The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop era, and more.

Further reading:

• Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk
• Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
• Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget 
• Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads
• What to expect at Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ event
• The Mercedes G-Wagen, the ultimate off-road status symbol, goes electric 
• The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now 
• Kuo: Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments due to low demand
• Tesla’s in its flop era
• Tesla lays off ‘more than 10 percent’ of its workforce, loses top executives
• Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal 
• Tesla reveals a new Model 3 Performance with more horsepower and faster acceleration
• A cheaper Tesla is back on the menu
• Sonos announces redesigned app that puts everything on your homescreen
• Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus and Elite processors 
• Apple might be the streaming home of soccer’s next big tournament 

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Today on the flagship podcast of forced app divestiture: 

03:07  - The Verge’s David Pierce and Lauren Fiener discuss the latest tech policy bills floating through Congress, including a privacy bill, a generative AI bill, and the TikTok divest-or-ban bill.

• TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again
• TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
• Lawmakers unveil new bipartisan digital privacy bill after years of impasse 
• A real privacy law? House lawmakers are optimistic this time 
• New bill would create public datasets to train AI and incentivize innovation.

34:17 - David talks with Nikola Todorovic and Tye Sheridan about their company Wonder Dynamics, which is creating AI-powered production tools for filmmakers. 

1:09:16 - David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about messaging apps.

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss third-party iPhone app stores, game emulators, Google Android and hardware team restructuring, the latest TikTok news, and more.

Further reading:

• Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
• The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
• A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store
• The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived... and been pulled
• Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
• Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI
• Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
• AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
• Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child
• Big Papa Joe, world's biggest TouchWiz Fan - The Vergecast (clip)
• Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child  
• Sony might have perfected Mini LED TVs with its new 2024 lineup
• Broadcast TV still exists, and now it’s sort of getting a built-in DVR
• TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram
• TikTok gives users more in-app ways to buy event tickets.
• TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
• Report: ByteDance still has access to US users’ TikTok data despite Project Texas
• The president could delay a TikTok ban an extra six months under a reported House proposal.
• TikTok to restrict users who repeatedly post problematic topics from ‘For You’ feed
• Twitch’s new TikTok-style Discovery feed is rolling out to everyone soon
• Spotify is developing a remix feature to rival sped-up TikTok tunes
• Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to ‘inject a sense of crisis’
• Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel

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Today on the flagship podcast of undersea cable management: 

04:10 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Josh Dzieza discuss the industry of laying and maintaining undersea cables that connect us to the internet. 

• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

43:43 - Tom Warren and Joanna Nelius join the show to discuss the future of Arm chips on PCs and whether or not we’re about to get a huge jump in performance on most laptops. 

• Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
• Microsoft to hold a special Windows and Surface AI event in May
• Microsoft’s first AI PCs are the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for businesses
• Qualcomm claims its Snapdragon X Elite processor will beat Apple, Intel, and AMD
• Qualcomm says most Windows games should ‘just work’ on its unannounced Arm laptops

1:11:18 - Alex Cranz answers questions from the Vergecast Hotline about e-readers and the latest Kobo devices. 

• Kobo announces its first color e-readers
• The best ebook reader to buy right now

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Piece, and Alex Cranz discuss David's review of the Humane AI Pin, Taylor Swift's music back on TikTok, a new party speaker, and much more.

Further reading:

• Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet
• Here’s What Reviewers Are Saying About the Humane Pin
• We now have a better look at what’s inside the Humane AI pin
• OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 
• Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok
• Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts
• Kobo announces its first color e-readers
• Sony’s new headphones and speakers are all about skull-rattling bass
• Official: here’s the DJI Avata 2, possibly one of the best sequels in years
• Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace
• Meta says it’s fixing ‘HD’ photo sharing in Facebook Messenger 
• Marissa Mayer’s eternal Sunshine
• The MPA has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again

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The Verge’s David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz answer questions from The Vergecast Hotline all about the TikTok ban debate and the US v Apple case. 

Further reading: 

• TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
• US v. Apple: everything you need to know
• The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Macbook Air M3 review, Jon Stewart's take on AI, and a whole lot more of this week's tech news.

Further reading:

• Apple MacBook Air M3 review: small upgrades 
• It’s time for a hard reset on notifications
• Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 
• Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot
• Samsung says Bixby’s still not dead
• The world needs more gadgets like LG’s briefcase TV 
• Jon Stewart on AI, Lina Khan, and the other things Apple didn’t want him to say
•  A first look at Europe’s alternative iPhone app stores
• Will the Apple antitrust case lawsuit affect your phone’s security?
• How Meta’s global head of safety approaches online age verification
• Is TikTok still TikTok without the algorithm?’
• The US House banned staffers from using Microsoft Copilot
• FCC will vote on restoring net neutrality rules
• X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
• Spotify’s price is reportedly going up again 
• AI George Carlin case settled as performers demand better protection 
• OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work
• Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google 

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Today on the flagship podcast of alternate keyboard layouts: 

03:36 - The Verge’s David Pierce talks to Jonas Hietala about his ultra-custom keyboard he built from the ground up to fit his specific needs. 

• Jonas Hietala: The T-34 keyboard layout

30:40 - The Verge’s Tom Warren explains the next phase of Microsoft with a new leader on the Windows and Surface team. 

• Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief
• Microsoft’s first AI PCs are the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for businesses
• Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information

57:32 - David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about tricks for Netflix recommendations. 

• How Planet Earth — and the Netflix homepage — get made

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Today we're sharing an episode of a new podcast called Power User, which explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us, hosted by tech journalist Taylor Lorenz.

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Today on the flagship podcast of canceled-out cricket sounds: 

03:29 - David, Andru, and Will react to prototype headphones that use AI to take noise cancellation to a whole new level. 

• Hear how the best ANC headphones handle real world and lab tests 
• We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities 
• The University of Washington’s Semantic Hearing project
• UW’s Mobile Intelligence Lab

31:30 - Michael Fisher, aka Mr. Mobile, joins the show to discuss mobile phones with physical keyboards and his latest project, “Clicks,” an iPhone case featuring an integrated keyboard.

• Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators
• BlackBerry kills Ryan Seacrest's iPhone keyboard

56:30 - Andru Marino answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about the best microphone for recording your parents. 

• How to get great audio for podcast interviews

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The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Lauren Feiner and Nilay Patel discuss the breaking news about the the US Department of Justice accusing Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in an expansive new antitrust lawsuit.

Further reading:

• US v. Apple: everything you need to know 
• US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
• The US Department of Justice is suing Apple — read the full lawsuit here 
• The lock-in problem at the heart of the DOJ’s case against Apple 
•  Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app
• What else can Humane’s AI pin do? 
• These toddler games for iPad are actually good — and that's all too rare
• YouTube TV’s multiview comes to iPhones and iPads in time for March Madness

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