Uber’s CEO resigns, Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality, and Bixby first look

The Vergecast

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Here we go, another classic episode of The Vergecast. There were a lot of little things that happened this week, and we wanted to discuss them all, so Nilay, Dieter, and Paul go through their list of hits on the site. Also, to continue our weekly summer interview series, Nilay sits down with culture reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany to talk about her recent piece on Tumblr’s relationship with the fight over net neutrality. There’s so much in between all of this, so listen to it all, and you’ll get it all. 01:17 - OnePlus 5 4:29 - Scott Forstall breaks silence to talk about the iPhone’s creation 10:34 - First look at Samsung’s Bixby Voice preview for Galaxy S8 13:58 - Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 will reportedly be announced in August 17:10 - Amazon's new Dash Wand is half magic, half boring 21:12 - You can now watch your smart home camera from an Amazon Echo Show 27:48 - Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality with Kaitlyn Tiffany 45:36 - Travis Kalanick resigns as Uber CEO 1:00:00 - Paul’s weekly segment “My Dinner with Andre” 1:02:59 - iPad Pro 12.9 review: a great iPad, one I won’t buy 1:03:57 - 3.33 years after its release, someone actually beat Threes 1:04:58 - Microsoft now lets Surface Laptop owners revert to Windows 10 S 1:07:11 - You won’t be able to use your Surface Book if you want to take the bar in Tennessee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge premium network.
0:12.2	There's only one podcast.
0:14.4	I'm still not over control of sleeping over.
0:16.9	Still thinking about it.
0:17.9	But anyway, this is the Vergecast.
0:19.8	The flagship podcast of the Verge multi-channel media experience.
0:24.6	I'm Neil Epitel and the editor in chief of the Verge.
0:27.2	I'm joined by kind of an OG crew today.
0:30.1	Paul Miller is here.
0:31.1	Hello.
0:32.0	Dieter Bohn is here.
0:33.3	Hello.
0:34.0	How's it going, Neil?
0:35.1	It's going.
0:36.1	Yeah, I was putting together a rundown.
0:38.1	This was a very, it was like a lot of news this week.
0:41.1	And all of it was of medium size.
0:43.7	I was unable to help you with the rundown
0:45.1	because I was yelling at Samsung, or you say,
0:47.0	it is about fixed fee, which I think we should talk about later.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.8	So there was big tech news.
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