Your front door is the key to the smart home

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to discuss a bunch of updates in the smart home world, including what's new from Google Home and in iOS 18, plus some big news in the world of smart locks and video doorbells. Then, The Verge's Chris Welch comes on to test some new earbuds, and see which pair has the best sound – and the best mic. After that, a new take on the Vergecast's chaotic wearables theory. Further reading: Ki is bringing wireless power to kitchen appliances The Eufy Smart Lock E30 is the company’s first Matter device The Ultraloq Bolt Mission from U-tec is the first smart lock with UWB Assa Abloy buys Level Lock to bolster its smart lock business TP-Link Tapo D225 Video Doorbell Camera review Ring’s entry-level wireless doorbell gets a head-to-toe view iOS 18 lets you control Matter devices without a smart home hub The Thread 1.4 spec is here, but it will be a while until we see any benefit Google TV gets a big upgrade Google is set to supercharge Google Home with Gemini intelligence And on wireless earbuds: The best wireless earbuds to buy right now Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are its best earbuds yet Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: big upgrade, much smaller earbuds Bose’s new QuietComfort Earbuds offer top-tier ANC for under $200 Apple AirPods 4 review: defying expectations Nothing’s first open-ear headphones keep you aware of your surroundings Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of powered front doors, which is a thing that I just
0:09.0	learned exists thanks to this episode. I'm your friend David Pierce and I am cooped up inside and have been for several days
0:16.8	Obviously a lot of people in the US have been really
0:20.1	Horribly affected by Hurricane Helene.
0:23.0	I hope you're all doing okay.
0:24.4	Our thoughts are obviously with everyone
0:26.6	dealing with all of that.
0:28.3	Where I am, it's been fine, it's just basically
0:30.9	been raining for four days, and my kid has been out of daycare and he's been sick and so it's just been a lot of inside time
0:38.4	It's been a lot of running around in the basement. It's been a lot of watching the same old McDonald had a
0:43.6	farm YouTube video over and over. It's just been a lot. You just grow to
0:48.8	appreciate outside more and more. I'm in a real like touch grass moment except it's still raining so there will be no grass touching for a little while even the dog over there is starting to lose it a little bit I think but anyway luckily we the Virge Cast to keep us on track and doing stuff. Today we have two things we're going to do. First, we're going to catch up with Gen Toey about all things Smart Home. There's been a lot this summer.
1:13.0	She was at IFA looking at smart home gadgets.
1:15.0	We have some protocol news with Matter and Thread.
1:18.0	We have a bunch of stuff going on with Google and Apple and software updates everywhere
1:22.0	and all kinds of fun stuff to talk about.
1:24.0	So we're just gonna kind of play Round Robin and catch up with her.
1:27.0	Then we're gonna talk to Chris Welch about this new run of earbuds that we have this year.
1:31.0	Apple just released some new ones, Google released some new ones Apple just released some new ones,
1:33.0	Google released some new ones,
1:34.0	Samsung released some new ones,
1:35.2	Bo's released some new ones,
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