Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, highlights from that Microsoft Surface event from yesterday.

Uber launches its scooter play.

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Did you get your smartphone alert from the president this afternoon?

And the new app startup from a young entrepreneur by the name of Bill Gates.

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

As promised, here is everything that was unveiled at yesterday afternoon's Microsoft Surface

event.

First up, the Surface Pro6 was announced sporting Intel's eighth

generation chips, a reported 13 and a half hour battery life. The new

device is reportedly 67% faster than its predecessor and it will be available October 16th starting at 899 dollars.

Oh and the tablet laptop hybrid gets a new matte black color variant the first time in five years

Microsoft has gone black but much too many people's consternation there are no

USBC ports on these new surface devices, so we're somehow now in a universe where people

are upset if they don't get USBC.

There was also a new Surface Laptop 2, also with a black finish and also with the Intel 8th Gen chips.

Claims of a 85% speed improvement, also coming October 16th, starting at $999 for the 8 gigabytes of RAM model.

And the sort of desktop all in one converts to a drafting sort of surface.

Surface Studio 2 was announced.

It got 50% faster graphics, a 28 inch display that's 38% brighter, but this Surface Studio 2 is coming November 15th,

and it is starting at $3,469.

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