The PS5 is finally revealed | Friday June 12th 2020
Episode description
Sony's taken the wraps off its next generation console the PS5, with it's "bold" new look. Social media memes have already started, comparing the machine to objects like a wi-fi router and a duck beak, but the game previews, including a new Spider-Man with Miles Morales, have gone down very well. Also, 170,000 Twitter accounts have been binned by the platform over claims they were spreading propaganda for China. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee, says the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the “gross inequality” of a world where half the population can’t get online. And geologists are trying to work out what’s caused a lake in India to suddenly turn pink.
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