Podcast Episode Details

Questions about Facebook's oversight board, Quibi's popularity, and the rumored Pixel 4a

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Episode 405

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Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn welcome Dan Seifert, Casey Newton, and Julia Alexander to talk about gadget news, Facebook's oversight board, and updates in the streaming world.

Stories discussed this week:

• The doomsday bunker market is thriving amid the coronavirus pandemic
• Amazon asks Congress to pass a law against price gouging during national crisis
• Uber’s response to COVID-19: face masks, selfies, and fewer people in the car
• The lockdown live-streaming numbers are out, and they’re huge
• Elon Musk defies coronavirus order and asks to be arrested 
• Tesla has already started making cars again at its California factory
• Twitter introducing new labels for tweets with misleading COVID-19 information
• Google says that the majority of its employees will work from home until 2021
• The mastermind of Google’s Pixel camera quietly left the company in March
• Google Pixel 4a Performance Review tests the phone's ...
• Android 11's public beta to launch with June 3rd live stream …
• TCL wants to be the next big name in budget phones
• Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (2020) review: return to baseline
• Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays
• Alienware’s Area-51m, m15, and m17 laptops are getting new 10th Gen Intel chips and upgraded GPUs
• Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job
• Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues
• How Facebook is using AI to combat COVID-19 misinformation and detect ‘hateful memes’
• Published on 5 years, 7 months ago