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Bytes: Week in Review — the X ban, Apple’s AI and airplane Wi-Fi gets upgraded

Marketplace All-in-One

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Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If you’re an Apple fan, you probably didn’t miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence will be integrated into its new hardware. We’ll be digging into that on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, airlines are upgrading their Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight. But first, Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk’s social media platform in Brazil. X has been banned in the country since last weekend, and now Starlink has agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter-million internet subscribers in the country. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Wall Street Journal senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern or her take on this week’s tech news.

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Airplane Wi-Fi is ready for takeoff.

0:05.0

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:08.0

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. If you're an apple fan you probably didn't miss the speculation surrounding the upcoming iPhone 16 launch

0:26.4

event next week. Many expect the tech giant to reveal more about how its artificial intelligence

0:32.4

will be integrated into its new hardware.

0:35.0

We'll be digging into that on this week's TechBites Week in Review.

0:39.0

Plus, Airlines are upgrading their in-flight Wi-Fi, so you might be able to take a Zoom meeting on your six-hour flight.

0:47.0

But first, Elon Musk's satellite internet provider has agreed to block Elon Musk's social media platform in Brazil.

0:55.0

Of course, X has been banned in the country since last weekend,

0:59.0

and now Starlink has finally agreed to enforce that ban for its roughly quarter million internet

1:05.0

subscribers in the country.

1:06.9

For more we checked in with Wall Street Journal Senior Personal Technology columnist Joanna Stern

1:12.0

to get her insight.

1:13.0

This isn't the first country, X is banned in.

1:15.0

There's a list of others, but in this case, the government just believes that this platform

1:21.0

is toxic and does the amount of content that isn't being censored or free

1:28.9

speech is just harmful so this is what the government has decided to do there. But yes, then it brought in lots of the other types of,

1:37.0

if we want to say, companies and Elon Musk's orbit, Starlink, which is now at first they said they were not going to block X in the country and now they are

1:48.1

but we also then are now hearing too that they're gonna that SpaceX is going to pull their

1:52.3

employees from the country.

1:53.6

So this has really turned into basically Elon Musk's orbit

1:56.4

versus the country in Brazil.

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