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MacBook Pro 2018 teardown finds silicone layer under its quieter keys that is similar to Apple's patent application for protecting a keyboard from contaminants — BREAKING (July 13, 2018): Here's an inflammatory take for you: Apple's new quieter keyboard is actually a conspiracy to fix their keyboard reliability issues.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the top-of-the-line 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro: it's fast, keyboard is quieter with similar key travel as the 2017 model, and True Tone works well — It's a MacBook, alright — The new MacBook Pro keyboards are quieter. — We've had a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
True Tone feature in 2018 MacBook Pro models extends to LG UltraFine and Apple Thunderbolt Displays, according to Apple support document published today — When using certain external monitors with the new 2018 MacBook Pro models, the built-in True Tone feature that matches the color …
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking DNC, Clinton campaign, and others and releasing their emails during 2016 election — Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a new indictment charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin transactions tied to real purchases and email addresses used by Russian spies in Mueller's indictments show the limits of the cryptocurrency's anonymity — The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary … | Scott Thurm / Wired: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for government regulation of facial recognition, says Microsoft's ICE contract did not involve facial recognition — OVER THE PAST year, Silicon Valley has been grappling with the way it handles our data, our elections, and our speech. Now it's got a new concern: our faces.
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Tweets: @drewharwell, @nytimes, @drewharwell, @russellbrandom, @bradsmi, @drewharwell, and @verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
PC shipments in Q2 grew 2.7% according to IDC, while Gartner estimates 1.4% increase; both firms agree this quarter's YoY growth was the best since Q1 2012 — Gartner and IDC agree — Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon Web Services is considering selling its own networking switches to business customers, challenging companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Arista — Amazon Web Services already dominates the market for cloud services. Now, it is eyeing a part of the cloud business it doesn't already control …
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Bloomberg, Zero Hedge, MarketWatch, CRN, Light Reading, Mercury News, GeekWire, Business Insider, Investor's Business Daily, and CNBC
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Adobe plans to unveil the full version of Photoshop for iPad at its annual MAX creative conference in October and release it in 2019 — - Users in media, entertainment want to edit work ‘on the fly’ — Long-term effort will spread to other Adobe programs later
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InvestorPlace, iDrop News, Pocketnow, Redmond Pie, The Verge, Digital Trends, The Phoblographer, The Mac Observer, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Macworld, Patently Apple, MSPoweruser, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, Fortune, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, iLounge, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iMore, The Tech Report, 512 Pixels, iPhone Hacks, Boing Boing, MacStories, Thurrott.com, Inquirer, VentureBeat, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @stevesi, @heyjenbartel, @stevesi, @dcseifert, @reckless, @vladsavov, @tomwarren, @briantong, @markgurman, @ohmdee, @tomwarren, and @stroughtonsmith
| Dominik Bosnjak / AndroidHeadlines.com: |
Report: Huawei has an internal initiative to add AI to everything from consumer electronics to telecom equipment, including data center chips for China — Huawei is seeking to embrace artificial intelligence technologies across a wide variety of product categories through Project Da Vinci … | Rob Price / INSIDER: |
Many Facebook Groups with thousands of members openly share pirated movies, but Facebook says it does not remove the videos unless contacted by rights-holders — - Business Insider found numerous groups openly advertising illegal copies of the latest blockbuster films.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google's Phone app for Pixel and Nexus devices can now automatically filter calls that it detects to be spam and will send them directly to voicemail — Google's Phone app can now automatically filter out calls that it detects to be spam, sending them directly to voicemail.Sponsor Posts
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