What happened to Apple’s car?

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🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Apple has abandoned its effort to make an autonomous electric vehicle. We’ll get into why the company’s venture flopped and what it says about the supply chain for electric vehicle parts. Then, we’ll explain how a Texas federal judge’s ruling is upending race-based aid for businesses. And, guest host Sabri Ben-Achour tells us how he created a flower. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “How Apple Sank About $1 Billion a Year Into a Car It Never Built” from Bloomberg

- “Federal judge in Texas rules that minority-business aid must be offered to all races” from The Houston Chronicle

- “Federal judge in Texas says agency created to help minority-owned businesses must provide assistance to all races” from CNN Politics

- “Retailers take on Amazon Prime with new subscription services” from Marketplace

- “The IRS pilots its free tax-filing program” from Marketplace

- “Oscar Watch Parties” from LAist

- “Skijoring brings cowboys and skiers to Western towns, but warm weather leaves the sport in flux” from Marketplace

- “Bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. gains momentum in Congress” from NBC News

We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today
0:11.1	makes sense. It is Friday, March the 8th. Kai is out today but joining me is the
0:17.5	plant king himself, Sabree Vanashore.
0:21.1	Hi Kimberly,, everybody.
0:23.2	It's good to be back.
0:24.0	Thanks for joining us on the podcast
0:25.8	and on the YouTube live stream.
0:28.5	It is Friday, which means it is time for our weekly happy hour episode.
0:33.0	Right and for those listening on the podcast and not looking at the YouTube
0:37.1	live stream I say this because every time Sabrie comes on the show you can see
0:41.7	that he has an entire wall of plants behind him and
0:45.5	those who get to hang out with Sabry and the New York Bureau know that he has
0:49.6	quite the plant family there and he has attempted to help me rescue my own door plants on
0:55.6	more than one occasion as well. So I was asking you before the show if you've moved
1:00.3	your plants outside yet, you haven't't. No it's too cold to move
1:04.4	them outside they are still inside this is just some of them I don't know if you can
1:09.2	see it's kind of you can't really see yeah that's that's that's some of them.
1:12.4	Yeah they're here with me kind of you can't really see them, but that's some of them.
1:13.8	Yeah, they're here with me and the grow lights.
1:17.2	I was mentioning earlier, I've had to start subsidizing
1:19.7	my roommate's electricity bills during the winter because the lights have taken up so much electricity.
1:27.2	So they're here for now. So how do you know how many plants you have?
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