Welcome back to the Neowin Podcast, the show where Rich Woods and João Carrasqueira talk about all the big news from the past week. After a short break, we"re back with episode 13 of the show to talk about more tech news, and we"re moving to a bi-weekly release schedule.
This week, Microsoft finally launched the Beta channel for the Edge Insider program, after over four months of testing in the Canary and Dev channels. Speaking of which, the Canary channel now supports the Collections feature announced back at Build. Meanwhile, Google is done naming Android versions after desserts and revealed Android 10. On the hardware side of things, Intel has launched new 10th generation processors based on the 14nm architecture, and OEMs have already announced new devices with the new CPUs.
Before we get into the episode, here"s a list of timestamps for every topic we talked about this week. At the start of the episode, we start by talking about Rich"s trip to China to visit Huawei"s new campus. Make sure to read up on everything that came from that trip. Without further ado, here are the news discussed on this week"s episode:
- 7:05 - Chromium-based Edge is now available in the Beta channel
- 15:50 - Collections is now available in Edge Canary, and more features are coming
- 20:20 - Intel announces new 14nm Comet Lake processors
- 26:15 - Google drops dessert codenames for Android and introduces new brand look
- 30:55 - Even with more games coming, is Google Stadia bound for success?
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Let us know what you think of this episode in the comments, and stay tuned for the next one with more exciting news!