Tech News Weekly 157

Biden and big tech, the insect impact effect on autonomous vehicles.

• Emily Birnbaum from Protocol highlights the questions that were and were not answered during the Section 230 Senate hearing in Washington DC.
• Alex Kantrowitz from the Big Technology podcast illustrates how the Biden campaign feels about Section 230 and what that would mean if he were elected President.
• Sam Abuelsamid from Wheel Bearings podcast addresses the challenges posed by insects on fully autonomous vehicles.
• ByteDance shifts focus from TikTok toward education with its first hardware play, the Dali smart lamp for children.
• Apple shows more signs that it might be getting into the search engine game.

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Links

• The Tech CEOs Finally Discussed Section 230 Policy. Briefly.
• The Questions the CEOs Declined to Answer
• Reddit Worries it’s Going to be Crushed in the Fight Against Big Tech
• What a President Biden Would Do to Big Tech
• Facebook and Twitter's Inconsistencies Are Turning the 2020 Election Into a New Nightmare
• Dead Bugs Are Getting in the Way of Fully Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
• TikTok-parent ByteDance Launches its First Gadget in a Big Education Push
• Apple Develops Alternative to Google Search