Today on the flagship podcast of staring directly down the barrel of a camera, The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and Monica Chin start the show with an inside look at our M2 MacBook Pro and Mac Mini reviews. After that, the crew breaks down the case the US Department of Justice has filed against Google's ad business and of course we try to make sense of the latest Elon Musk shenanigans.Further reading:

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Apple Mac Mini (2023) review: Mac Studio junior 

Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: the core count grows

Google is being sued by the US government and eight states over online advertising 

Google plans to demo AI chatbot search as it panics about ChatGPT

More details come out on which departments saw layoffs at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon 

Tesla made more money in 2022 than ever before, but its future still looks rocky

Elon Musk is theoretically sad that Tesla investors lost money because of his tweets

Elon Musk thinks Twitter is real life

Elon Musk’s Twitter is caving to government censorship, just like he promised 

Elon Musk gets serious about 420 at securities fraud trial - The Verge  

Tesla’s new $3.6 billion Nevada investment includes a ‘high-volume’ Semi factory 

Tesla Cybertruck mass production won't start until 2024

Microsoft Q2 2023: Windows, devices, and Xbox down as cloud holds strong

Senators and Swifties take on Ticketmaster in Washington 

GoldenEye 007 is coming to Nintendo Switch and Xbox on January 27th

TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral

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