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Vergecast: Two new Google antirust cases and an AirPods Max review

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In The Vergecast’ s last regular episode of 2020, The Verge ’s Dieter Bohn and Nilay Patel bring on senior reporter Adi Robertson and editor Chris Welch to explain the biggest stories in tech from this past week. In the first half of the show, Adi explains two (!) Further reading: FDA authorizes first COVID-19 vaccine in US.

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SXSW will attempt to hold its popular festival online in 2021. somehow

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Photo by Adi Robertson / The Verge. Organizers said that “SXSW is working with the City of Austin and public health authorities on plans for a physical event in 2021.” SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin was canceled earlier this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Former eBay security director arrested for harassing journalist with live cockroaches

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eBay admitted that Wenig made “inappropriate” comments about the newsletter, although “there was no evidence that he knew in advance about or authorized the actions that were later directed toward the blogger and her husband.” FBI Affidavit against eBay employees for harassment by Adi Robertson on Scribd.

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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 notification system won’t work in a vaccum

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The researchers picked Boston because of the quality of available data, according to senior author Yamir Moreno, a professor at the institute for biocomputation and physics of complex systems at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.

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How Apple is making the antitrust case against it stronger

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And if you make certain other email apps, such as Superhuman or Newton (no relation to the author), you can put your app in the App Store even though you don’t let people pay with an in-app purchase. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). But then it reversed its decision on The Federalist and undermined its own PR people in the process.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

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In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). Adi Robertson / The Verge ). The name derives from the camp classic breakdancing movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

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The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). (Channel 4 News). Governing. ? Evan Osnos / The New Yorker ).