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This week's Section 230 hearing / gadgets go to QVC / Motorola Razr 2020 review

10.30.2020 - By The VergePlay

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Nilay, Dieter, and Adi discuss the latest Section 230 congressional hearing featuring the CEOs of big tech. Ashley Carman stops by to talk about how gadget makers are turning to shopping channels to market their products.

Stories from this week:

San Francisco and Oakland phase out Verily COVID-19 testing sites

White House officials considered Elon Musk for coronavirus ad campaign

We need to rebuild America’s pandemic-fighting agencies

Streaming was part of the future — now it’s the only future 

Lime’s CEO on the future of scooters: ‘COVID has turned from a headwind into a tailwind’

Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet

The latest Section 230 hearing showed that Republicans want to make the internet smaller

The Right’s Regulator in Chief

Gadget makers’ biggest risk could be a huge reward

Influencers’ next frontier: their own live shopping channels

Everyone on Instagram will soon be able to go live for four hours

Facebook will test shopping from Reels later this year

Motorola Razr 2020 review: 5G folding flip phone feels fine

LG Wing review: learning to fly, failing to soar 

Verizon’s Yahoo zombie appears again as a purple phone

First iPhone 12 mini hands-on video shows just how tiny it is

Mophie’s new wirelessly charging battery pack clips onto the back of your phone

T-Mobile expands its faster midband 5G network, nearly doubling its coverage

Microsoft Surface Pro X (2020) review: ARM gets more muscle

Amazon Echo Dot (2020) review: have a ball

T-Mobile expands into live internet TV with new TVision streaming service

PS5 in photos: our first look at Sony’s next-gen console

PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: the next-gen consoles in photos

Astro’s Playroom is the perfect showcase for the PS5’s wild DualSense controller

Control is coming to the Nintendo Switch today, but you can only stream it from the cloud

Vizio and LG’s next-gen-ready OLED TVs are up to $500 off at Best Buy

Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US

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