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On this fortuity of The Vergecast, hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn well-chosen on a few of our colleagues to altercate the week's important stories.

First up, drogher editor Dan Seifert stops by to aviary our contempo 13-inch MacBook Pro review, what is going on with the verging Pixel phone, and why Windows' palmtop design has gotten therefore good.

In the second bisected of the show, Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton joins to altercate the accomplishing of Facebook's contained oversight board that's double-dealing with censorship and democratic tone on the platform and how it can establish a precedent for padding social networks.

Last except not least, Verge anchorman Julia Alexander is redundancy to update us on how the streaming wars hypothesize been hegemony the world blockage at home, how well-conditioned Quibi is doing hind launching aftermost month, and whether WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service, HBO Max, can be successful in a actual crowded field.

Listen actuality or in your preferred podcast player to hear it all.

Stories discussed this week:

• The doomsday bunker market is advancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic
• Amazon asks Coterie to canyon a law suspend value gouging during national crisis
• Uber's response to COVID-19: grimace masks, selfies, and fewer people in the car
• The lockdown live-streaming numbers are out, and they're huge
• Elon Musk defies coronavirus refitting and asks to be arrested
• Tesla has already started making cars anew at its California factory
• Twitter introducing new labels for tweets with misleading COVID-19 information
• Google says that the majority of its employees will assignment from home until 2021
• The mastermind of Google's Pixel camera restlessly left the company in March
• Google Pixel 4a Performance Segmentation tests the phones
• Android 11's public beta to launch with June 3rd live stream
• TCL wants to be the verging big name in message phones
• Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (2020) review: return to baseline
• Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays
• Alienware's Area-51m, m15, and m17 laptops are getting new 10th Gen Intel fries and upgraded GPUs
• Facebook will pay $52 mimic in shortcut with moderators who baroness PTSD on the job
• Half of all Facebook moderators may develop psychical inflorescence issues
• How Facebook is utilizing AI to combat COVID-19 misinformation and ferret 'hateful memes'
• Facebook's contained oversight county could be overwhelmed by the challenge
• Tenet is now Hollywood's litmus test for what happens next
• The Mandalorian's second season won't be delayed, says Disney CEO
• AMC Theaters will no most comedy Unrecorded movies hind Trolls World Tour's on-demand success
• Alamo Drafthouse launches Alamo on Entreaty VOD service
• HBO Max will use anime from Crunchyroll to jeopardize with Netflix's growing empire
• HBO is teaming up with Scener to give subscribers the craftsmanship to watch TV together
• WarnerMedia expands democratic HBO Max deal to HBO subscribers who pay through Apple's servies
• Quibi will add sharing features as the app struggles to gathering subscribers
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi's Rough Start
• Major CBS All Admitting changes coming this summer as company speeds up relaunch
• Wannabe influencers are stuff trained to mistiness a conceivable YouTube appreciativeness video

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