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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple unveils new MacBook Air with 13.3" Retina display, 50% narrower bezel, wedge design, Touch ID, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, 8th gen Intel CPU, for $1,199+ — Apple has brought the MacBook Air back to life today, announcing the first proper refresh of its super thin laptop line in three years during its October hardware event.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces an updated Mac mini in space gray with Intel 8th gen CPU with four to six cores, up to 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD, starting at $799 for 8GB RAM model — Now that the Air's got shiny new update, it's time for the other major neglected entry in the Mac line.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update with support for Group FaceTime for up to 32 people and adds more than 70 new emoji characters — Apple today released macOS Mojave 10.14.1, the first major update to the macOS Mojave operating system available on Apple's Mac lineup. macOS Mojave 10.14.1 comes … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air does not match any known Intel chip, though it is almost certainly an Amber Lake chip — This morning at a keynote in New York City, Apple took the wraps off of their latest notebook update, the 2018 MacBook Air. The entry-level member …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Apple says there are now 100M active Mac users, with 51% of buyers buying for the first time — Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company's “More in the Making” event in New York City that the company has 100 million active Mac users. He added that 51 percent of Mac buyers are …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple says MacBook Pros with AMD's Radeon Pro Vega graphics chips will be available to order Nov. 14, giving a 60% performance boost for graphics-related tasks — Although today's event was focused on Apple's new MacBook Air, Apple also quietly announced an update to its MacBook Pro lineup … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new MacBook Air: glossy screen is great, mostly on par with the MacBook Pro, but the third-gen butterfly keyboard remains a polarizing design — This is the MacBook most people should get — Apple has finally unveiled a long-awaited revamp of the MacBook Air …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple unveils new iPad Pros with no home button, thinner design, smaller bezels, A12X SoC, USB-C, Face ID, no 3.5mm jack; 12.9" model for $999+, 11" for $799+ — After months of rumors, Apple has today announced a completely redesigned iPad Pro with slimmed-down bezels, Face ID, a USB-C port …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple unveils new $130 Pencil, which can attach magnetically to iPad Pro, uses inductive charging, and can detect double tap gestures on the side of the Pencil — Apple Pencil 2. Apple originally introduced the Apple Pencil in September 2015 as an accessory for the first-generation iPad Pro — the company's first iPad stylus.
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| William Turton / VICE News: |
Reporters tried to buy fake Facebook ads on behalf of all 100 US senators and Facebook approved all of them, following other high profile fake ad approvals — One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is to require those paying for the ads to make a …
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Facebook reports Q3 revenue of $13.73B, up 33% YoY, DAUs of 1.49B on average, up 9% YoY, says mobile ad revenue represented ~92% of all ad revenue — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Rich DeVaul, a director at X, Alphabet's moonshot unit, left the company today following reports of sexual harassment, did not receive an exit package — Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the moonshot unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has left the company following reports of sexual harassment.
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| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
How Instagram has become a refuge for far-right figures who have avoided being banned from the site, including Alex Jones — Instagram hosts accounts from prominent right-wingers who have already been banned from Twitter and Facebook. — Alt-right social network Gab shuttered itself … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley — Waymo is the first company in California allowed to test robot cars on public roads with no human driver behind the steering wheel, it said Tuesday.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail for iOS will let users view all of their accounts in a single inbox, like Gmail for Android; feature rolling out over the next 15 days — Today, Google announced that all of the email accounts you manage in the Gmail app on iOS can be viewed in a single, universal inbox.
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| Asiff Hirji / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase raises $300M Series E led by Tiger Global Management at a post-money valuation of $8B+ — At Coinbase, we believe that cryptocurrencies and the technologies that power them represent a breakthrough in computer science that will change both the internet and the global financial system for the better.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries — Apple today released iOS 12.1 with support for the digital eSIM that will allow for dual-SIM functionality on the iPhone XS … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces Ride Pass, a $14.99+ per month service that locks in a flat fare for UberX and UberPool trips, available today in five US cities — For $14.99 a month, riders get flat, heavily discounted fares that can save them 15 percent on travel — Uber has a new plan to lock customers … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by Google Ventures — - Ethos saw a more than 400 percent jump in revenue, customers and applications in the last four months. — Ethos, a start-up that says it …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DOJ charges 10 Chinese nationals for conspiring to hack and steal IP and confidential data from US and European companies between Jan. 2010 and May 2015 — Department of Justice charges ten Chinese nationals for hacks on US and French aviation companies — The US Department of Justice … Sponsor Posts
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