Wed. 05/06 – Disney+ Is Saving Mickey’s Bacon At The Moment

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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New Surface Gos, New Surface Books, New Surface Headphones and the Surface Buds finally arrive. The rumored layoffs come to Uber and Airbnb. Disney+ is saving Disney’s bacon at the moment. And why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive Corona moment. Sponsors: Tibco.com/ride Caramba.store, code BRIAN50 at checkout Links: Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor (The Verge) Microsoft's Surface Book 3 has 10th-gen Intel CPUs and new NVIDIA GPUs (Engadget) Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce (CNBC) The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode) Magic Leap is turning to a major health care company to save its future, potentially raising as much as $100 million (Business Insider) Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC) People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes) Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today, new Surface Goes, new Surface Books, new Surface Headphones, and the Surface Buds finally arrive.
0:15.4	The rumored layoffs come to Uber and AirB&B at long last.
0:19.8	Disney Plus is saving Disney's Bacon at the moment and why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive
0:25.3	Corona moment.
0:26.3	Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.
0:29.1	The smallest sibling in the Surface tablet lineup has a shiny new pair of shoes today.
0:38.0	Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Go 2 with a bigger 10 and a half inch display up from 10 inches on the original
0:46.2	and better Intel processors inside new 8th Gen Core M3s. You can get one on May 12th starting at $379 and as for the processor
0:58.8	bump Microsoft says if you do so you can expect 64% better performance.
1:04.0	And as for the screen size, the new display panel
1:07.0	doesn't change the size of the device overall
1:09.0	because the bezzles have been reduced.
1:12.0	Quoting the verge. They're not reduced, quoting the Virge.
1:13.6	They're not as skinny as the ones found on the Surface Pro X,
1:17.4	but there's certainly nowhere near as big
1:19.2	as the original surface go from nearly two years ago.
1:22.1	The bigger display also means a bigger
1:24.0	1920 by 1280 resolution, 220 people I while still maintaining the 3 to 2 aspect ratio
1:31.4	surface products are known for.
1:33.7	While the base surface go-to includes 4 gigabytes of ram and 64 gigabytes of eMMC storage,
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