Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	This week on The Vergecast, Casey Newton, McKenna Kelly, and Addy Robertson join me to talk about
0:04.5	this week's gigantic tech antitrust hearing with the CEOs of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
0:10.8	It was a big deal. We're going to get into it now on The Vergecast.
0:13.7	I'm Gideon Litchfield. I'm the editor-in-chief of Oiod.
0:16.4	And I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:18.8	We're making a new show. Have a nice future.
0:22.8	I'm more have a nice future. Question mark.
0:26.4	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:30.6	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:34.2	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:38.6	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:42.8	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future wherever you get your podcasts.
0:48.4	Hi, I'm Leo Laporte, founder and host at TWIT. When it comes to covering all things tech,
0:53.6	there's a lot to report every week on our flagship podcast.
0:56.9	TWIT stands for This Week in Tech.
0:59.7	We assemble the top journalists in the field, experts in every aspect of technology,
1:05.2	even throwing a tech entrepreneur in the mix from time to time.
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1:16.2	Just search for This Week in Tech.
1:18.4	Hello and welcome to the first cast for flagship podcast of Government Overside.
1:27.2	I'm getting more and more boring with these, which is a problem, but I'm going to stick with it.
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