Apple's Intel acquisition, the Galaxy Fold starts its comeback, and a $5 billion fine for Facebook

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Stories discussed this week: Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem businessSamsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in SeptemberT-Mobile won’t sell the Galaxy Fold when it is rereleasedSony’s latest RX100 camera finally gets a mic jackThe first speakers from Ikea and Sonos are inexpensive and sound greatFTC hits Facebook with $5 billion fine and new privacy checksFacebook will have to monitor its own privacy rules — and that’s likely not enoughFTC sues Cambridge Analytica and restricts former CEO’s business activityFacebook confirms new FTC antitrust investigation after posting strong earningsWhy wasn't the FTC harder on Facebook?Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized usersJustice Department announces broad antitrust review of Big TechAmazon ‘destroyed the retail industry across the US’ says Treasury Secretary MnuchinTrump keeps losing tech policy fightsDish reportedly reaches deal with T-Mobile and Sprint to become the new fourth major US carrierOrigin PC’s Big O gaming PC has a built-in PS4 Pro, Xbox One X, and Nintendo SwitchAnker CEO Steven Yang is all in on USB-CApple iPhone 11 rumors: Lightning port, new Taptic Engine, upgraded …This year's iPhone should be the last with LightningYou can subscribe to Land of the Giants: The Rise of Amazon here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the VRTCHAS we talk about Apple buying Intel's Modem business, the Galaxy
0:03.3	Fold returns, there's a new RX100 and then we get deep into the weeds of what is going
0:07.8	on with the FTC and Facebook, with Russell Brandham and McKenna Kelly.
0:11.8	That's the VRTCHAS coming up now.
0:13.6	Today's parents are busier than ever.
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0:20.3	But it can be an awful lot to juggle.
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0:51.6	Support for this show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:55.4	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:58.1	As state legislatures consider more than 500 anti-transpills, the latest episode of Into
1:02.7	the Mix asks, how best to support and protect transgender youth.
1:06.8	Like Olioski, a young man who, despite growing up in a loving and supportive home, felt
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