The politics and laws changing tech in the US

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week on 02:10 - The Verge's David Pierce tries out Neeva's Bias Buster, an attempt to get people out of their echo chambers and show them new information in its search engine. 20:25 - Senior reporter Adi Robertson talks about her story How America turned against the First Amendment 42:27 - Policy reporter Makena Kelly explains the CHIPS and Science Act, and how it could reshape the tech industry in America. Further reading: Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act Micron launches $15 billion Idaho project amid federal push for US tech manufacturing President Joe Biden speaks after groundbreaking for Intel’s $20 billion semiconductor plant Micron’s investing up to $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor’ facility to New York Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Semi Conductor Foundry Construction.
0:08.0	I'm your friend David Pierce.
0:09.2	I am currently in Union Station in DC just off an Amtrak home from Connecticut.
0:15.2	Big weekend with family time and ironically a lot of technology.
0:19.5	There was a floppy disk adapter involved.
0:21.4	I got to tell my mom all about the wonders of VLC media player and we didn't awful out
0:26.1	of password change.
0:27.5	Nobody found that place.
0:28.5	Anyway, we have a great show for you today.
0:31.3	Technically as you're listening to this, the US midterms were yesterday.
0:34.8	But we still want to dispense some time this week talking about politics.
0:38.1	So we're going to talk about how political news works on the internet and whether anyone
0:41.3	can build tools to make it work better.
0:43.9	We're also going to talk with Addy Robertson about the state of free speech in America
0:47.3	and on the internet.
0:48.3	Fair warning, it's pretty bleak.
0:50.1	And then McKenna Kelly is going to come on to talk to us about the Chips and Science
0:53.7	Act and which US cities might turn out to be the next big tech hubs.
0:58.3	All that is coming in just a second, but I got to get out of this train station and
1:02.3	then do a cab and get home.
1:04.4	Wish me luck.
1:05.4	This is the VergeCast.
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