Plus: France fines Google 250 million euros, or about $270 million. And the Biden administration awards Intel up to $8.5 billion to build new U.S. chip plants. Alex Ossola hosts. 



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Plus: Apple stock rallies the day after the company reported earnings. And shares of Coinbase fall. Alex Ossola hosts.

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TNB Tech Minute: EV Makers Get Tax-Credit Extension

EV maker Tesla announced this week that it was laying off much of the team responsible for the company’s Supercharger network, the largest and most successful EV charging network in the U.S. The move caught employees, and others in the industry, by surprise. WSJ reporter Ryan Felton tells host Alex Ossola what a Tesla pullback in charging could mean for the broader U.S. EV market. Plus, how did an iPhone survive a fall out of an airplane, but others crack when they get tipped off the kitchen counter? WSJ senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern took on an experiment to find out.

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Tesla’s Supercharger Layoffs Could Ripple Across the EV Industry

Plus: Universal Music and TikTok reach a new agreement. And Microsoft plans to invest over $2 billion in Malaysia. Alex Ossola hosts.

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TNB Tech Minute: Apple’s Quarterly Revenue Declines

Tasks like streaming movies or generating answers from artificial intelligence systems require a lot of computing power. So more, bigger data centers are cropping up in an effort to meet the demand. And that means more energy. Local energy companies are turning to natural gas and even coal to keep them going. WSJ energy reporter Jennifer Hiller tells host Alex Ossola what that means for the country’s energy transition. Plus, rebooting your device works for everything from computers to trains. WSJ personal tech reporter Cordilia James talks about why it became our go-to tech fix.

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To Power Huge Data Centers, Utilities Are Turning to Fossil Fuels

Plus: Chinese EV makers post higher sales. And Doordash posts record revenue. Alex Ossola hosts.

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TNB Tech Minute: Meta, Microsoft, X and Match Take on Apple in Court

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