Foxxconn’s empty innovation centers and a blackhole photo revealed

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

• Ikea and Sonos made the ultimate speaker lamp

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

• Turns out Amazon buying Eero wasn’t the startup success story we thought

• New Zealand privacy commissioner says Facebook is run by ‘morally bankrupt’ liars

• T-Mobile relaunches Layer3 TV service as TVision Home

• Netflix confirms it killed AirPlay support, won’t let you beam shows to …

• YouTube TV raises monthly price to $50, but adds Discovery channels …

• 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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