SpaceX accused of illegally firing workers for criticizing the boss, Twitch re-revises its guidelines banning the implication of nudity, and score one for the humans, a 13-year old just became the first person to beat NES Tetris. It's Thursday, Jan 4th and this is Engadget News.
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Jan 16
Taiwan bringing more semiconductor production to the US, Bluesky's 'Live Now' badge is available to everyone, and Netflix's expanded Sony deal
-The US Department of Commerce announced that Taiwanese businesses will make an upfront investment of at least $250 billion into their US production capacity. -Live Now is included as part of Bluesky's latest update, alongside "cashtags," a separate type of hashtag for collecting ... Show More
7m 43s
Aug 2025
Elon Musk Sues Apple, US Takes Intel Stake
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses the latest on Intel after President Donald Trump announced a 10% stake in the chipmaker. Plus, Elon Musk announces he's suing Apple and OpenAI, accusing the companies of thwarting competition. And the world of esports is set to get bigger with ... Show More
42m 36s
Jan 2025
Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok shutdown, Biden’s AI policies and Zuckerberg asks Trump for a favor
On this week’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes,” we’ll dive into President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence plus a request Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made to President-elect Donald Trump. But first, tech news site The Information reported that TikTok plans to complete ... Show More
11m 25s
Mar 2025
Trump's confusing crusade against Big Tech
Starlink is in the White House, Siri is still bad, Pebble is back, up is down, everything is chaos. In this episode, Nilay and David start the show by running through some big gadget news, from a Siri-related shakeup at Apple to the new Google Pixel 9A. After that, The Verge's La ... Show More
1h 50m
Oct 2024
Shocker: The Pixel 9a Has Leaked
This week, Marques, Andrew, and David sit down to discuss everything from the WordPress drama to the new Linus Tech Tips screwdriver. First, David fills everyone in on what's been happening with WordPress before talking about Juno for YouTube (a video player app for the Apple Vis ... Show More
1h 16m
Feb 2025
Elon Musk's computer coup
Nilay, David, and Richard Lawler take on a big week in confusing news stories. First, they talk through the latest from Elon Musk's DOGE, which is running rampant through government computer systems with little pushback. Then they explain the latest on the US government's tariff ... Show More
1h 36m
Jul 2023
TWiT 934: The Scrollbar is Jiggling - Twitter self-DDoS, Flipper, Ethernet 50 years old, SCOTUS cyberstalking
Twitter self-DDoS, Flipper, Ethernet 50 years old, SCOTUS cyberstalking Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits Apple is a $3 trillion company — again. The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark. Twitch Star x ... Show More
3h 8m