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Mobile World Congress continues, the Tesla Investor Day event is coming up tomorrow, and there is more news we’ll be able to tell you about soon.
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Chevy’s 2024 Blazer EV spotted on the streets.
This Reddit post might be the first sighting of a Chevy Blazer EV in the wild without camouflage (replies in the thread say you can tell it’s not the cheaper Equinox based on the door handles).
The SUV is scheduled for release this summer, although if you’re out and about, you may see one even sooner than that.
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Elon Musk inserts himself into the Dilbert fiasco to proclaim that “The media is racist.”
The weekend tweet by the once-again world’s richest man reacted to the reaction to Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ YouTube rant about Black people — that video was deemed unacceptably racist enough that newspapers and his syndication partner cut ties with the cartoonist.
In response, Musk says that these days, The Media is actually “racist against whites & Asians.”
There’s another call for a Twitter ad boycott, while The Information reports Musk is seeking people to build a ChatGPT AI alternative that isn’t so “woke.”
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Unrolling Lenovo’s latest laptop and phone concepts at MWC 2023.
Just when we were getting used to foldable phones, tablets, and laptops, these concept designs suggest rollable screens are in the near future, ready to extend the view by a few more inches when you need them to, without taking up more space in your pocket or bag.
Jon Porter is at Mobile World Congress 2023 this week and can show you Lenovo’s rollable screen laptop plus its Motorola-branded rollable phone.
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This year’s Mobile World Congress event is in full swing, with news from Google (the new Keep widget seems useful), Nokia, and others.
You can stay tuned in to all of the updates with our event storystream.
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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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It has been one year since the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Reflections of War: A Year in Ukraine
[Associated Press]
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Remember Ozy Media, the company with splashy New York events, star guests, high-profile writers, and no readers?
Its 2021 shutdown followed this NYT article (called a “hit job” at the time by founder and CEO Carlos Watson) exposing the whole thing as a sham, reporting COO Samir Rao pretended to be a YouTube executive while on a call with potential investors.
Now Rao has pleaded guilty while Watson has been arrested, with prosecutors calling him a con man whose lies didn’t stop there:
Watson directed Ozy’s then-Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to send the bank a fake signed contract between Ozy and the cable network purporting to be for the second season. When the then-CFO refused, Rao, with Watson’s approval, sent the fake contract — which contained terms favorable to Ozy and a forged signature — to the bank, copying the then-CFO.
Later that day, the then-CFO emailed Watson and Rao to say that she was resigning effective immediately. She explained, “this . . . is illegal. This is fraud. This is forging someone’s signature with the intent of getting an advance from a publicly traded bank.” She continued, “To be crystal clear, what you see as a measured risk — I see as a felony.”
Ozy Media and Its Founder Carlos Watson Indicted in a Years-Long Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Scheme
[U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of New York]
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