Vergecast: Apple announces brand-new iPad Pro and MacBook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs

After a week of working from home, The Vergecast go back to tape-recording remotely. There was a great deal of coverage on the site today about efforts for testing and consisting of the unique coronavirus pandemic, but one story, in specific, brought the discussion to the podcast: the confusion surrounding a Google-funded website implied aid discover coronavirus testing centers.

A week ago today, President Trump announced during an emergency declaration that Google was developing a site to assist people in the US get evaluated if they needed it. Vergecast hosts Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller talk about the precision of the statements, who is really constructing a website, and what the status of getting evaluated appears like today.

In the second half of the show, the team shifts gears into the gadget world. Apple today announced an updated iPad Pro and MacBook Air after weeks of reports and leakages. Now that an iPad will have a trackpad, how thin is the line between the laptop and the tablet?

There’s likewise a lot more sprayed throughout the program– like some in-the-weeds discussion about PS5 specifications and Paul’s weekly sector “ I’m a Moog male now“– so listen through to hear it all.

Stories discussed today:

• Comcast modestly raises slow internet speeds for low-income users because of coronavirus
• AT&T is suspending broadband information caps for home web clients due to coronavirus
• AT&T,