Reviews for the Macbook Air and iPad Pro (2020) and how the coronavirus is affecting tech companies and culture

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Verge House, we talk about other coronavirus is affecting tech companies and tech culture big and small.
0:05.2	We go into our MacBook Air and iPad Pro reviews, talk a little bit about the Huawei P40 Pro.
0:10.1	There's an Android history lesson in there somewhere.
0:12.1	There's a weird little delab that we think is interesting.
0:14.0	Coming up on the Verge House now.
0:15.4	I'm Gideon Litchfield. I'm the editor in Chief of Oied.
0:18.1	And I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:20.6	We're making a new show.
0:21.8	Have a nice future.
0:24.5	I'm more have a nice future. Question mark.
0:28.1	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:32.4	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:36.0	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face about the challenges they're creating
0:40.4	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
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0:50.1	Hi, I'm Leo Laporte, founder and host at Twitch.
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