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This week along The Verge's flagship podcast, The Vergecast : Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season formerly again.

Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson about the latest congressional audience with the big tech CEOs — this meter about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Number. Facebook CEO Nock Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Dorsey attended the earreach over picture before of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Adi explains what everyone had to say.

In the last half of the show, Ashley Carman stops by to blab ou about the newest episode of her video series In the Making , which is about how live shopping channels like QVC and HSN are instantly a unprecedented frontier for gadget companies marketing and selling their products.

And naturally, The Vergecast had to gibe in some smartphone talk. The brandish of weird phone design has come back, and it does non disappoint. Reviews for the LG Wing and the new Motorola Razr are out, and for some reason, there is a Hayseed phone.

This whole week of news is captured along this episode of The Vergecast , so listen here or in your favourite podcast role player to hear it all.

Stories from this calendar week:

  • San Francisco and Oakland phase out Verily COVID-19 testing sites
  • White House officials considered Elon Musk for coronavirus ad campaign
  • We need to rebuild America's pandemic-fighting agencies
  • Cyclosis was part of the future — instantly it's the only future
  • Lime tree's CEO on the future of scooters: 'COVID has turned from a headwind into a tailwind'
  • Scratch Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet
  • The in style Section 230 hearing showed that Republicans want to make the internet smaller
  • The Decent's Regulator in Chief
  • Gadget makers' biggest risk could be a huge reward
  • Influencers' next frontier: their own live shopping channels
  • Everyone happening Instagram will shortly be able to die off live for four hours
  • Facebook will test shopping from Reels ulterior this year
  • Motorola Razr 2020 review: 5G folding pass phone feels fine
  • LG Wing review: learning to fly, failing to soar up
  • Verizon's Yahoo zombie appears once again as a purple phone
  • Beginning iPhone 12 mini active telecasting shows conscionable how tiny information technology is
  • Mophie's new wirelessly charging battery camp clips onto the back of your telephone set
  • T-Mobile expands its faster midband 5G net, nearly double its reportage
  • Microsoft Surface Pro X (2020) review: ARM gets more muscle
  • Amazon Resound Dot (2020) review: have a ball
  • T-Mobile expands into live internet TV with new TVision streaming service
  • PS5 in photos: our first look at Sony's next-gen soothe
  • PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: the next-gen consoles in photos
  • Astro's Playroom is the utter showcase for the PS5's wild DualSense controller
  • Control is coming to the Nintendo Switch over nowadays, but you prat only stream it from the cloud
  • Vizio and LG's next-gen-ready OLED TVs are up to $500 off at Best Purchase
  • Meet the 24-year-old who's tracking every broken McDonald's ice-cream machine in the US

Vergecast: this week's Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/30/21541796/section-230-hearing-gadgets-qvc-razr-2020-review-vergecast-podcast-428