The Vergecast

The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours. 

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episode 415: Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next


Nilay, Makena, Adi, and Casey discuss the important moments from Congress' antitrust hearing with Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai.

Stories discussed this week:

  • Antivirus: A weekly digest of the latest COVID-19 research
  • Kodak is branching out into pharmaceuticals with US investment
  • Twitter forced Donald Trump Jr. to delete tweet spreading COVID-19 misinformation
  • Moms in Tech Facebook group splintering over allegations of racism
  • Google will keep employees working remotely until July 2021
  • NASA’s life-hunting Mars rover is officially on its way to the Red Planet
  • Tech antitrust hearing: all the news, updates, and documents from Congress’ big moment
  • Everything you need to know from the tech antitrust hearing
  • What Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple have in common
  • Antitrust panel says the messages show Zuckerberg trying to buy out his competition
  • Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
  • Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says
  • The iconic Flip Video almost became Google’s first camera, emails show
  • Amazon bought Ring for market position, not technology, emails suggest
  • Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps
  • Facebook usage and revenue continue to grow as the pandemic rages on
  • Google parent company Alphabet sees its first revenue decline in history
  • Apple reports strong Mac and iPad sales in record-breaking Q3 earnings

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 July 31, 2020  1h9m