Zuckerberg testifies, Spotify hardware, and Huawei P20 Pro review

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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After a week of Facebook-intensive news, The Vergecast is here to break it all down for you. Nilay is out this week, so Dieter and Paul welcome senior editor Natt Garun and Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton to the show to go over all the news. Even though Mark Zuckerberg took up most of the site this week, there was a still a lot of other stuff happening. Spotify may be releasing some hardware products, we reviewed the Huawei P20 Pro, and the cast gets into some classic talk about the web. There’s a whole lot more in between that — like Paul’s weekly segment “Record resolution revolution” — so listen to it all, and you’ll get it all. 02:03 - Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of Congress 33:17 - Spotify’s first hardware device might be this music player for your car 43:00 - Apple’s RED iPhone 8 43:37 - Huawei P20 Pro review 49:15 - Paul’s weekly segment “Record resolution revolution” 51:34 - Web apps are only getting better 52:52 - HP goes up against the iPad Pro with its $599 Chromebook x2 52:56 - This is the new Gmail design Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.1	Tech-as-and-tack.
0:31.9	Hello and welcome to The Verge Cast Greetings Mobile Compressors. This is a flagship podcast
0:36.5	of TheVerge.com. I am Deeter Bone. Nielai is not here and maybe if you're nice,
0:42.8	we'll tell you why. I am joined by lovely people, Paul Miller is here.
0:48.4	Hello. Nat Garen is here.
0:50.2	It's been a while.
0:51.1	Casey Newton is here.
0:52.2	What up?
0:52.8	We're going to have the whole staff on because that's what we have to do when we don't have Nielai.
0:56.2	No, no, Nielai is not here because Nielai is a father. He's on maternity leave.
1:02.2	Go find him on Instagram at reckless and like the picture of the baby.
1:07.6	Very cute baby. Very cute baby. She is very cute. Her name is Max Maxwell. Max Malsaya.
1:13.2	Max. That's beautiful. Max Maxwell. No, just Max Maxwell. Max for short. I suspect most people will
1:20.5	call her Max. But yeah, she's a happy baby. Nielai seems to be a happy dad. I'm sure he's going to be
1:26.3	fine. He'll be fine. Yes, I think that this will be a great thing for him.
1:31.8	I think it's actually important for technology journalists to have children in their lives because
1:36.1	it is the children that are going to tell them what is the next new important thing to focus on.
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