Microsoft’s Edge Chromium launches, NBC reveals Peacock details, and our CES takeaways

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Stories this week: The Verge Awards at CES 2020: welcome to the land of the concept Eight big takeaways from CES 2020 These gaming PCs want to compete in the console wars Laptops were boring at CES, but there’s hope for the future The most important TVs of CES 2020 were finally for the masses Microsoft’s new Edge Chromium browser launches on Windows and macOS How to install extensions on Microsoft’s new Edge browser The browser wars are back, but it’s different this time Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow Google to 'phase out' third-party cookies in Chrome, but not for ... Roomba’s robot vacuum could grow arms in the near future OnePlus confirms its next phone will jump to a 120Hz screen Latest Galaxy S20 Plus leak shows off 120Hz display and no … Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and its many cameras revealed in leaked photos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the VRTCHAS, a little bit of CES wrap up,
0:02.4	future of TVs, folding screens, all of it.
0:04.8	We get into the browser wars.
0:06.4	Microsoft has a new version of Edge Out,
0:08.2	and we talk about the future of streaming NBC's Peacock
0:11.0	launched literally while we are talking on the show.
0:13.3	That's coming up on the VRTCHAS now.
0:15.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield.
0:16.0	I'm the editor in Chief of OYED.
0:17.6	And I'm Lauren Good.
0:18.6	I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:20.1	We're making a new show.
0:21.9	Have a nice future.
0:24.0	I'm more have a nice future.
0:26.1	Question mark.
0:27.6	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:31.8	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:35.4	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face
0:37.5	about the challenges they're creating
0:39.8	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty
0:43.2	as we all do.
0:44.1	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future,
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