Intro

The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce talk through the weird and winding history of Apple's "secret" car project now that it's officially dead. And later, senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner makes her Vergecast debut to catch us up on the arguments made this week in the Supreme Court about online speech and the First Amendment.

Further reading:

• Apple’s electric car project is dead
• RIP to the Apple Car, we hardly knew ye
• Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns
• Supreme Court hears arguments on the future of online speech: all the news
• The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech
• Why Uber and Etsy came up so much in the Supreme Court’s social media arguments
• Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are 'completely unacceptable'
• TikTok is removing even more songs as music rights battle drags on
• The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t 
• Ford offers EV owners free Tesla Supercharger adapters until July
• Attention English majors: now you can add handwritten notes to Google Docs

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.

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