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    Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia Digital CEO Conal Byrne

    Amid layoffs and a looming recession, folks are concerned about the audio industry. iHeart’s podcast head Conal Byrne is not worried. Here’s why.

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    This week on The Vergecast we talked about Section 230.

    On the latest episode (you can find the audio feeds here) TC, Nilay, and Alex broke down this week’s Supreme Court hearings that could significantly impact the internet.

    After a break and a lineup change, we also dig into the new fraud charges filed against Sam Bankman-Fried, Spotify’s AI DJ (I don’t trust it), the Microsoft vs. Sony battle over Activision, and Tesla’s new California engineering HQ.

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    Nilay Patel
    I AM BUYING THE TIKTOK CAR IMMEDIATELY

    It was such a short leap from “interior camera to monitor driver attention” to “interior camera to make TikToks while the car drives itself.”

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    The integrated floppy storage 😍
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    There’s no replacement for displacement.

    All that talk about computational photography but at the rate we’re going the iPhone 39 Pro Ultra will have like seven full-frame sensors.

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    As requested: an RSS feed of all Verge quickposts.

    By popular request, we now have a new quickpost RSS feed that just contains our Storystream feed quickposts. And here’s the full list of all of our RSS feeds, in case you’re that kind of nerd. (Our kind of nerd. We love you.)

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    What can’t the Steam Deck do?
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    The new head of YouTube was on Decoder a while back.

    Neal Mohan was the chief product officer back then — we’ll have to have him back now that he’s in charge as SVP.

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    Nilay Patel
    Okay, sometimes the vaporware cars might be preferable to reality.

    Only 92 miles of range! Interior surfaces made of cork that easily stains! At least the pretend EVs are perfect in our minds.

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    Nilay Patel
    TSMC founder Morris Chang told Nancy Pelosi the United States couldn’t just buy its way into the chip supply chain.

    Politico reports on a tense meal during Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan last year — the only on-the-record source in the story is Pelosi herself!

    (For more on the complex global politics of TSMC and the CHIPS Act, check out this episode of Decoder with author Chris Miller.)

    With Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, looking on, the billionaire entrepreneur pressed Pelosi with sobering questions about the CHIPS law — and whether the policy represented a genuine commitment to supporting advanced industry or an impulsive attempt by the United States to seize a piece of a lucrative global market.

    Chang said he was pleased that his company could benefit from the subsidies; TSMC already had a major development project underway in Arizona. But did the United States really think it could buy itself a powerhouse chipmaking industry, just like that?