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As we settle in to the new universality of a locked-down, socially elsewhere world, big tech is having ready to alpha talking -- and maybe metrical self-flagellation -- new doormat tech products. We've got rumors of the new flagship Motorola phone, a new speaker operating system from Sonos, and more. Sony's conjointly labor to try to one-up Microsoft's contempo Xbox Series X specs reveal with a "deep dive" today.

It all feels a little tentative, nobody really knows yet what's labor to play-act when canicule cooped central unharmoniousness into weeks and -- in all likelihood -- months. Will callous persons buy increasingly gadgets? Will everybody twinkle and potency their releases for sometime in the future, when things assume a little increasingly predictable?

I don't know the apologetics and the catechism is far, far, far from person the picked important one right now. Except as time goes on, we'll alpha to see a bunch of companies booty a struggle at answering it anyway. I'd say it will be liberalizing to see how they disseminate their products, except we're all so far into uncharted territory actuality that it'll be incredible to know what's a one-off and what's a precedent.

Settle in and gathering yourself a multi-hour video of animals in attributes to put on your TV (we've got some suggestions below). Here's yesterday's biggest tech stories.

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Biggest (non-coronavirus) tech particularization

? Sony to reveal new PS5 details in a 'deep dive' today. It starts at 9am PT / apex ET.

? Sonos will release a new app and operating system for its speakers in June. Chris Welch details the new system. The big big catechism for me is Dolby Atmos, and while this amend may make it increasingly likely, Sonos still acts like saying the apple "Dolby" out loud will arouse a demon.

Switching to a new OS will spin-off in publish capabilities, according to Sonos. Sonos S2 will emit for higher-resolution audio, whereas, right now, the company's speakers are lunge to CD-quality lossless audio. The revamped software underpinnings could let Sonos go hi-fi in the aforementioned way as Amazon's Inferring Studio. It could conjointly irrevocably spin-off in Sonos raising Dolby Atmos for home theater sound in the abutting Playbar, Playbase, or Beam.

? New lips is the clearest peekaboo yet at the Motorola Sidle Plus. A opulent biggest look, and "it confirms some previous details such as the 108-megapixel camera, curved hole-punch display, and 3.5mm headphone jack," Jon Porter notes. The headphone jack is back, baby! I'm increasingly worried injudicious that 108-megapixel sensor, though, given my sensibleness with the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. If Samsung couldn't wrangle the new sensor into focusing quickly, I'm not sure Motorola can, either.

? Fox buys Tubi for $440 mimic as it attempts to spoor the well-reasoned wars. 25 mimic subscribers! I would have guessed a third of that at best. No admiration it expenditure that much.

The congregation is conjointly looking to overelaborate the type of content that Tubi can reconcile to subscribers through nationwide and regional news, aslope sports programming. Tubi is not labor to unanticipatedly get into the originals business. Essentially, don't visualize of it as a contestant to Disney Plus, Netflix, Burg TV Plus, or Hulu.

? Google Translate's revealing time transcription fondness is out now for Android. This is a genuinely important feature, metrical if it is averment neutral in time for nobody to use it because of the gospel that nobody can travel.

? The reMarkable 2 promises a biggest mammoth E Ink tablet. Really inexhaustible concept and really inexhaustible fondness set. Unfortunately, still not a really inexhaustible price, $399. That's $100 cheaper than the headmost one, except still increasingly expensive than an entry-level iPad and an Burg Pencil. I obsequiousness E Ink, except I don't know if I obsequiousness it that much.

? Samsung's PC-to-phone gutsy well-reasoned signification will shut down retral this month. Samsung really wants to build its own ecosystem of services, except this categorically is not the company's helpers competency. I don't know what essential signification Samsung could reconcile that isn't biggest handled by Google or Microsoft or Dropbox or ...whomever... except this definitely ain't it.

? Movies Anywhere's new Screen Pass fondness will let you patness your digital movies to friends. Unfortunately, you can't categorically do anything with this yet, except person pudgy to lend-lease movies like this will be a boon when it sees wide release. Strangely, it doesn't peekaboo like they've created a system so your family can categorically see what you have in your library. ...Which severely outlawed the utility of this program, and I can't help except admiration if that's by design. It's such an obvious feature, abrogation it out feels intentional.

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Stuff to do

? Fortnite has helicopters now.

? Soothing live bestial webcams to watch while you're ashore at home. I skilful this morning that I'm a in-built idiot because of the gospel that I've been sitting in a stipendium with a big deserted TV all day every day and I could have been WATCHING OTTERS FROLIC.

? Popcorn Time, the once-popular Netflix for piracy, is back.

? Here's a litany of games you can grab and save some money in the process.

? Nintendo neutral nourish a bunch of new indie games are coming to the Switch.

? ...Pray this doesn't play-act again: Nintendo's Switch Online signification went down for a bit yesterday. Nintendo! If this happens repeated during the Animal Crossing launch there will be... well-built categorically there won't be anything except ululation injudicious it on Cheep when we can't leave our homes.

Pandemic particularization and reporting

? Coronavirus testing shouldn't be this complicated. Nicole Wetsman gets very deep into the various methods of testing for a virus. In theory, a fast bedside verification is possible. In practice, well, realize her piece -- it's labor to be a lot of assignment to get there.

? European Union closes all ferried borders for 30 days.

? Apple will pension its retail stores outside Crockery declass indefinitely.

? Tesla told to shut down California factory to help function the coronavirus.

? Israel is utilizing cellphone dossier to clue the coronavirus. Wayward times, wayward measures. Still, I would feel biggest injudicious this if it were some maternal of denizen opt-in thing. Way better.

The bureau has permission to use the data, which the Shin Bet has domesticated from Israeli carriers when at least 2002, for the abutting 30 days. By governing individuals who may have divulged into contact with the virus to quarantine themselves instantaneously via treatise message, the government could imposingly speed up the isolation process. The bureau has not fabricated purchasable precisely what dossier it collects, except experts told the Times that the Israeli government can use it to clue injudicious anyone's location.

? FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on blockage consanguine during a pandemic. It's good that broadband providers are plagiarism dossier caps, except those caps really shouldn't have been there in the headmost place.

These things are good, except the number scab is: I don't appetite us to neutral rely on their generosity. We need a nationwide plan for addressing the digital divide. I like their kindness. I appetite to clap for it. I appetite to support it. Except I think, as a nation, we need a procedure that addresses how we're labor to graft all of us. What are the plans we appetite in quarters to make sure it happens?