Hello and welcome to the Vergecast. Today is February 11th, 2016. My name is Chris

Ziggler. No, my name is Neely Patel. Today actually, you may notice there is a lack of

Deeter Neely here. We've put them in a closet. They are concealed for the moment. No, actually,

Deeter's wedding is this weekend. He is far, far away. Yes. It's like a clapping culture.

No applause. Hooray for Deeter. For Deeter. Well deserved. So he is not in the country.

Nor is Neely. I'm Subbing. Joined by Sean O'Kane. Lauren Grush. I think you've both been on

the Vergecast before, right? So you're familiar. Yeah. Familiar to the Verge audience. And then in

the hype desk, we have not one, but two people joining us. Double hype desk. Kristen

Fricina and Mark Lensangin, one of our video directors who is a hype beast for phones.

Am I right, Mark? Yes, Chris. Yes. Very much so. Hipe check phones. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10.

Yeah. All phones. Right now. Just hype check phones in general. So if you're joining us,

first of all, you're not joining us. Let's not get ourselves because

easy season three just kicked off. And the life of Pablo live stream is supposed to be happening

right now. Lauren's face is like. Yeah. The life of Pablo is supposed to be live streaming right now

in title. But I'm hearing this is live information being piped into my skull that there are problems

with that stream. So if you're taking a break from it to see what we're up to, thank you for that.

Hopefully you won't tune back once the stream starts because we want to keep your attention

for the next hour undivided. Actually, Andrew, our producer, and I were joking earlier that we

should just put picture and picture. Easy season three, picture and picture and then have the

life of Pablo kind of playing in the background this entire idea. I like that idea. I also like

that I mean, we're about to talk about a really crazy scientific discovery. And that happened

yet live streaming and video conferencing are still like the biggest trash virus in technology.

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