Welcome to the Tech Beam ride home for Tuesday, July 9th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Apple calls the Macbook herd. YouTube returns to Fire TV, a weird zero-day exploit in

Zoom's video conferencing app, Elon Musk shakes up his autopilot team and

Stranger Things 3 breaks records for Netflix.

Here's what you miss today and the notable editions are the

Macbook Air gets Apple's true tone display and a $100 price drop. The Air now starts at $1,099 or $999 for students,

but it's still got Intel's dual core 8th gen I-5 chips. No upgrade there. The base model Macbook Pro gets the biggest overhaul,

quote instead of the 2.3 gigahertz dual core seventh gen core I-5 chip set that Apple has offered for over two years.

The new entry-level Macbook Pro now offers a 1.4 gigahertz quad core 8th gen core I5 chip

which can boost up to 3.9 gigahertz. Sadly, the biggest flaw of the original

Macbook escape remains. Unlike the priceier 13-inch Macbook pro, it still only offers two USBC ports, not four, end quote.

Pricing begins at $1,299 for the 128 gigabyte SSD model and $1,1,999 for the 256 gigabyte model.

But the real news is what's been taken away, actually.

The 12 inch non-pro Macbook gone. The original Macbook air which had hung around despite

the air updates gone and the Macbook escape also gone which means if you want a Macbook pro without the touch bar, you are now officially out of luck.

And YouTube has officially returned to the Fire TV and Amazon's Prime video is

launching today with support for Chromcast and other Android TV devices.

So as I am Gartenberg says in The

Verge, Amazon and Google have basically made up. You might recall that

Google pulled the YouTube app almost a year and a half ago and Amazon retaliated.

Notably absent from the announcement is Amazon's echo show devices which were

excluded when Amazon and Google first announced the deal earlier this year and still no official YouTube app.

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