Hack the planet

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🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on Vergecast, it's Wilderness Week! Nilay, Paul, and Dieter welcome video director James Temple to the show to talk about his new Verge series, Climate Hackers, which features scientists set on trying to reverse the effects of climate change. The cast also goes into this week in tech: the performance of the Galaxy Note 7, Apple's rumored Snapchat clone, as well as Android Nougat and the problem with getting it on certain phones. 2:07 - Android Nougat 14:02 - Android update problem persists 18:41 - Note 7 performance 25:08 - Apple rumors 34:50 - Citi ad 35:22 - Climate Hackers with James Temple 47:03 - GraphicStock ad 48:19 - Paul's "Let me touch you with science" weekly segment 52:53 - Lightning round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is bad. I should start over.
0:02.0	Alright, let's do it.
0:08.0	Hello! Welcome to the Verge Test, the flagship podcast of the Verge.com.
0:12.0	The website, the Paul thinks is about everything.
0:16.0	Oh, he just put it on meaning.
0:18.0	On blast, Paul. Anyway, I want...
0:20.0	I want to talk about Play-Doh and jewelry.
0:24.0	Play-Doh, the malleable material, or Play-Doh, the ancient philosopher.
0:28.0	Actually.
0:30.0	There's a lot to be learned. Anyway, I'm Neil Napital.
0:32.0	I'm Paul Miller. I'm Deeter Bowen.
0:34.0	There you go.
0:36.0	It can be a great episode today.
0:38.0	Lots of stuff going on. We have a whole segment in the middle.
0:40.0	That's going to be fun. It's Wilderness Week.
0:42.0	It's Verge.com this week.
0:44.0	If you didn't know, lots of excellent wilderness content about being outside.
0:48.0	And honestly, a lot of gross things happen outside.
0:52.0	We wrote about them all.
0:54.0	But it was the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service.
0:58.0	As you know this, but T.C. Sadek, before he worked the Verge,
1:02.0	worked in the government, where he was a lobbyist.
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