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The Vergecast

Google Cloud Next Conference, Iron Fist, and Hot Tinder

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Vergecast, the ladies of The Verge take over the show. Did you know that nearly half of the team is female? Seriously, we’re probably two women away from a 50 / 50 split, but you’d never know that if you only listened to The Vergecast! That’s why, in honor of International Women’s Day this week (and Women’s History Month all month!), we have Megan Farokhmanesh, Adi Robertson, Natt Garun, and Ashley Carman in the studio talking about Google’s big and enterprise-y week, Iron Fist, and the exclusive, invite-only version of Tinder for mega-hotties. Whatever that last thing is. Culture reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany also joins in to tell us her account of the Women’s Day strike. 00:49 - International Women’s Day 10:49 - Google's giant 4K digital whiteboard, Jamboard, will cost $4,999 13:55 - Google’s Gboard will now translate text into another language as you type 15:32 - Google confirms small number of Pixel phones have broken microphones 17:35 - Google Hangouts is getting a major overhaul to take on Slack 21:39 - Google can now recognize objects in videos using machine learning 23:55 - Iron Fist isn't just racially uncomfortable, it's also a boring show 28:45 - There’s a secret version of Tinder for hot people and you can’t use it 36:31 - Ashley’s weekly segment “Yo, when will I be able to afford this phone case?” 39:32 - The CIA is hacking Samsung Smart TVs, according to WikiLeaks docs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge.com.

0:08.4

I'm not Nila Patel, which you might have already guessed.

0:11.2

We're actually going to do a special episode this week because maybe you listen to the

0:15.0

Vergecast before, maybe you haven't, but it's usually run by Nila and Deeter, which

0:19.4

you know would probably make you think there are that many women who work at the Verge.

0:23.0

Turns out we have a lot of women on staff and they are here to talk with us today.

0:28.0

So this week was not only International Women's Day, but also was a really important

0:31.9

day because of the day without a woman's strike.

0:35.3

So to talk about it, we've got me, your host Megan Frobenesch, but I'm also here hosting

0:40.0

with Nat Garen.

0:41.3

Hey, we've got Adi Robertson, Ashley Carmen, who is currently not here, but we'll be here

0:46.8

in about 10 minutes.

0:48.4

And we are going to kick this off.

0:50.1

Cool.

0:51.1

So International Women's Day was on Wednesday, a majority of the Verge staff decided to

0:56.4

partake in the strike, which I found really profound because I got here in the office

1:00.5

and it was extremely quiet.

1:02.4

And the only people here were me and Adi.

1:04.3

And it was really strange walking into an empty room.

1:06.8

I mean, you walked here and then like there's just nobody, like the social team was not

1:11.4

here.

1:12.4

And I feel like everybody was sort of freaking out.

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