Super Mario Run, Uber's self-driving cars, and Apple's new TV app

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Everyone was in New York this week, so we had a jam-packed studio with Nilay, Dieter, and Paul, along with culture reporter Megan Farokhmanesh and transportation reporter Andrew Hawkins. Megan joins us on Vergecast for the first time to talk about what dominates the site this week: Nintendo’s new mobile game Super Mario Run, and the new Star Wars film Rogue One (no spoilers). Meanwhile, Andrew enlightens us on what is going on in the world of self-driving cars: Uber’s autonomous cars in San Francisco, and Google’s new car company Waymo. There’s a lot more along with that so hit play and drive. 02:21 - Super Mario Run 14:41 - Rogue One 23:16 - Uber / Google self-driving car news with Andrew Hawkins 45:39 - Lightning round (kinda) starts here 45: 48 - Apple TV app 54:48 - AirPods 58:17 - Paul’s weekly segment “Speaking of Things You Can’t Buy” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we're gonna start the merch cast for real in just a second, but I want to tell you something really exciting.
0:03.8	The merch cast is gonna be back on video live at CES on Twitter.
0:09.0	January 4th, 5th and 6th, we live for 90 minutes every day from CES big video production on Twitter.
0:16.1	It'll be at the top of the stream, just like NFL games. It's gonna be crazy.
0:20.4	And we're gonna do a 90 minute live show with all the latest gadgets from CES,
0:23.9	all the executives who can convince to come on the show and get yelled at for not doing good enough gadgets.
0:27.5	But we'll convince them anyway. And a bunch of friends from the VERSH team like Paul and Ashley and everybody else,
0:32.8	Lauren Good, Casey Newton, it's gonna be really fun.
0:35.4	VERSH cast live video on Twitter, January 4th, 5th and 6th.
0:40.0	It's gonna be super exciting. Stay tuned.
0:46.8	Hello and welcome to the VERSH cast, the flagship podcast of VERSH.com.
0:50.7	This episode of the VERSH cast, it's brought to you by a vodka company that I invented.
0:54.7	It's called Cesar Vaca.
0:55.9	Let's you cut through the night.
0:56.8	I don't know why I always find it funny.
0:58.5	It keeps going and going.
1:00.0	It keeps going.
1:00.8	I was in a party last night.
1:01.8	I was actually at Josh Paulski's outline launch party last night.
1:04.5	It was a good party.
1:05.3	And somebody came up and said a five minute conversation with me about Cesar Vaca.
1:09.1	And I was like, it's not real.
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