Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for February 1st 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today it's a day ending in AY so that must mean Google discontinued another flagship product

Microsoft reports that its next growth industry is cyber security ring has

basically doubled the amount of police and fire departments that can request access to your doorbell videos

and what happened when Elon Musk showed up on clubhouse last night.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Google has discontinued the Pixel Slate,

which was its first flagship tablet announced all the way back in October 2018.

Apparently now the game plan is to focus on laptops like the Pixel Book Go.

That's the plan now, but hey, in six months I might be reporting how they're discontinuing all

pixel books, you never know, quoting 9 to 5 Google.

At the start of last month, we reported on how the Pixel Slate was out of stock in the US, Canada, and UK.

Inventory did not return in the intervening weeks, and the Google Store today removed the product listing entirely. It's also no longer shown under the main

Pixelbook tab. The Pixelbook pen was also taken down though replacement tips remain

available. Google pushed both entertainment and productivity use cases for its tablet.

The latter was aided by an official keyboard case that connected via pins and had round

chiklet keys.

The USBC ports supported 4K display output for a docked configuration.

Design-wise, all units were available in midnight blue and the device weighed 1.6 pounds for a felt 7mm thickness.

Overall, standalone Chromebook tablets versus convertible 2 and 1s have yet to take off as a form factor.

Android apps were the primary appeal, but the experience was lacking and more

optimized experiences were found on the web.

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