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Apple says its new M1-equipped Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro are available to order today, arriving as early as next week — A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple's breakthrough chip for the Mac — Cupertino, California — On a momentous day for the Mac …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts M1-powered 13.3" MacBook Air without a fan, claims up to 3.5x better CPU performance and up to 18 hour video playback, starting at $999 — Apple today introduced a new MacBook Air as its first Mac with a custom Apple Silicon processor known as the M1 chip.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M1, giving 3x faster CPU and 6x faster GPU, up to 16GB RAM and 2TB storage, starting at $699 — Apple today announced a new Mac mini featuring the Apple M1 chip. Apple said the new chip enables up to 3x faster CPU performance, and up to 6x better graphics …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts 13.3" MacBook Pro with M1, up to 2.8x faster CPU, up to 5x faster GPU, up to 11x faster ML, up to 20 hours battery, and up to 16GB RAM, from $1,299 — Apple today unveiled a new 13-inch MacBook Pro featuring the Apple M1 chip, replacing the previous Intel x86 models.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Apple says macOS Big Sur will be available on November 12 — Featuring big design changes and new app features — Apple says it'll release macOS 11.0, dubbed Big Sur, on November 12th. The company first announced the new OS at its developer's conference in June and released it as a public beta in August.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple announces M1, the first Apple silicon SoC for Macs, with 5nm process, 16B transistors, 8-core CPU, up to 8-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine — A big boost over its Intel-based machines — Apple has introduced the new M1 chip that will power its new generation of Arm-based Macs.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's new MacBook Air and Pro still have 720p webcams but they're updated with better noise reduction, dynamic range, and ML-based face detection — Apple has unveiled its first Macs with custom M1 chips. For its notebooks, those include the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over its dual role as a marketplace for third-party vendors and a competitor selling its own goods — Vestager says group uses non-public data it gathers on sales on its website to inform its own-label products — The EU has hit Amazon …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Spotify to buy Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts, for $235M — - Spotify has been on a podcast acquisition tear in the past couple years, striking deals for shows from those including Joe Rogan …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Isovalent emerges from stealth to debut Cilium, its cloud-native networking and security service, after raising $29M Series A round led by a16z and Google — Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Remote, which simplifies hiring remote workers, raises $35M Series A led by Index Ventures, bringing its total raised to $46M — Remote working has become the norm in many offices around the world this year, as organizations do what they can to help contain the rapid transmission of Covid-19 … | South China Morning Post: |
China drafts new antitrust guideline to rein in tech giants; Meituan's stock drops 10%+, JD.com is down 5%+, and Alibaba is down 8%+ — Draft guideline ‘targeting tech giants’ in e-commerce, online food delivery and ride hailing, Atta Capital's Alan Li says Tech giants plunge broadly … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Walmart and Cruise partner to launch pilot to deliver orders from a Scottsdale, Arizona store using self-driving cars, scheduled to begin in 2021 — GM-backed autonomous vehicles startup Cruise today announced a partnership with Walmart that'll see Cruise's cars deliver orders from a Scottsdale, Arizona store to customers' homes.
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| Derek Robertson / The Guardian: |
How AI-powered tools like OpenAI's Jukebox are being used to create deepfake music, which could lead to a host of ethical and intellectual property issues — 'It's Christmas time! It's hot tub time!" sings Frank Sinatra. At least, it sounds like him. With an easy swing, cheery bonhomie …
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| New York Times: |
US officials and experts say a crippling cyberattack on election infrastructure did not come to pass due to the pre-emptive steps taken by the US Cyber Command — The 2020 election was the biggest test yet of a new approach of pre-emptive action against adversaries trying to hack election infrastructure …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nigerian mobile-first challenger bank Kuda raises $10M, the biggest seed round ever raised in Africa, led by Target Global — The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services …
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| Levi Sumagaysay / MarketWatch: |
Lyft reports Q3 revenue of $499.7M vs. estimates of $486.6M, net loss of $460M, nearly flat YoY, active riders grew 44% QoQ to 12.5M but are still down 44% YoY — Although the coronavirus pandemic continued to be a problem for Lyft Inc., its third-quarter results beat analysts' expectations.| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two Interactive agrees to acquire British game developer Codemasters for $956M in cash and stock, after disclosing negotiations last week — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind popular video games including Grand Theft Auto and NBA 2K, agreed to buy …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook removed seven pages tied to Steve Bannon, with a total of over 2.45M followers, for pushing misinformation about voter fraud and election results — The pages, which promoted the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort and other misleading messages related to the election, were removed over the weekend …
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