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Wed. 05/13 – What If We Never Go Back To The Office?

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

News, Tech News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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New XPS laptops, new Fire HD tablets, Facebook is compensating content moderators, how the pandemic has affected clothes shopping, and how the aftermath of the pandemic might affect offices in the sense of: will we actually ever go back to them? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com BuyRaycon.com/tech Links: Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays (The Verge) Amazon updates the Fire HD 8 with a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C (The Verge) Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job (The Verge) Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+ (Digiday) US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery (TechCrunch) Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever (Buzzfeed News) Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg) Subscribe to the ad free feed in 60 seconds, right here inside your podcast app! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Wednesday, May 13th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:08.6

New XPS laptops, new Fire HD tablets. Facebook is compensating content moderators, how the pandemic has

0:16.3

affected clothes shopping, and how the aftermath of the pandemic may affect offices in the sense

0:22.3

of will we actually ever go back to offices?

0:25.8

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

0:30.0

Dell has announced new

0:34.0

expi 17 and exps 15 laptops redesigned with new 16 to 10

0:41.0

ratioed edge displays,

0:44.0

USBC ports exclusively,

0:47.0

and Intel's 10th generation CPU's

0:50.0

all of this starting at $1,300 and $1,500 respectively, quoting the Verge.

0:56.6

The new XPS 15 design is the most significant update in nearly five years with a bigger 16 by 10 15.6 inch display Intel's

1:06.7

latest 10th generation processors and even models with NVIDIA's G Force

1:11.2

GTX 1650 TI max Q graphics inside. The new 15.6

1:18.0

inch display trims the bezzles down on all sides and drops the ugly bottom chin

1:22.3

bezel that has plagued the

1:24.0

XPS lineup in recent years. It also enables the XPS 15 to support a 16 to 10

1:30.4

aspect ratio just like Dell did with the XPS 13 earlier this year.

1:35.9

You can pick between a more than 4K display or a regular FHD display and both include a tiny top-meled webcam. You'll also be able to

1:46.6

configure the XPS 15 with up to Intel's Core I-9 45 watt chip and 64 GB of RAM as well as 2 terabytes of storage.

1:57.0

Dell is also including two USBC Thunderbolt 3 ports, a regular USBC 3.1 port, and a full-size SD card reader.

2:06.6

Much like the XPS 13, Dell is ditching legacy ports like USBA and

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