Big tech antittrust hearing preview and the Xbox Games Showcase breakdown

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk with Casey Newton and Makena Kelly about what to expect at the upcoming big tech antitrust hearings featuring Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai. Megan Farokhmanesh and Andrew Webster return to discuss the games announced at the Xbox Games Showcase this week. Stories from this week: New COVID testing strategy could speed up backlogged labs ‘COVID parties’ are a pandemic urban legend that won’t go away The tech antitrust hearing is shaping up to be one for the ages Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future The big winner in Slack’s Microsoft fight could be Google Xbox Games Showcase: all the news from Microsoft’s July 2020 event Sony’s first vlogging camera almost nails it Latest iOS 14 beta offers more evidence of a 5.4-inch iPhone Alexa will soon be able to launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands Samsung promises new mobile and TV products at virtual September event Blurry Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 leak hints at camera upgrades and gold model Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may try to be the Xbox Phone This is what Samsung’s bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live will look like in your ears The brain behind the Google Pixel camera is building a universal camera app for Adobe Windows 10X might not arrive until 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Neil.
0:01.1	I just a quick note before the show begins.
0:03.2	We recorded on Thursday, like we usually do,
0:05.6	anticipating the antitrust hearing on Monday
0:07.8	would go forth as scheduled.
0:09.6	But late last night, we got word
0:11.5	that because the legendary Congressman John Lewis
0:13.6	would be lying in state in the capital on Monday,
0:16.5	the hearing might be delayed a week or so.
0:19.7	So members of Congress can go pay their respects,
0:22.0	which is totally understandable.
0:24.3	So just a big piece of information about the hearing
0:27.5	wanted you to have it on with the show.
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