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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple does not plan to release an Apple silicon version of the 27-inch iMac, encouraging buyers to consider a Mac Studio or Mac mini and Studio Display — Apple will not be making an Apple Silicon version of the 27-inch iMac to replace the Intel-equipped model that it discontinued in 2022.
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| Joe Osborne / PCMag: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI enter a multi-year partnership to create multi-platform AI-powered game development tools for story and character creation — Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI have partnered to create AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2023) review: M3 offers great performance and long battery, a worthy entry-level Pro, but 8GB of RAM is silly and loses a Thunderbolt port — The long-awaited replacement for the 13-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it's exactly as expected. But the line between Air and Pro users is blurrier than ever.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: M3 Max surpasses the M1 Ultra, nice design, and ProMotion display, but RAM and SSD upgrades are pricey and the notch remains — A solid generational upgrade for a laptop that wouldn't be possible with Intel. — The next year or two will be a turning point … | Bloomberg: |
Some visitors to Yuga Labs' ApeFest event in Hong Kong report experiencing eye burn and blame the lighting; the Bored Ape creator acknowledges the situation — - Bored Ape digital collectibles among most popular in crypto — Yuga Labs organized ApeFest event in Hong Kong last week
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Epic's case against Google Play's app payment restrictions goes to trial in San Francisco, after Google settled with Match on October 31 ahead of a trial — The maker of Fortnite is suing the search giant as it is defending a DoJ antitrust case — The long-running attempt by Epic Games …
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| OpenAI on YouTube: |
Keynote livestream of OpenAI DevDay — Join us for the opening keynote from OpenAI DevDay — OpenAI's first developer conference. We're gathering developers from around the world for an in-person day of programming to learn about the latest AI advancements and explore what lies ahead.
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / Wall Street Journal: |
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd plans to step down nearly a decade after founding the dating app, to be succeeded by Slack CEO Lidiane Jones on January 2, 2024 — The dating-app founder who marketed her product toward women will be replaced by Lidiane Jones, the Slack chief executive
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| Eric Zeman / PCMag: |
MediaTek announces its Dimensity 9300 chip, which uses TSMC's third gen 4nm process, arriving in high-end Android smartphones and tablets before the end of 2023 — MediaTek claims its new flagship mobile processor, the Dimensity 9300, will provide the performance, AI power … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks confirms acquiring Tel Aviv-based Talon Cyber Security, which offers enterprise browsers for distributed workforces, sources say for $625M — Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired Talon Cyber Security … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Duke University study: active-duty US service members' personal data is cheap, easy to buy, and widely advertised by brokers; nearly 50K people's data was ~$10K — Duke University researchers were able to purchase information about thousands of U.S. military personnel often for as little as 12 cents per person.
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| Erica Pandey / Axios: |
A survey of 978 US students: 79% don't use any dating apps even as infrequently as once per month; 12% use Tinder at least monthly, the most of any dating app — Young people aren't on dating apps. — That's according to a new Axios/Generation Lab survey of college and graduate students nationwide.
More: Gizmodo and The Hill
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