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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Detailed look at M1-based 13" MacBook Pro's performance shows huge gains over Intel chips as well as battery life that far exceeds previous Macs — Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you're learning the ropes, understanding systems.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Deep dive on the fan-cooled M1 chip in the Mac mini: performance is “outstandingly good”, besting Intel's chips and on par with AMD's new Zen 3 line — Last week, Apple made industry news by announcing new Mac products based upon the company's new Apple Silicon M1 SoC chip …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad — Apple's new MacBook Air is stunningly fast. It's raring to go the instant you open its lid. Want to browse the web?
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review: great performance, display, and battery life but only two USB ports, RAM limited to 16GB, and a miserable webcam — Apple's M1 processor has many upsides, with few downsides — The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.
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| CBS News: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their companies' actions related to the 2020 election — The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on their companies' actions around …
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| Evelyn Douek / Wired: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki should have been at Tuesday's Senate hearing alongside Dorsey and Zuckerberg, given YouTube is also a major vector for disinformation — YouTube is a major vector for election and other disinformation. But its CEO isn't with Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey on Capitol Hill today.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse — Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces Pluton, its new project with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, to create x86 and ARM CPUs that integrate a dedicated security component — Microsoft teamed up with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to create a T2-like co-processor — The next Windows PC you buy could come …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram formally debuts Guides, a feature letting creators share long-form content in a dedicated tab on their profile, and now lets you search with keywords — Earlier this year, Instagram launched a new feature called “Guides,” which allowed creators to share tips …
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Tweets: @danielhillmedia and @social_pip
| CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members — - Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. — Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts — Updates to COVID overlay, takeout tracking, and public transport crowds — Google has announced a handful of improvements coming … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood is asking banks to pitch for roles in an IPO, aiming to go public as soon as the first quarter of 2021 — Robinhood Markets, the trading platform that's proved popular with novice investors, has asked banks to pitch for roles in an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode, pinch-to-zoom support, up to 15% better page load performance, and memory usage reduced by up to 8% — Mozilla today launched Firefox 83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 83 includes an HTTPS-Only Mode, performance improvements, and a handful of new developer features.
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Tweets: @fluffypony, @letsencrypt, and @glenngabe
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Bitcoin's market cap hits $329.91B, a new all-time high, breaking December 2017's record, after the price crossed $17K for the first time since January 2018 — The market capitalization of bitcoin has broken its previous all-time high record, according to market data.
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Bloomberg, Nic Carter, Bitcoin Magazine, Decrypt, and CNBC
Tweets: @markets, @cuysheffield, @unchainedcap, @nic__carter, @lopp, @ofnumbers, and @macroscope17. Thanks:@saniyamore
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Family Pairing parental controls for kids age 13 or older to include commenting, account privacy, and the ability to access the search bar — TikTok today announced it's expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has resolved the issue that caused an outage for Nest's mobile app and some devices for hours — It's not just you. Nest is down again, with this November outage taking down the original mobile app as well as some Nest devices. — This latest Nest outage seems …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Talkspace is working with an adviser on a possible sale; a deal would value the company at about $1B according to a source — - Online therapy app has held discussions with potential suitors — Discussions come as pandemic accelerates telemedicine growth| Paris Martineau / The Information: |
Sources: rental startup Domio, which had raised $50M in debt and a $50M Series B in 2019, plans to shut down after failing to raise more funds — Domio, a short-term rental startup founded in 2016, plans to shut down and is looking to sell its assets, according to two investors in the company and documents viewed by The Information.
Tweets: @nickwingfield, @parismartineau, @parismartineau, and @jessicalessin
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Adobe releases ARM versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS in beta, which users can run natively on Surface Pro X or Apple M1 Macs — Just in time for Apple's new M1-powered Macs — Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today.
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Adobe Photoshop Family, Digital Photography Review, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, TechSpot, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @zacbowden and @tomwarren
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, raises $270M led by Altimeter Capital at a $2.7B valuation, following $206M Series E in Sept. 2019 — Enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has raised $270 million in a new round of funding, likely its last fundraise … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says the company has $80B cash on hand, after announcing extensive stock buyback plans earlier this year — - Masayoshi Son praised Adam Neumann the founder of WeWork — CEO declined to comment on plans to take SoftBank private
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