Tue. 05/21 - Has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem?

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem? Huawei gets a 90 day reprieve, Instagram wants to copy Snapchat AND TikTok, the first self-driving mail trucks, and why would your smart car want to tell people if you’ve gained weight? Sponsors: AirTable.com/techmeme Castro Podcast App Sonic.com/ride Links: Apple tweaks its troubled MacBook keyboard design yet again, expands repair program (The Verge) U.S. eases curbs on Huawei; founder says clampdown underestimates Chinese firm (Reuters) Google will work with Huawei for 90 days after US eases trade restrictions (CNBC) DOJ Leans Against Approving T-Mobile’s Takeover of Sprint (Bloomberg) Instagram's IGTV copies TikTok's AI, Snapchat's Design (TechCrunch) Google brings release channels and Windows Container support to its Kubernetes Engine (TechCrunch) Self-Driving Trucks Will Carry Mail in U.S. for the First Time (Bloomberg) Hand Gestures And Horses: Waymo’s Self-Driving Service Learns To Woo The Public (Forbes) Chevy rolls out new feature that locks teens out of driving until they buckle up (The Verge) Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight (NYTimes) Subscribe to the ad-free, Premium Feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, May 21st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem?
0:13.6	Huawei gets a 90-day respite.
0:16.2	Instagram wants to copy Snapchat and Tik-Tock,
0:19.5	the first self-driving mail trucks,
0:21.7	and why would your smart car want to tell people you've
0:26.4	gained weight? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:31.1	Apple has updated the 13 inch and 15 inch MacBook Pro touch bar models and this is mainly a
0:39.4	spec bump but first of all the laptops get ninth generation Intel processors with up to
0:46.7	eight cores which on the fastest model Apple claims can achieve 40% faster speeds than previous chips.
0:55.0	But what's getting all of the headlines
0:57.5	is that Apple said these new computers also have a new iteration
1:00.5	of its butterfly keyboard using new materials in the switch mechanism that
1:05.9	Apple says should reduce things like double key presses and missed key presses.
1:10.3	Quoting the verge.
1:12.6	The company had no announcements on whether it would use this quote new material on other
1:17.2	Macbooks it sells going forward, i.e. whether it would change its manufacturing on current
1:22.4	third generation devices.
1:24.4	On a call this morning the company also declined to actually characterize what the new material
1:28.1	is other than to say it quote substantially reduces the issue of double or missed key presses.
1:34.4	The new design still counts as third generation,
1:38.0	aka the same keyboard that shipped on the new Macbook air,
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