Big tech antittrust hearing preview and the Xbox Games Showcase breakdown

Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk with Casey Newton and Makena Kelly about what to expect at the upcoming big tech antitrust hearings featuring Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai. Megan Farokhmanesh and Andrew Webster return to discuss the games announced at the Xbox Games Showcase this week.

Stories from this week:

New COVID testing strategy could speed up backlogged labs

‘COVID parties’ are a pandemic urban legend that won’t go away

The tech antitrust hearing is shaping up to be one for the ages

Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The big winner in Slack’s Microsoft fight could be Google

Xbox Games Showcase: all the news from Microsoft’s July 2020 event

Sony’s first vlogging camera almost nails it 

Latest iOS 14 beta offers more evidence of a 5.4-inch iPhone

Alexa will soon be able to launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands

Samsung promises new mobile and TV products at virtual September event

Blurry Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 leak hints at camera upgrades and gold model

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may try to be the Xbox Phone

This is what Samsung’s bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live will look like in your ears

The brain behind the Google Pixel camera is building a universal camera app for Adobe

Windows 10X might not arrive until 2021

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