El Kaiser and J.D. were off binging Good Omens, but finished just in time for Apple’s 2019 edition of its World Wide Developers Conference. This week’s episode discusses the major announcements from the keynote — including a revamp of El Kaiser’s absolute favorite piece of Mac desktop hardware. Looming government regulation, verified Rotten Tomatoes reviews and a virus-riddled laptop celebrated as art are also in this week’s headlines. Listen in to Episode 310!

Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment

• “Good Omens” (Official Trailer | Prime Video)
• How Amazon’s Good Omens series pays tribute to author Terry Pratchett (Polygon)
• Robert Pattinson Is Officially ‘The Batman’ (Variety)

• Apple’s WWDC Highlights: Death of iTunes and $6,000 Macs (The New York Times)
• Why the iPhone 11 successor could be the phone to get (CNET)
• Apple Suddenly Confirms Three New iPhones (Forbes)
• Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators (The Washington Post)
• Google Is at the Center of a Storm Brewing Over Big Tech (The New York Times)
• Twitter Is Running Lots More Ads, And Some Are Scammy Or Just Bad (BuzzFeed News)
• Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users (VICE)
• An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community Standards (Facebook Newsroom)
• Opinion | Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook’s Dirty Tricks (The New York Times)
• IGTV Now Supports Landscape Videos (Instagram)
• How Ireland became Europe’s data watchdog (BBC News)
• What’s for dinner? Order it with Google (Google blog)
• Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint  (Reuters)
• Mobile carrier AT&T will now accept payments in crypto (The Block)
• Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions (Bloomberg)
• We’re introducing Verified Ratings and Reviews to Help You Make Your Viewing Decisions (Rotten Tomatoes)
• Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is coming to PC (Engadget)
• Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (The Verge)
• Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million (updated) (Engadget)

Apple World Wide Developers Conference 2019 Announcements

• New iPod touch delivers even greater performance (Apple)
• Apple previews iOS 13 (Apple)
• The new iPadOS powers unique experiences designed for iPad (Apple)
• Apple unveils powerful, all-new Mac Pro and groundbreaking Pro Display XDR (Apple)
• watchOS 6 advances health and fitness capabilities for Apple Watch (Apple)
• tvOS 13 powers the most personal cinematic experience ever (Apple)
• Apple WWDC 2019 Keynote Video (Apple)
• The Mac Pro Cheese Grater Is Back (And It Looks Powerful as Hell) (Gizmodo)