David Pierce

After you sign up for our This Week in Elon newsletter, watch David Pierce run through some of the possibilities for the social network if the two sides complete their deal.

Apple made some nice changes to the entry-level iPad — especially the camera, which is finally in the right place! — but left it with some old specs and a high price. The new M2 Pro should be super fast, but... to what end? And why are there so many Apple Pencil models to think about?

Our friend Marques Brownlee ran a “which pocket do you carry your phone in” poll, and almost 600,000 later, “front right” is winning in a shocking landslide. Obviously, not everyone has such big pockets, but for those that do... apparently the official Phone Pocket is the front right. (I’m a front-lefter, personally.) Who knew!

ESPN and the NHL really hope so. They’re betting on TikTok to get younger fans engaged, primarily by helping them get to know players better. That can only mean one thing: more adorable hockey family TikToks incoming.

This is a really good read on a new study of how disinformation spreads on Wikipedia — which is maybe the internet’s single most important source of information? — and the ways the platform is trying to stop it. It’s all so much more subtle than I realized.

So much tech news this week! We dug into all of it, from Meta Connect to our Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch reviews to the never-ending slew of Microsoft announcements. And we all have strong feelings about the whole idea of “enterprise VR.”