Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, October 1st, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

New Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X for Microsoft.

Google is going to pay $1 billion to support journalism globally.

Google has a photos update, but why is Stadia already looking shaky and a textbook example of a developer's dream of overnight success that was actually years in the making?

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

Microsoft this morning took the wrapping off a new surface laptop go with a smaller 12.4 inch display

10th gen Intel core I-5 processors, and actually there are three different

models here, but they're available for pre-order today and shipping October 13th.

The headline here is that the Go starts at just $549, thereby making this one of the lowest cost surface devices yet,

only bested in cheapness by the $379 surface go-2.

The target here is people who are making. $3,99 Surface Go2.

The target here is people who are maybe Chromebook Curious, quoting The Verge.

The Surface Laptop Go, as the name implies, is mostly the same service you've seen before but smaller and lighter.

Microsoft is using a smaller 12.4 inch display than the 13.5 inch one found on

the Surface Laptop 3, but it's also running just 1536 by 1024 resolution.

That's still more than standard 720 P.H.D.

Thanks to the 3 by 2 aspect ratio.

But even the Surface Go 2 managed to hit 1920 by 1280 on a smaller 10.5 inch

display. This smaller frame makes the Surface Laptop Go the lightest Surface L ever, at just 2.45 pounds. That's lighter than

Apple's Macbook Air and many Chromebooks or Windows laptops at this price point. Microsoft is still

including a full-size keyboard with 1.3

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