Engadget Podcast: Surface Pro 12-inch and a chat with (Google) X’s Astro Teller

This week we're diving into the new 12-inch Surface Pro, which, alongside the 13-inch Surface Laptop, is a foray into smaller Surface hardware. You can thank Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Plus chips for that. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonifacic explore the compromises Microsoft had to make for these devices, and they dive into the rumors around Half Life 3 and the leaked photos of Microsoft and ASUS's potential Xbox handheld. Also, Devindra chats with the head of Google's X division, Astro Teller, about the past and future of the "moonshot factory."

  • Surface Pro 12-inch review: less weight, less power? – 2:04

  • ASUS’ Xbox handheld photos leak in FCC filing – 21:39

  • OpenAI restructures business, announces plan for hostile takeover-proof public benefit corp – 26:14

  • The EPA announces plans to shut down the Energy Star Program – 31:16

  • Telemessage, a Signal clone favored by Trump administration officials has been hacked – 34:44

  • Samsung subsidiary buys Masimo and now it owns all the fancy speakers – 36:35

  • Half-Life 3 is fully formed and playable?! – 40:59

  • Around Engadget – 49:53

  • Pop culture picks – 51:42

Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Igor Bonifacic
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/engadget-podcast-surface-pro-12-inch-and-a-chat-with-google-xs-astro-teller-113048410.html?src=rss https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/engadget-podcast-surface-pro-12-inch-and-a-chat-with-google-xs-astro-teller-113048410.html?src=rss

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