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Love for eReaders, Hate for Browsers - DTNS 5263

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Why everyone loves the new ReMarkable Paper Pure, and why both Chrome and Edge browsers are misbehaving.


Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.


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0:00.0

This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 6th, Seis de Mayo, 2026. We tell you what you need to know,

0:15.8

give you the important context, and help each other understand. Today, Remarkable releases the paper pure, a $399 e-ink

0:24.5

note-taking tablet. And most everyone seems to love it. Yeah, we got a lot of love in the show.

0:30.0

We also have a lot of hate for browsers. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Sarah Lane. Let's start with what you

0:34.1

need to know with the big story.

0:44.5

Remarkable has released its successor to the Remarkable 2 called, as Sarah just said, the paper pure.

0:45.5

It sits at the lower end of the current lineup.

0:48.1

There's the paper pro.

0:49.5

Then there's the slightly smaller paper pro move.

0:52.1

And now we have the paper pure.

0:54.0

It is a 10.3-inch e-ink tablet,

0:56.4

same as the remarkable two, although slightly wider aspect ratio than the two. It can handle

1:01.4

PDFs and e-books, comes with an active stylus, and they say they've improved the response rate

1:07.3

when you're interacting with it. They've also improved the display contrast. Same

1:11.5

resolution, though. Battery life estimated at three weeks on a charge, which is a little better as well.

1:16.4

And it's lighter, 360 grams, which about 40 grams lighter than the remarkable too.

1:20.6

Has security features designed to make it attractive to your corporate IT manager, should you want to use it at work.

1:26.5

It has the ability to integrate your

1:28.0

calendar, take secure meeting notes, there's a sync service that convert your cloud documents

1:33.8

into a format suitable for using that stylus and annotating it. You can convert your handwritten

1:39.3

notes to text, and then there's a method for sharing that right into slack. You can also share your sketches on

1:45.6

Miro if you use that. The remarkable paper pure starts at $399 or $50 more, $449, gets you the marker

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