Quibi's launch week, Asus laptop reviews, and Sony's PS5 controller

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Stories discussed this week: Webcams have become impossible to find, and prices are skyrocketing Why the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories don’t make sense UK mobile carriers politely ask people to stop burning 5G towers No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic Foxconn will produce ventilators at its controversial Wisconsin plant Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules Nvidia’s RTX Super GPUs for laptops have arrived — here’s where you’ll see them first Asus’ ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is a gaming laptop with two screens MSI announces new laptops with Comet Lake H and new Nvidia GPUs Gigabyte’s latest gaming laptop supports Intel’s most powerful 10th Gen Core i9 processor yet Razer’s new Blade 15 has powerful specs and an improved keyboard Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review Asus Chromebook Flip C436 review Microsoft reportedly delays Surface Neo beyond 2020 Can Meg Whitman outwit a pandemic with Quibi? Quibi app review: shifting landscape Quibi’s shows are fun, familiar, and a little forgettable It’s impossible to screenshot a Quibi show, and that’s detrimental to its success Disney Plus surpasses 50 million subscribers Sony reveals new DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5 Microsoft’s Xbox Game Bar is getting custom widgets and its own store on Windows The OnePlus 8 Pro will have super fast, 30W wireless charging Google’s midrange Pixel 4A could launch soon, and there may not be an XL version Google’s Hangouts Meet is now just Google Meet Google extends free access to advanced teleconferencing features to September 30th Google trademarks 'Google Meet' and 'Google Chat,' support ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Vergecast, a new Verge Laptop review
0:02.0	of Monica Chin joins us to talk about a bunch of laptops,
0:04.9	including the Zeus Zefrus G14,
0:07.3	Samson Galaxy Chromebook, the Zeus Chromebook Flip,
0:09.7	the new one, Julia Alexander joins us to talk about Quibi,
0:13.0	that launched this week, and we get into a bunch of stuff,
0:15.2	including the new PlayStation 5 controller.
0:17.3	That's coming up on the Vergecast now.
0:19.2	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor in GVVoyard.
0:21.7	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:24.2	We're making a new show.
0:26.1	Have a nice future.
0:28.1	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:31.7	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:36.0	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:39.6	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face,
0:41.6	about the challenges they're creating,
0:44.0	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:48.3	So make sure you follow have a nice future wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.8	Hi, I'm Leo Laporte, founder and host at TWIT.
0:57.2	When it comes to covering all things tech,
0:59.0	there's a lot to report every week on our flagship podcast.
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