The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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episode 397: Apple announces new iPad Pro and Macbook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs, and confusion around the coronavirus testing website
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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