Foxxconn's empty innovation centers and a blackhole photo revealed


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Apr 11 2019 87 mins   12

Loren Grush discusses the first image of a black hole, Nilay discusses Foxconn's broken dreams, Dieter discusses gadgets, and Paul discusses Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser. Long show but stick with us, there's a lot to know here.

Stories discussed this week:

- See the first image ever taken of a supermassive black hole

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- Foxconn’s ‘innovation centers’ are a bunch of empty buildings in Wisconsin

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- T-Mobile relaunches Layer3 TV service as TVision Home

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- Google patches ads into Android TV home screens without warning …

- LG G8 ThinQ review: many gimmicks, not enough progress

- Samsung's Galaxy A80 is an automated notchless slider with a ...

- Hidden Google Play info suggests 'midyear' release for Pixel 3 devices ...

- Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser is now officially available to test …

- Microsoft reveals all the Google things it removed in its Chromium …

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