The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Wednesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.

Happy Vergecast day! Look we’ve got a new logo! This week in honor of The Verge’s fifth anniversary and the redesign of the website we start off the show by giving some behind-the-scenes details on the new things you see on the site and things we’ve changed. But don’t worry we still have that weekly news you all subscribe for. Nilay Dieter Paul and Dan discuss using the Google Home speaker and how it works with the Google Assistant. Also we have reviews of the 13-inch Macbook Pro (yeah the one without the Touch Bar) Paul’s weekly segment “Cookie Pods” and some great ad reads in between. 01:49 - The Verge turns 5 15:58 - Google Home 27:49 - Google Assistant 40:35 - Macbook Pro 1:06:27 - Paul’s weekly segment “Cookie Pods” We want to thank the listeners new and old for tuning in each and giving feedback on the show we greatly appreciate it. A quote from Nilay on this week’s episode: “We launched The Verge basically on the back of this podcast. This podcast when Paul and I were doing it with Josh as the Engadget podcast was so popular that we could fucking leave and start a new podcast our listeners came with us and we were able to launch This Is My Next and then The Verge so it’s wild that we’ve done it for five years.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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