Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, May 18th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

All the headlines from Google's I.

Event. Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM and James Bond. When we might

expect those new Macbook pros, the first reviews of the M1 IMAX, and what's the deal with the new lossless music streaming not working with most of Apple's hardware?

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

Just in FYI as we get started for various reasons I had to record this next bit

away from my studio this afternoon so if you detect a change in audio

quality for just this segment.

That is why.

Well, Google hadn't gotten to deliver an I.O.

keynote in two years, so you would imagine

they'd have a lot to say.

They usually do. These Google events tend to go on and on, and this was no exception. After a tune yard's performance with, I'm not joking, a bunch of blobs,

Zundar Pichai showed up in what felt like a backyard,

socially distanced outside at the Googleplex in Mountain View,

and yes, they had a ton to say.

They went on for almost exactly two hours. I think I'll attempt to take it roughly in order.

Google unveiled new features for workspace, part of an initiative called Smart Canvas, including Smart Objects in Docks and

deeper integration with Meet. I was trying to figure out who Google's going after with this one,

and I came up with maybe Notion, a sauna perhaps.

Then there was Lambda, a language model for dialogue applications that Google says represents

a breakthrough for having natural conversations with AI.

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