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New releases: Surface Go 2, Macbook Pro 13-inch, and the first Xbox Series X gameplay footage (Goodbye Paul)

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Stories discussed this week:

  • The disappointing truth about antibody testing
  • Apple is giving $10 million to COVID-19 testing kit company
  • FDA authorizes CRISPR-based test for COVID-19
  • Sen. Ed Markey wants the FCC to rethink its broadband deployment plans
  • An Amazon warehouse worker in New York has died of COVID-19
  • An Amazon VP’s resignation has cast a spotlight on the company’s working conditions
  • Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders demand Amazon explain whistleblower firings
  • Pittsburgh’s airport is the first in the US to use UV-cleaning robots
  • NYC will use powerful ultraviolet lamps to kill the coronavirus on subways and buses
  • ESPN to air live NBA 2K League games
  • We’ve known how to make healthier buildings for decades
  • The spring of iterative hardware updates
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch: come for the keyboard, stay for the performance
  • The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over
  • Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor
  • Microsoft Surface Book 3: new Nvidia GPUs, up to ... - The Verge
  • Watch the first Xbox Series X gameplay footage, showing off ray-tracing and graphics of the next-gen console
  • These 11 new games will get free upgrades for the Xbox Series X
  • Here are the first 13 games optimized for the Xbox Series X
  • Xbox Series X Optimized games promise 4K up to 120fps, ray tracing, and fast load times
  • Madden 21 shows that cross-gen gaming on Xbox Series X and PS5 could be messy
  • Sonos announces the Arc, its first Dolby Atmos soundbar
  • Sonos will launch its new app and big S2 software update on June 8th
  • Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team

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