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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Reviews for the Macbook Air and iPad Pro (2020) and how the coronavirus is affecting tech companies and culture
Stories discussed this week:
- Amazon warehouse workers are outraged after a coworker tested positive for COVID-19 and they weren’t notified
- ‘We’re all going to get sick eventually’: Amazon workers are struggling to provide for a nation in quarantine
- It’s time for a regular Amazon daily coronavirus briefing
- Twitter locks account encouraging coronavirus ‘chickenpox parties’
- Zoom is 2020’s hottest yoga studio
- Apple says customers must wait to pick up repairs locked inside its retail stores
- Best Buy moves to curbside pickup only as it sees surge in orders for home office equipment
- Disney Plus and Facebook are also reducing streaming quality in Europe
- Amazon and Apple are reducing streaming quality to lessen broadband strain in Europe
- YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe
- YouTube creators figure out how to film during a pandemic
- Fashion influencers are rethinking their curated aesthetics because they can’t leave their houses
- Fox will broadcast NASCAR’s substitute sim racing ‘season’ on television
- Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and NASCAR canceled races
- How to watch movies with friends online
- Everything you need to know about the coronavirus
- Subscribe to Home Screen: a newsletter to brighten your inbox
- Apple MacBook Air (2020) review: the best Mac for most people
- Apple iPad Pro review 2020: small spec bump, big camera bump
- Never buy hardware today based on a promise of software tomorrow
- The new MacBook Air and iPad Pro are already discounted on Amazon
- Huawei hopes the P40 Pro can lure you away from Google
- Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone
- Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs
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