Podcast Episode Details

Big tech antittrust hearing preview and the Xbox Games Showcase breakdown

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Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk with Casey Newton and Makena Kelly about what to expect at the upcoming big tech antitrust hearings featuring Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai. Megan Farokhmanesh and Andrew Webster return to discuss the games announced at the Xbox Games Showcase this week.

Stories from this week:

• New COVID testing strategy could speed up backlogged labs
• ‘COVID parties’ are a pandemic urban legend that won’t go away
• The tech antitrust hearing is shaping up to be one for the ages
• Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future
• The big winner in Slack’s Microsoft fight could be Google
• Xbox Games Showcase: all the news from Microsoft’s July 2020 event
• Sony’s first vlogging camera almost nails it 
• Latest iOS 14 beta offers more evidence of a 5.4-inch iPhone
• Alexa will soon be able to launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands
• Samsung promises new mobile and TV products at virtual September event
• Blurry Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 leak hints at camera upgrades and gold model
• Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may try to be the Xbox Phone
• This is what Samsung’s bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live will look like in your ears
• The brain behind the Google Pixel camera is building a universal camera app for Adobe
• Windows 10X might not arrive until 2021

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Published on 5 years, 5 months ago