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MacBook Pro 2018 teardown finds silicone layer under its quieter keys that is similar to Apple's patent application for protecting a keyboard from contaminants — BREAKING (July 13, 2018): Here's an inflammatory take for you: Apple's new quieter keyboard is actually a conspiracy to fix their keyboard reliability issues.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the top-of-the-line 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro: it's fast, keyboard is quieter with similar key travel as the 2017 model, and True Tone works well — It's a MacBook, alright — The new MacBook Pro keyboards are quieter. — We've had a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
PC shipments in Q2 grew 2.7% according to IDC, while Gartner estimates 1.4% increase; both firms agree this quarter's YoY growth was the best since Q1 2012 — Gartner and IDC agree — Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin transactions tied to real purchases and email addresses used by Russian spies in Mueller's indictments show the limits of the cryptocurrency's anonymity — The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary …
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| Sunil Paul / Recode: |
Uber will eventually dominate the scooter sector because it has the most users looking for a ride and the logistics expertise to get supply to the right spot — The Uber of scooters is going to be Uber. — This is a contributed post by Sunil Paul, who was co-founder of Sidecar.| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber employees have filed complaints over insensitive comments about women and minorities by COO Barney Harford; Harford says he will work with a coach — SAN FRANCISCO — Barney Harford was hired late last year to help fix problems at Uber, the ride-hailing company. Instead, he has created new ones.
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| Scott Thurm / Wired: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for government regulation of facial recognition, says Microsoft's ICE contract did not involve facial recognition — OVER THE PAST year, Silicon Valley has been grappling with the way it handles our data, our elections, and our speech. Now it's got a new concern: our faces.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook should quarantine Infowars and similar outlets instead of deleting their pages to avoid making people like Alex Jones into martyrs, prompting backlash — Quarantine instead, or it'll be “but her emails!” 2.0 — Alex Jones' Infowars is a fake news-peddler.
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The Next Web, Forbes, BGR, CNET, Silicon Republic, Axios, Engadget, and BBC. Tweets: @hondanhon. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Living with a low-end Android phone running “lite” apps is a big compromise from a usability standpoint but it is still an upgrade from using a feature phone — I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days. Nothing went smoothly. — Reporting From New Delhi
Tweets: @tomtaylor, @buzzfeednews, @pranavdixit, @pranavdixit, and @akm1410
| Rob Price / INSIDER: |
Many Facebook Groups with thousands of members openly share pirated movies, but Facebook says it does not remove the videos unless contacted by rights-holders — - Business Insider found numerous groups openly advertising illegal copies of the latest blockbuster films.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google's Phone app for Pixel and Nexus devices can now automatically filter calls that it detects to be spam and will send them directly to voicemail — Google's Phone app can now automatically filter out calls that it detects to be spam, sending them directly to voicemail.
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| Dominik Bosnjak / AndroidHeadlines.com: |
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