what AMP. Okay. AMP stands for accelerated mobile pages. And it is the origin story of
1:31.2	AMP is two years ago. There was Apple news. There was Facebook instant articles. And we,
1:36.5	at the verge, were doomed because we knew that instead of just publishing to the web,
1:39.8	we would have to publish two 50 different things. Flipboard and blah, blah, blah, blah. So
1:45.3	Google said, well, we can fix that. We're going to make a thing. And it's going to be
1:49.1	the web, which is baitable. But then you will be able to take that thing and then it will
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