This week's Section 230 hearing / gadgets go to QVC / Motorola Razr 2020 review

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Nilay, Dieter, and Adi discuss the latest Section 230 congressional hearing featuring the CEOs of big tech. Ashley Carman stops by to talk about how gadget makers are turning to shopping channels to market their products. Stories from this week: San Francisco and Oakland phase out Verily COVID-19 testing sites White House officials considered Elon Musk for coronavirus ad campaign We need to rebuild America’s pandemic-fighting agencies Streaming was part of the future — now it’s the only future Lime’s CEO on the future of scooters: ‘COVID has turned from a headwind into a tailwind’ Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet The latest Section 230 hearing showed that Republicans want to make the internet smaller The Right’s Regulator in Chief Gadget makers’ biggest risk could be a huge reward Influencers’ next frontier: their own live shopping channels Everyone on Instagram will soon be able to go live for four hours Facebook will test shopping from Reels later this year Motorola Razr 2020 review: 5G folding flip phone feels fine LG Wing review: learning to fly, failing to soar Verizon’s Yahoo zombie appears again as a purple phone First iPhone 12 mini hands-on video shows just how tiny it is Mophie’s new wirelessly charging battery pack clips onto the back of your phone T-Mobile expands its faster midband 5G network, nearly doubling its coverage Microsoft Surface Pro X (2020) review: ARM gets more muscle Amazon Echo Dot (2020) review: have a ball T-Mobile expands into live internet TV with new TVision streaming service PS5 in photos: our first look at Sony’s next-gen console PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: the next-gen consoles in photos Astro’s Playroom is the perfect showcase for the PS5’s wild DualSense controller Control is coming to the Nintendo Switch today, but you can only stream it from the cloud Vizio and LG’s next-gen-ready OLED TVs are up to $500 off at Best Buy Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US We're a finalist for a Discover Podcast Award! Vote here: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5978795/2020-Discover-Pods-Awards-Finalists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Verge cast,
0:01.5	Annie Robertson joins the show to talk about
0:03.3	the big congressional section 230 hearing,
0:05.5	which was a mess.
0:06.5	Then Ashley Carmen joins us talk
0:08.2	about the new season of her show in the making,
0:10.3	all about hardware makers,
0:12.0	hustlin' on KVC, so fun.
0:14.4	We do a little gadget lightning round,
0:15.8	talk about the razor review, the wing review,
0:17.6	bunch of other stuff coming up now on the Verge cast.
0:20.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield,
0:21.0	I'm the editor in Chief of Oiod.
0:22.6	And I'm Lauren Good,
0:23.6	I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:25.1	We're making a new show.
0:26.9	Have a nice future.
0:29.1	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:32.7	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling
0:36.0	the future can be.
0:37.0	We're gonna be bringing on the people
0:39.0	shaping this future.
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