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Monday, Mar. 26, 2018 - The First Chrome OS Tablets

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The first Chrome OS tablet, Uber exits Southeast Asia, Tim Cook thinks Facebook should be regulated, The Fitbit Versa smartwatch, and a billion dollar ATM hacker gang is taken down. Stories from: @thepacketrat, @VranicaWSJ Tweets from: @alexhern Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Monday, March 26, 2018.

0:07.0

Welcome to the Tech Neem Ride Home.

0:11.8

Today, the first Chrome OS tablet is revealed. Tim Cook thinks Facebook

0:17.4

should be regulated. Uber exits the Southeast Asia market. The Fitbit Versa Smart Watches reviewed, and a billion dollar

0:26.5

ATM hacker gang is taken down by authorities. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:41.0

Tomorrow is the Apple Education event, which will tell you all about, of course, but today, Google tried to bite Apple's style a bit by announcing the first ever

0:47.5

tablets to run Chrome OS.

0:50.6

So far, the standalone tablets that Google has produced have run Android, but the AASER

0:56.7

Chromebook tab 10 is a 9.7 inch tablet with a built-in stylus that starts at $329 and will run

1:06.9

Chrome OS the operating system found on the laptops in the

1:14.1

top-topts in the education market that Apple is reportedly targeting with tomorrow's event.

1:16.7

The $329 price point matches Apple's current entry-level iPad model.

1:22.1

Apple is expected to release an iPad that costs $259 tomorrow, but currently the

1:28.1

Apple pencil is a separate $99 purchase. So it's notable that the tab 10 has stylus support. Like on the

1:36.8

Galaxy Note series the stylus slides into the device for storage and it doesn't

1:41.8

require a battery or charging to work.

1:45.3

As for the specs, the tab 10 has a 9.7 inch 248 by 1536 display, as I mentioned, and has front and rear facing cameras, a nine hour battery life,

1:58.4

an OP1 processor, 4 gigabytes of RAM, 32 gigabytes of storage, and a USBC port.

2:05.0

There's also a micro-SD card slot for greater storage and, wait for it, a headphone jack. The tab 10 is supposed to be available in April.

2:16.6

Uber has apparently agreed to sell all of its Southeast Asian operations to Grab,

2:24.6

Uber's main ride-hailing competitor in that market.

2:28.8

According to Bloomberg, Grab will acquire all of Uber's operations in the region,

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