Zuckerberg's smart home, Android Wear, and CES predictions

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As the year ends, Nilay, Dieter, Paul, and Ross gather together from across the country via Skype to sit down and bring up what’s been troubling them this week. Nilay can’t stand Mark Zuckerberg’s video about his home AI, Dieter doesn’t know what laptop to take to CES, Paul feels that emoji is too totalitarian, and Ross...is already in holiday mode. Grab a glass of eggnog (from justthenog.com) and sit beside the fire with your favorite tech luminaries of 2016. 04:11 - Mark Zuckerberg’s “smart home” 14:56 - Rogue One talk (level 4 spoilers 16:51-18:01) 17:59 - laptops 22:42 - Apple, Macbook batteries, and new desktops 26:23 - Emoji consortium 28:52 - AirPods review 34:58 - Android Wear 43:34 - CES 2017 predictions 55:08 - Paul's weekly segment "WebOS still exists, Dieter. Are you sad?" 59:19 - Dieter note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Can we do an ad for like a
0:03.2	Acknowledg subscription service?
0:06.5	Yeah, just the nog calm.
0:09.1	Just a dog and it's nothing.
0:11.1	It's just a field, right?
0:12.9	And you just type your credit card number into the field.
0:15.6	And it, you know, on the server side, it's a very advanced.
0:18.4	It figures out who you are, figures out your address.
0:21.3	And then dog shows up.
0:23.3	Just a mod card field, just a dog.
0:25.5	Come.
0:29.8	Hello, this is the verge cast.
0:31.1	We don't have any ads today.
0:32.6	We don't really have a show run down.
0:34.4	It's, it's, it's sort of a loose holiday.
0:36.8	Get together.
0:38.0	Andrew's going to play a roaring fire sound effect for us.
0:41.9	Just some old friends who started the verge together a long time ago.
0:45.2	I'm Neil Epitel.
0:46.0	Deeter Bohn is in San Francisco.
0:48.0	Hey, Deeter.
0:48.3	Hello, I am here.
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