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MacBook Pro hands-on: Touch Bar is well-integrated into apps like Mail and Photos, and with a matte finish it's not too bright to be distracting — I'm sold on the Touch Bar — The new MacBook Pro is here — literally available for preorder today — and I've just tried it.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
New MacBooks lose most ports including MagSafe, HDMI, SD, Thunderbolt 2, old USB; users will need to buy dongles to connect devices to new USB-C ports — Apple just introduced a shiny, super thin new MacBook Pro. But for what was birthed, a lot of widely-held standards had to die.
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New 13" Macbook Pro with Touch Bar, dual-core i5 starts at $1.8K; 15" model with Touch Bar, quad-core i7, Radeon Pro 450 starts at $2.4K; both ship in 2-3 weeks — Revolutionary Touch Bar, Breakthrough Performance in Apple's Thinnest & Lightest Pro Design Ever| CNET: |
Apple's Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, and Jony Ive on the role of Macs moving forward, keeping iOS and macOS distinct from one another, Touch Bar, more — APPLE UPDATES ITS TOP-OF-THE-LINE LAPTOP, THE MACBOOK PRO. In exclusive interviews, Apple executives explain why it was over four years …
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| Henry T. Casey / Laptop Mag: |
MacBook Pro vs Surface Book: similar performance, but higher resolution and longer battery life for Surface Book, primary difference is in how touch is used — This week Apple and Microsoft revealed their latest visions for notebook computing, giving users a real choice for how they interact with their devices.
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| Alan Yuhas / Guardian: |
“Celebgate” hacker Ryan Collins sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal hacking charges and admitting to a two-year phishing scam — Ryan Collins ran a two-year phishing scam to gain the passwords of more than 100 people, including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Avril Lavigne| Troy Hunt: |
Health data of 550K Australian blood donors made public in Red Cross data breach, believed to be Australia's largest ever leak of personal data — I don't give blood as much as I should. My wife has a much better track record than me, regularly donating not just blood but plasma and platelets as well.| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Apple raises the prices of most Macs in UK, including older unchanged models, by £100 to £500, as the pound weakens after Brexit — New laptops significantly more expensive and already-existing machines have prices raised by hundreds of pounds as Apple adjusts for new US dollar-pound sterling rate
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
PlayStation Vue now available on Android TV; support for Macs and Windows PCs coming soon — Sony's TV streaming service is launching today on Android TV. — With today's launch, PlayStation Vue will be available on all recent Android TV devices, including dedicated streaming boxes and TVs that have it built in.| Reuters: |
Sources: CenturyLink and Level 3 in advanced talks to merge in deal that could value post-merger company at $50B — CenturyLink Inc (CTL.N) and Level 3 Communications (LVLT.N) are in advanced talks to merge, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would create …
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet reports Q3 2016 revenue of $22.4B, up 20% YoY, as cost-per-click declines 11% YoY — Alphabet's strategy of trying to stuff the difference between declining mobile advertising value with additional clicks appears to still be paying off as the company once again showed Wall Street …
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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 … | Charles Bovaird / CoinDesk: |
Zcash, a cryptocurrency based on Zerocash protocol that promises anonymous transactions using zero-knowledge proofs, launches October 28 — “Deafening.” — That's how market analyst Arthur Hayes describes the enthusiasm ahead of the upcoming launch of a new digital currency called Zcash - and he's not alone.
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Vine lost its lead, stars, and audience to Snapchat and Instagram after its 2014 peak as Twitter did little to help it evolve — Jerome Jarre hasn't posted on Vine in more than a year. The 26-year-old goofy Frenchman once ruled the six-second looping video platform, where he drew in millions …
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| Christine Wang / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 2016 revenue of $32.71B, meeting expectations, but $0.52 EPS is below $0.78 expected; stock drops 5% after hours — Amazon posted third-quarter earnings per share of 52 cents on revenue of $32.71 billion on Thursday. — Analysts expected the online retail giant …
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