The Future of TikTok and Media Critiques

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop era, and more.

Further reading:

• Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk
• Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
• Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget 
• Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads
• What to expect at Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ event
• The Mercedes G-Wagen, the ultimate off-road status symbol, goes electric 
• The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now 
• Kuo: Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments due to low demand
• Tesla’s in its flop era
• Tesla lays off ‘more than 10 percent’ of its workforce, loses top executives
• Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal 
• Tesla reveals a new Model 3 Performance with more horsepower and faster acceleration
• A cheaper Tesla is back on the menu
• Sonos announces redesigned app that puts everything on your homescreen
• Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus and Elite processors 
• Apple might be the streaming home of soccer’s next big tournament 

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