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The Vergecast

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The Hyper Loop of Robots

Google has just resorted to the strategy of just like leaking its own things to death. The tablet in particular seems like it would be a very easy one for Google to just sort of nope out of, except that it already announced it's doing it and they can't bail again. I'm kind of excited about the tablet. It's been a while since they made a tablet and that one was bad. Maybe this one could be good. So I want it to succeed just because it seems like a normal place for a tablet to exist, but it has to actually not suck. And that's been historically very, very difficult for all the different parts of Google to do.

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