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Apple MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch review: incredible performance with very long battery life and beautiful displays but expensive with absurd RAM pricing — Apple's new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade — Let's start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's VP of Mac and iPad Product Marketing Tom Boger says Touch ID is more convenient than Face ID on a laptop since users' hands are already on the keyboard — Full-size ports, real function keys and other retro features, plus cutting-edge M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, make the new MacBook Pro models the laptops to beat
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage — If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: Zuckerberg agreed to a name change after years of staff complaints and research showing a “brand tax” on apps with the “from Facebook” label — - Employees have used the term “brand tax” to refer to the negative impact of Facebook on its other brands.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that has helped improve Xbox communities for the past few years — The deal will help Microsoft's consumer services push — Microsoft has acquired Two Hat, a content moderation provider that's helped keep harmful content off Xbox.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta acquires Within, the company behind VR fitness game Supernatural; Within will continue working on the game and help Meta improve future VR hardware — The company already owns Beat Saber — Meta has announced that the studio behind VR workout game Supernatural will be joining the company …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Microsoft had a nearly $2.49T market cap at close on Friday, passing Apple's $2.46T market cap to become the world's most valuable public company — - Microsoft passed Apple in market cap on Friday, making it the world's most valuable public company. — The move comes after Apple …
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| New York Times: |
A look at a16z's crypto lobbying and draft legislation it is circulating in DC, which some worry may create regulatory loopholes for its portfolio companies — The Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose founders played big roles in the development of the internet …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Two employees who openly criticized Netflix's support of Dave Chappelle's comedy special file charges with the NLRB, claiming retaliation — B. Pagels-Minor and Terra Field say the company retaliated against them for engaging in protected activity — Two Netflix employees at the heart … | Yifan Wang / Wall Street Journal: |
Under pressure from China, Alibaba's market value has declined from a peak of $850B in October 2020 to ~$460B today; filings show T. Rowe and others cut stakes — They may have to wait a while for the former market darling to regain its glory — SINGAPORE—Investors are betting the worst … | Wall Street Journal: |
Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Chris Hughes, Clay Shirky, and others on how to reform social media platforms and limit their harm — Revelations about Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have highlighted the problems posed by the biggest social media sites. What would it take to reform the platforms and limit their harm?
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google and Jio debut $87 JioPhone Next with a 5.45-inch HD+ display and Qualcomm's quad-core QM-215 chipset, available November 4 in India — Google and Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to US and Canada users — Twitter is rolling out the ability for all iOS users globally to Super Follow select creators. The option was previously only available to users in the U.S. and Canada.| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
GAO sustains a Microsoft protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS — NSA awarded the contract to Amazon Web Services in July. — The Government Accountability Office Friday sustained Microsoft's protest … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Greg Lavender on the IBM partnership, how new transistor architectures could help outpace Moore's Law, and more — We had a chance to sit down with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger for a roundtable Q and A session shortly after his opening keynote at the company's InnovatiON event.Sponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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