Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, June 3rd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, all the news and headlines from W.W. D.C. the Antitrust Brigade might be coming for

Google in the US. A big chip acquisition, big news on the payments front, and a

dispatch from the front lines of the streaming wars. But come on, we know what you're

here to hear about. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So we're going to do something a little bit different right now. Today of all days I had a

commitment in the afternoon that I couldn't get out of. So Chris Higgins is going to give you

all of the W. W. D.C. news and then I'll be back after that to

fill you in on the rest of the day's news.

Take it away, Chris.

Today in San Jose, Tim Cook took the stage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

The stakes were unusually high as he faced a roomful of developers and other professionals

who have been waiting for six years for a new Mac Pro.

While WDC is normally a software-only event,

these developers would have burned the building down

if there weren't some mention of new Pro Hardware along with the expected

updates to all the operating systems and all that other stuff. So let's talk about

what they got and spoiler the building is not on fire.

So the headline news here is the new Mac Pro.

Apple had promised what they called a modular computer

and, amazingly enough, that's actually what they made. The form factor is very similar to a

typical tower PC with a serious dose of Apple style industrial design and some kind of

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