The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition iOS14 public beta is released, Google’s Pixel 3A is discontinued, and Samsung's event is coming soon
Jul 10, 2020
01:16:02
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Dan Seifert discuss Apple's iOS14 public beta, the future of Google's phones, and what to expect at Samsung's next hardware event.
Stories discussed this week:
- This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunami
- Tracing the link between your phone and the next pandemic
- Doctors are better at treating COVID-19 patients now than they were in March
- After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay
- Facebook and Instagram will remind people to wear face masks
- White YouTube creators struggle to address past use of racist characters
- Everything that the big social networks banned this week, ranked
- Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Starbucks, Target, Unilever, Verizon: all the companies pulling ads from Facebook
- Facebook auditors call out Mark Zuckerberg for ‘vexing and heartbreaking decisions’
- iOS 14’s public beta is rolling out today
- iOS and iPadOS 14 public beta preview: something for everybody
- Reddit says it’s fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents
- LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard
- Apple promises to support Thunderbolt on its new ARM Macs
- Intel’s Thunderbolt 4 standard looks to raise the bar for USB-C devices
- Google’s Pixel 3A is discontinued, but these retailers are still selling it
- Samsung reportedly won’t include chargers with some phones starting next year
- Samsung needs a splashy product for its splashy product launch
- Mysterious new Samsung wearable revealed in FCC filings
- Logitech is already giving up on its Alexa-powered Harmony remote control
- Google’s upcoming Nest speaker revealed in regulatory filing
- BMW is going all-in on in-car microtransactions
- A weakened version of the EARN IT Act advances out of committee
- Fading Light: the story of Magic Leap’s lost mixed reality magnum opus
- I built my own camera with a Raspberry Pi 4
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