Anyone want to buy TikTok?

1 week ago

It was going to happen, and past it wasn’t going to happen, and past it happened. The United States Congress passed a bill that would either prohibition TikTok aliases unit it to beryllium sold, and President Joe Biden signed it.

So... what now? TikTok could sue, and win, and spell backmost to normal. TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, could conscionable determine to unopen it down and move on. Or it could waste TikTok US. Those are really nan only 3 outcomes, and we person a twelvemonth aliases little to fig retired which it’s going to be.

On this section of The Vergecast, we talk each nan imaginable outcomes for TikTok. Then we effort to fig retired which companies mightiness bargain nan level — and which decidedly won’t, contempt desperately wanting to. There’s nary easy, evident choice, but location are a fewer that look for illustration they mightiness really work.

After that, we talk astir a large week successful gadgets. We person the Rabbit R1 successful hand, truthful we talk astir really it useful and whether this is an betterment connected nan Humane AI Pin. We talk Apple’s May 7th iPad event, a caller AI update to Meta’s smart glasses, nan state of nan Vision Pro, and more.

Then we do a lightning round, aft first taking a look astatine Tesla’s net and wondering what’s going to hap erstwhile nan world starts to spot — and worth — it for illustration a car company. We talk Sonos apps, Apple sports, and Qualcomm chips, and we’re out.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch nan TikTok ban:

And connected this week’s gadget news:

And connected Tesla:

And successful nan lightning round:

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