Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, May 28th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the iPod Touch Lives and it got an update. Dell's whole laptop lineup got an update.

The Apocalypse is coming for small vendors on Amazon.

Mackenzie Bezos signs the giving pledge and why a laptop infested with malware sold for 1.3 million dollars.

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

Well, it looks like Apple is clearing the hardware decks ahead of next week's

W. W. D.C. Apple this morning launched a new iPod touch sporting the A10

Fusion chip which is the chip that can be found in the

iPhone 7s also support for group Face Time and a new 256 gigabyte storage option.

This is the iPod Touch's first update in nearly four years.

The entire design of the iPod touch is unchanged. same 4 inch display, same home button quoting the

verge. The A10 ship does provide enough firepower for a few new features including

group FaceTime calls and Apple's AR kit augmented reality apps,

both of which were previously unavailable on the iPod touch.

The company says that compared to the older model, the updated version will offer up to two times faster

CPU performance and up to three times faster graphics.

Apple is highlighting its upcoming Apple Arcade gaming subscription service as a

key part of the device, which is likely a reason for

the spec boost to make sure that the new iPod touch can still run all those games.

It makes sense given Apple's recent focus on subscriptions as a new revenue source going forward."

Indeed, the words that Apple released in the announcement do in fact lean into that with Greg Josuiac, Apple's vice president of product marketing quoted as saying,

we're making the most affordable iOS device even better with performance that is twice as

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