MWC 2023 gadgets, Meta's AR / VR roadmap, and TikTok's Bold Glamour filter

Published: March 3, 2023, 8 a.m.

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss the phones and laptops announced at Mobile World Congress, Meta's AR and VR hardware roadmap for the next few years, Tesla's "Master Plan", and more of this week's tech news.\nFurther reading:\n\nMWC 2023 was a preview of what future phones could (and should) look like\n\n\nHMD's latest Nokia phone is designed to be repaired in minutes\xa0\n\n\nThe Xiaomi 13 Pro is going global\xa0\n\n\nRealme\u2019s ridiculous 240W fast-charging phone is getting an international release\xa0\n\nMotorola\u2019s new Razr foldable is arriving this year\t\n\n\nLenovo\u2019s rollable laptop and smartphone are a compelling, unfinished pitch for the future\xa0\n\nThis is Meta\u2019s AR / VR hardware roadmap for the next four years\n\nElon Musk says Twitter employees will receive \u2018very significant\u2019 stock awards on March 24th\n\nTwitter shut off its internal Slack, and now \u2018everyone is barely working\u2019\n\n\nTwitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter\xa0\n\nElon Musk's 'lab leak' tweets could be an issue for Tesla's plans in China\n\nTesla\u2019s new \u2018Master Plan\u2019 is coming \u2014 let\u2019s grade the first two\n\n\nElon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, no new cars\xa0\n\n\nWhy won\u2019t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI?\xa0\n\n\nOpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech\xa0\n\nMicrosoft now lets you change Bing\u2019s chatbot personality to be more entertaining\n\nMicrosoft\u2019s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC\n\n\nSony announces 2023 TV lineup: better late than never\n\n\nEmail us at vergecast@theverge.com or call our Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices