WWDC, Sonos Beam, and Microsoft buys Github

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference happened this week, and Nilay, Dieter, Jake, and Ashley are on top of it. Second half of the show, we’ve got Dieter’s exclusive look at the Sonos Beam, Microsoft buying GitHub, a new Fire TV thingy, and breaking news for Essential. There’s a whole lot more in between that — like Paul’s weekly segment (hosted by Jake Kastrenakes) “Hey look at this thing I just found on theverge.com“ — so if you listen to it all, you’ll get it all. 02:48 - Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 04:35 - Siri will soon be able to pull off multistep routines through Shortcuts 15:40 - Walkie-Talkie on the Apple Watch is a clever riff on FaceTime Audio 19:01 - Apple’s Memoji lets you create an Animoji of yourself 23:35 - Apple CarPlay will soon let you use Google Maps, Waze, and other third-party maps 25:21 - Apple will let developers port iOS apps to macOS in 2019 33:51 - The Apple TV is finally getting Dolby Atmos support 38:56 - The Essential Phone’s first new module since launch is a magnetic headphone jack 41:02 - The Beam is Sonos’ ambitious attempt to win the living room 50:40 - Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streaming box, and universal remote in one 55:05 - Paul’s weekly segment “Hey look at this thing I just found on theverge.com” by Jake 57:30 - Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion 1:00:07 - Facebook accused of giving over 60 device makers inappropriate access to user data 1:06:06 - Instagram might soon let you post videos up to an hour long 1:09:48 - California’s net neutrality bill could set a national standard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.9	Hello, welcome to Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Vox Media, a thing that I just keep saying
0:32.3	because no one stops me. It seems true. It's if I keep saying it, it's true. You can sell off
0:37.6	of that too. Yeah, are you an advertiser? Yeah. Would you like to be on the flagship? Anyway, I'm
0:42.7	Neely. Paul Miller is on vacation this week. He's out, but Jay Castro-Akkas is here. I have
0:47.2	mind-melded with Paul and can fully service first. You're speaking in him right now. That's
0:52.0	actually terrifying. This is some Westworld stuff. Knowing Paul as well as we all do, mind-man-melding
0:57.2	with Paul Beats is a true experience. Great segment to tell you about later. Oh, are you doing it? No.
1:02.4	Will you just sign up? This is a circuit breaker out of there. You're in it. I figured out. Ashley Carmen is here.
1:07.6	Hello. So it's like a little circuit breaker reunion. The reunion. After we see each other every day.
1:13.6	Hey, Paul. Indeed, I was here. Can I just say, people ask me if I'm a Westworld fan and my response
1:20.1	is always the same. I watch Westworld. Yeah. Westworld is a truly confounding show. Last season was
1:28.2	the same thing. It's just not good. Okay. I know you're supposed to suspend your disbelief with
1:34.0	a show. And this is spoiler-suff you haven't been watching. Just like close your mind. Stop your car
1:39.0	walk away for the next 30 seconds. They're in the cradle, right? Yeah. And Ford's like,
1:43.9	my brain only works in the cradle. But if I was in the real world. Yeah. And it's like the
1:48.7	fuck, that's not how computers work. Like, my brain can run on this simulation. But if I give myself
1:55.3	some robot arms, I'll decay and fall. It's like, that's not how anything works. Okay. Spoiler over.
2:02.4	I can't believe that is your biggest problem. It's just, yeah. But no, it's the one I can like
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