Big tech at Capitol Hill, Elon Musk's brain machine interface, and Macbook 2019 reviews

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Nilay Patel invites a cavalry of experts from The Verge (Makena Kelly, Adi Robertson, Liz Lopatto, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller) to discuss the Big Tech hearings that took over Capitol Hill, Elon Musk's Neuralink brain machine interface, and the new Macbook reviews. Stories this week: Facebook reportedly reaches $5 billion settlement with the Federal …Facebook tells Congress how it thinks Libra should be regulatedHouse Democrats are considering a bill to ban Facebook from the …Senators aren’t sold on Facebook’s Libra projectEU opens Amazon antitrust investigationThe unpredictable legal implications of Trump’s Twitter-blocking defeatElon Musk unveils Neuralink's plans for brain-reading 'threads'Boston Dynamics' robots are preparing to leave the lab — is the world ready? Apple is silently updating Macs again to remove insecure ... Apple MacBook Air (2019) review: the new normalApple MacBook Pro 13 2019 Two USB ports review: considered ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This weekend on Verge's House, we talk about the big tech hearings that took over Capitol Hill,
0:03.4	Elon Musk, Nearlink, Braimachine, Interface, and we end on MacBook reviews.
0:07.4	That's Verge's House, coming up.
0:09.6	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:13.3	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa,
0:18.4	earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.
0:23.2	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's Final Act, now on YouTube.
0:30.1	Hello, and welcome to the Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of the Verge politics network.
0:40.3	It's a lot of politics, I'm just going to be very honest with everyone. A lot of stuff happened
0:44.0	in Washington DC this week. Not all of it was smart, but we're going to talk about it all.
0:48.6	Anyway, I'm Neely, I'm your friend, Deeders here.
0:51.2	Hi, how's it going?
0:53.0	We're kind of structuring the show a little bit differently today because we have so much going on.
0:58.6	First, Addy Robertson, McKenna Kelly, you're going to join us.
1:01.2	They're here. Hello.
1:02.3	Hi.
1:04.5	We are going to talk about all of the hearings.
1:07.0	There are, I think, four total hearings on Capitol Hill this week with all the big players.
1:11.1	There's one about Libra.
1:12.3	There is one where, at a basically Ted Cruz, the outfit Google, I don't know how else to describe that hearing.
1:18.1	Yes, many people got a Google.
1:20.0	And then there was another hearing about antitrust issues with Big Tech companies that
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