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MacBook Pro is a hybrid system where modified watchOS on ARM-based T1 securely runs Touch Bar, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and more, while Intel CPU handles macOS — When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since … | Owen Williams / Charged Tech: |
Apple's latest Macbook Pros show the company is turning its back on its core customers — Last night's Apple event was bizarre—I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling people not to buy a Mac, because everything was so outdated.
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AMD details the specs of Radeon Pro 450, 455, and 460 graphics cards used in 15" MacBook Pro — Spoiler: Don't expect to do much gaming on your shiny new MacBook Pro. — Following the announcement of the new Apple MacBook Pro, AMD has launched the Radeon Pro 400 series of power-efficient graphics cards for laptops.
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress for its mobile app, skirting GPL requirements of attribution and public release of code — Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things — phones, gadgets, apps. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla announces Project Quantum, an effort to develop a faster browser engine that will power Firefox beginning in 2017 — Mozilla hopes to speed up its browser so much by the end of 2017 that the today's complex, interactive websites will feel completely different.
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Comma.ai cancels Comma One after receiving NHTSA letter asking for detailed information about the $1K self-driving kit — Renowned iPhone hacker turned entrepreneur George Hotz (aka geohot) has cancelled his autonomous driving startup's first official product, the Comma One aftermarket add …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Vine struggled to monetize and compete with Instagram and Snapchat amid executive churn, while failing to find strategic benefits for Twitter — Closing the loop — The thing about Vine becoming the internet's premiere tool for making short-form videos is that it happened almost completely by accident.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
ProPublica's report on Facebook's “ethnic affinity” ad targeting explored the potential for abuse, but was misleading and failed to show actual abuse — “Ethnic Affinity” targeting has been offered for nearly two years, has real benefits and is legal for many types of ads.
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UK employment tribunal rules Uber drivers are workers and are entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks, and National Living Wage — Uber drivers in the UK have won an employment tribunal case which ruled they are workers rather than self-employed. — The decision means drivers … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
IBM execs say years of huge investments in Watson, which employs 10K people, are yielding profitable opportunities in markets like healthcare and manufacturing — Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence? — IBM is betting its future that the answer is yes.| Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept: |
Sources shed light on how Dubai-based surveillance firm DarkMatter is helping the UAE government track, locate, and hack its citizens — n July, Simone Margaritelli, an Italian security researcher, boarded a Boeing 777 in Rome headed for Dubai, a city now billing itself as a tech startup hub.
Tweets: @timothys, @gregghoush, @theintercept, @benheise and @deftechpat
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