TikTok on the Clock, Tesla’s Flop Era and How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer

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On Wednesday, President Biden signed a invoice into regulation that will drive the sale of TikTok or ban the app outright. We clarify how this got here collectively, when just some weeks in the past it appeared unlikely to occur, and what authorized challenges the regulation will face subsequent. Then we verify on Tesla’s very unhealthy 12 months and what’s subsequent for the corporate after this week’s terrible quarterly earnings report. Finally, to boldly help tech the place tech has by no means been supported earlier than: Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab attempt to repair a chip malfunction from 15 billion miles away.

Guests:

• Andrew Hawkins, Transportation Editor at The Verge

• Todd Barber, Propulsion Engineer at Jet Propulsion Lab

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Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. The present is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and authentic music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special because of Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.