Big tech at Capitol Hill, Elon Musk's brain machine interface, and Macbook 2019 reviews

Nilay Patel invites a cavalry of experts from The Verge (Makena Kelly, Adi Robertson, Liz Lopatto, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller) to discuss the Big Tech hearings that took over Capitol Hill, Elon Musk's Neuralink brain machine interface, and the new Macbook reviews. 

Stories this week: 

• Facebook reportedly reaches $5 billion settlement with the Federal …
• Facebook tells Congress how it thinks Libra should be regulated
• House Democrats are considering a bill to ban Facebook from the …
• Senators aren’t sold on Facebook’s Libra project
• EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
• The unpredictable legal implications of Trump’s Twitter-blocking defeat
• Elon Musk unveils Neuralink's plans for brain-reading 'threads'
• Boston Dynamics' robots are preparing to leave the lab — is the world ready? 
• Apple is silently updating Macs again to remove insecure ... 
• Apple MacBook Air (2019) review: the new normal
• Apple MacBook Pro 13 2019 Two USB ports review: considered ...