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The Inside Story of Apple's New iMacs — Retina displays, rechargeable input devices, a force touch trackpad, and more power. Not bad for a truck. — Early this year, the top-secret laboratory where Apple designs its Macintosh accessories was bedeviled by a crisis on tiny feet.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
New 21.5-inch Apple iMac announced with 4K display for $1,499 — Apple's smaller iMac is finally going 4K. The 21.5-inch iMac is being updated today with a faster processor, faster RAM, and improved graphics. But the most compelling update is the new option of a 4K display.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Same design, new insides, better screen: 21.5-inch 4K Retina iMac reviewed — Fusion Drives desperately need to be standard, but otherwise this is a nice Mac. — The new 4K iMac hooked up to an external 4K display. … It's been over three years since the very first Mac went Retina …
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Apple launches larger Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch for $129, Magic Mouse 2 for $79, and Magic Keyboard for $99 — Apple's standalone keyboard, trackpad, and mouse just got a lot better — Apple is updating its standalone keyboard, trackpad, and mouse today in ways that make them much better than they used to be.
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Twitter is laying off 336 employees, or about 8% of its global workforce — Twitter Will Cut More Than 300 Employees, 8 Percent of Staff — Justin Sullivan / Getty Images — Twitter plans to lay off as much as 336 people, or 8 percent of its staff, as part of an internal restructuring plan …
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See also Mediagazer| David Rowan / Wired.co.uk: |
Interview with Facebook's David Marcus on the future of Messenger, and why the company considers it the app for everything — Facebook Messenger: inside Zuckerberg's app for everything — This article was first published in the November 2015 issue of WIRED magazine.
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In-house chip design, integration are Apple's key platform advantages that auto makers won't be able to match, just as iPhone's smartphone competitors couldn't — On Apple's Insurmountable Platform Advantage — Since the iPhone 6s was released last month anyone who has used the device says it feels like magic.
| Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: |
Snapchat ends production of original content for Snap Channel, will rely solely on Discover content partners, 15-member team laid off or reassigned — Snapchat To Shut Down Snap Channel, Laying Off Team, Changing Content Plans — Underscoring the complicated relationship between … | Daniel Csaki / MobiPicker: |
Sources: Pepsi P1 smartphone to have 5.5-inch screen, 1.7 GHZ CPU, 16GB storage, will be released Oct. 20 for about $200 in China — Pepsi P1 Smartphone Leaked - Specs, Price, Release Date — Looks like our guesses on PepsiCo China's upcoming smartphone were right.| Subrat Patnaik / Reuters: |
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Deadspin suspended from Twitter briefly after receiving takedown notices for GIFs from NFL; @SBNationGIF remains suspended for posting college football GIFs — Twitter Suspends Deadspin, SBNation Accounts for Violating Copyrights — Twitter is cracking down on digital media properties …
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See also Mediagazer| Katherine Noyes / Computerworld: |
By going private, Dell-EMC gains long-term operating advantages against publicly traded rivals, who have to worry about stock market and quarterly results — As a private firm, Dell-EMC will have freedom HP can only dream of — Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC will give it access … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
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Fixed, The App That Fixes Your Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked In San Francisco, Oakland & L.A. — Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users' behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line Adds End-To-End Encryption To Its Mobile Messaging App — Japan-based Line is finally bringing end-to-end encryption to its mobile messaging service, which is used by over 211 million people worldwide each month. — The company said today that a new security feature, dubbed ‘Letter Sealing’ …
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