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Apple announces new iPad Pro and Macbook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs, and confusion around the coronavirus testing website

Apple announces new iPad Pro and Macbook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs, and confusion around the coronavirus testing website

FromThe Vergecast


Apple announces new iPad Pro and Macbook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs, and confusion around the coronavirus testing website

FromThe Vergecast

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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss the new iPad Pro and Macbook Air that Apple announced this week, the confusion around Google's coronavirus testing website, and the specs revealed for the PS5.
Stories discussed this week:

Comcast modestly raises slow internet speeds for low-income users because of coronavirus

AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and others agree not to overcharge customers during coronavirus

Verily’s coronavirus screening website launches with very limited access

Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects

The White House still can’t explain what’s going on with the coronavirus screening website

Coronavirus testing shouldn’t be this complicated

Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread

Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild keyboard cover

iPadOS 13.4 adds full mouse and trackpad support

The iPad Pro is ready to supplant the Mac just as the MacBook Air is great again

Logitech’s iPad keyboard case with trackpad costs half as much as Apple’s

The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR sensor is an AR hardware solution in search of software

The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR scanner can turn a living room into an AR game of Hot Lava

You can try the iPad’s new trackpad and mouse support right now with Apple’s public beta

Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, faster performance, and more storage

Moog and Korg are offering synth apps for free while we’re all stuck at home

PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: a complicated battle of SSD and GPU speeds

Sony says the PlayStation 5’s SSD will completely change next-gen level design

The Xbox Series X specs look impressive, but that’s not enough

Here’s how Xbox Series X removable storage will work


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Released:
Mar 20, 2020
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Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. And on Tuesdays, Nilay hosts in-depth, one-on-one interviews with major technology leaders. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.