Exploring Internet Innovations and Controversies in Tech Management

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss the phones and laptops announced at Mobile World Congress, Meta's AR and VR hardware roadmap for the next few years, Tesla's "Master Plan", and more of this week's tech news.

Further reading:

• MWC 2023 was a preview of what future phones could (and should) look like
• HMD's latest Nokia phone is designed to be repaired in minutes 
• The Xiaomi 13 Pro is going global 
• Realme’s ridiculous 240W fast-charging phone is getting an international release 
• Motorola’s new Razr foldable is arriving this year
• Lenovo’s rollable laptop and smartphone are a compelling, unfinished pitch for the future 
• This is Meta’s AR / VR hardware roadmap for the next four years
• Elon Musk says Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th
• Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
• Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter 
• Elon Musk's 'lab leak' tweets could be an issue for Tesla's plans in China
• Tesla’s new ‘Master Plan’ is coming — let’s grade the first two
• Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, no new cars 
• Why won’t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI? 
• OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech 
• Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining
• Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC
• Sony announces 2023 TV lineup: better late than never

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