Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast Vox Media Podcast Network

A lot happened this week! Google dropped Gemini (its latest AI model) and a few new Pixel features as well. Marques and David discuss it all along with a few EV stories and the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer. Of course, we wrap it all up with trivia! Enjoy!

Links:
Google Messages features: https://bit.ly/3TbatuP
Beeper Mini: https://www.beeper.com/
Google Gemini: https://bit.ly/486JZyN
Pixel Feature Drop: https://bit.ly/46PxAOw
Toyota EV's: https://bit.ly/3NhMI0c
30 New Honda EV's: https://bit.ly/3RbKwbR

Shop products mentioned:
Google Pixel 8 Pro: https://geni.us/T7hygNh

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Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

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Music by 20syl:
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This week, Marques and David and joined at the big table by Ellis for a discussion about the Cybertruck! They recount their experiences driving the truck and talk about every quirk and feature they can think of. Besides that, they also talk about Dbrand suing Casetify and go over the Spotify Wrapped for the pod. Of course, we wrap it up with trivia! Enjoy.

Links:
JerryRigEverything video: https://bit.ly/DbrandvCasetify
Google Geothermal Project: https://bit.ly/googlegeothermal

Shop the merch:
https://shop.mkbhd.com

Instagram/Threads/Twitter:
Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:
https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

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This week, Marques and David discuss the big news of the week including Apple agreeing to add RCS to its Messages app. After that David walks us through everything that happened with OpenAI before Marques talks about what it was like to go to his first F1 race. Of course, we wrap it all up with trivia! Hope you enjoy.

P.S - Shoutout to 9to5Mac for breaking the RCS story and the Verge for their amazing coverage and reporting on the OpenAI situation. We've linked them down below!

Links:
Apple Adds RCS: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
OpenAI stories:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965982/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired

https://www.theverge.com/23966325/openai-sam-altman-fired-turmoil-chatgpt


Shop the merch:
https://shop.mkbhd.com

Instagram/Threads/Twitter:
Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:
https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

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This week, Marques and David jump right into a bunch of news from the last week or two starting with their thoughts on the Humane AI pin. After that, they discuss iMessage coming to the Nothing Phone 2 (kind of) and a bunch of gadget news ranging from the new Steam Deck OLED to some EV announcements. We wrap up the podcast with answers to our Andrew-centric trivia questions. Speaking of which, Andrew is a dad now!

Note: The news of RCS coming to iMessage got announced after we finished recording so make sure to check in next week for a full deep dive and discussion on that.

Links:
Humane AI Pin
Google Pays Apple
iMessage on Nothing Phone 2
Dave2D Steam Deck OLED video
Lucid news
Xiaomi Car
Polestar 4 news
Nasa & Chill

Shop the merch:
https://shop.mkbhd.com

Instagram/Threads/Twitter:
Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:
https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

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Today we've got another special episode! Don't worry, there will be another regular episode on Friday. In today's episode David tries to find out what happened to Android ROMming? There was a time when flashing the latest nightly on your phone had an entire community built around it, but those days disappeared.. rather suddenly. What happened? We investigate.

Special thanks to:
Mishaal Rahman: https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman
Rich Miner: https://twitter.com/richminer
Stefanie Kondik: https://twitter.com/cyanogen
Lineage OS team: https://lineageos.org/

Links:
Rich Miner History of Android: https://bit.ly/richminerhistoryofandroid
ZTE article: https://bit.ly/ztetradeban

Shop the merch:
https://shop.mkbhd.com

Instagram/Threads/Twitter:
Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:
https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

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This week, David is taking a well-earned vacation so Marques and Andrew talk about a bunch of the latest news from the week! They start it off with Marques giving his final thoughts on the new MacBook Pro since he wasn't here last week before getting into some EV talk. After that, they talk about some new Pixel Watch 3 rumors and Spotify adding audiobooks to premium subscribers before wrapping it all up with some David-themed trivia. Hope you enjoy!

Links:
MacBook Pro review: https://bit.ly/mkbhdmacbookproreview
Decoder episode: https://bit.ly/decoderObama
David Studio Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/zjTxDrRNowg?si=VQNi7YA1qxrh7L_2
Breaking Records in Reverse: https://bit.ly/reverserecord
Ram 1500: https://bit.ly/ram1500EV
Spotify Audiobooks: https://bit.ly/4675NJk

Shop the merch:
https://shop.mkbhd.com

Instagram/Threads/Twitter:
Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM
Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:
https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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