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New releases: Surface Go 2, Macbook Pro 13-inch, and the first Xbox Series X gameplay footage (Goodbye Paul)
May 08, 2020
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Stories discussed this week:
- The disappointing truth about antibody testing
- Apple is giving $10 million to COVID-19 testing kit company
- FDA authorizes CRISPR-based test for COVID-19
- Sen. Ed Markey wants the FCC to rethink its broadband deployment plans
- An Amazon warehouse worker in New York has died of COVID-19
- An Amazon VP’s resignation has cast a spotlight on the company’s working conditions
- Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders demand Amazon explain whistleblower firings
- Pittsburgh’s airport is the first in the US to use UV-cleaning robots
- NYC will use powerful ultraviolet lamps to kill the coronavirus on subways and buses
- ESPN to air live NBA 2K League games
- We’ve known how to make healthier buildings for decades
- The spring of iterative hardware updates
- MacBook Pro 13-inch: come for the keyboard, stay for the performance
- The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over
- Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor
- Microsoft Surface Book 3: new Nvidia GPUs, up to ... - The Verge
- Watch the first Xbox Series X gameplay footage, showing off ray-tracing and graphics of the next-gen console
- These 11 new games will get free upgrades for the Xbox Series X
- Here are the first 13 games optimized for the Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series X Optimized games promise 4K up to 120fps, ray tracing, and fast load times
- Madden 21 shows that cross-gen gaming on Xbox Series X and PS5 could be messy
- Sonos announces the Arc, its first Dolby Atmos soundbar
- Sonos will launch its new app and big S2 software update on June 8th
- Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
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