Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, July 10th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Microsoft Today Microsoft unveiled a new surface tablet

police can probably still break into

iPhones for the time being

YouTube fights fake news

the new silicon gold Rush is on and Netflix makes binging even easier.

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

Late last night, Microsoft unveiled a new 10-inch $379

dollar Surface Go tablet with a USBC port, micro-sd slot, and a Pentium Gold CPU.

Lots of people are headlining this by calling it Microsoft's iPad killer, but I'm not sure that that gets it exactly right.

As Wired says, Surface Go is an attempt to bring most of the premium features of

a thousand dollar Surface Pro to something that's both

ultra portable and more affordable. In other words it's an iPad competitor if an

iPad was trying harder to be a full laptop replacement. Like the Surface Pro, the Surface Go comes with the

detachable keyboard slash cover that we're used to. It has a built-in kickstand, pen support, and the 3-2 aspect ratio that we're used to as well.

There's even a so-called surface mobile mouse that you can buy separately.

But at 9.6 by 6.9 by 0.33 inches

and weighing in at 1.15 pounds,

this is about as portable a device as you can get.

And it's the cheapest surface that you can get.

Again, the 64 gigabyte version starts at 399

and ships with Windows 10 Home in S- Mode.

You can pre-order today and it will ship August 2nd.

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