Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, March 18th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

It's a day of new, new iPads Pro, new Mac Books Air, new Mac's Mini, and more Bye-bye to Butterfly

keyboards. A new transcribe for Android, a new design overhaul for Slack, all the specs for the new

PlayStation 5 and why Cameo is a new app to keep your eye on here's what you

missed today in the world of tech.

Apple did that thing this morning where it just up and releases a whole bunch of new products without the fanfare of an event or a formal launch just a press release. Three big updates, but let's start with the new iPad

pro because that's available to order today,

starting at $799. The headline making updates include a full three-camera array, including

a new LIDAR sensor for depth sensing, a backlit keyboard with trackpad, and in fact fact it's a whole new keyboard with a whole new

configuration quoting the verge. Both the 11 inch and 12.9 inch sizes look

identical to last year's models but there's a new processor and new camera system inside them both.

Apple's headline feature is that it has a LIDAR scanner to go along with its camera for depth sensing

and AR, but what most people are going to notice is that very new keyboard

that you can get with it. The keyboard unfolds and elevates the iPad to a more

comfortable viewing position. It also has a trackpad on it.

Apple says, rather than copying the experience from Mac OS,

trackpad support has been completely reimagined for iPad.

As users move their fingers across the trackpad,

the pointer

elegantly transforms to highlight user interface elements, end quote.

Apple is calling it a magic keyboard matching the branding it recently used on the

redesigned and improved Macbook keyboard. It is backlit, supports

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