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Apple unveils new 16-inch MacBook Pro starting at $2,399 with new processors, better speakers, and a new keyboard, available for pre-order now — Apple has launched a new 16-inch MacBook Pro today, available for pre-order now and in stores later this week.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
16" MacBook Pro first hands-on: while the keyboard's “de-Jony-Ive-ification” is good, we shouldn't be celebrating the return of features we shouldn't have lost — IF YOU TRY SOMETIMES, YOU JUST MIGHT FIND, YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED — Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Following the introduction of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is discontinuing the 15-inch model, which was refreshed in May 2019 — Goodbye to the classic screen size — The arrival of Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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| Financial Times: |
Popular health websites in UK are sharing sensitive user data with dozens of companies including Google and Facebook along with data-brokers and adtech firms — Some of the UK's most popular health websites are sharing people's sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nike will stop selling its sneakers and apparel directly on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017 — - Move follows naming of ex-EBay CEO as Nike's next chief — Nike Inc. is breaking up with Amazon.com Inc. — The athletic brand will stop selling its sneakers …
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| Candy Cheng / Bloomberg: |
Source: DoorDash is raising $100M at a ~$13B valuation from T. Rowe Price Group and others — DoorDash Inc.'s $2 billion war chest is getting even bigger. The food delivery startup, backed by the likes of SoftBank Group Corp. and Sequoia Capital, is receiving a new cash infusion of $100 million … | ACLU: |
A district court rules the government's “suspicionless” searches of international travelers' phones and laptops at airports and US border violate 4th Amendment — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government's suspicionless searches …
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| Enoch Yiu / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's IPO application approved by the Hong Kong stock exchange; sources say shares to be priced on Nov. 20 with expected trading in the week of Nov. 25 — Alibaba aims to sell 500 million new shares, with every eight Hong Kong-listed shares equal to one ADS traded in the US in value …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly announce the launch of Bytecode Alliance, which aims to take WebAssembly and other related open standards beyond the browser — Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat and Fast today announced the launch of the Bytecode Alliance, a new open-source group that focuses on …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Intel has been slow to address information-leaking chip bugs, issuing an incomplete fix for “ZombieLoad” in May and another series of microcode patches today — Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to let users shop, donate to causes, send money to friends, more — Facebook Pay arrives just weeks after payment companies dropped out of Libra — Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Amid labor tensions Google says it fired a staffer for leaking employee info to media, put two on leave for sharing internal docs and tracking staffer calendars — - Employee terminated for leaking names, details to media — Rifts with management roiling company known for openness
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says the updated Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will ship in December, but does not provide an exact date — Apple has officially announced that its long-awaited Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available starting in December. — The base model Mac Pro starts at $5,999 … | Jessica Bruder / Wired: |
A look at a group of Somali immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota who stood up to Amazon over labor and civil rights without the clout of a traditional union — How a group of Somalis became leaders in the fight to change a tech behemoth. — It was 11 days before Christmas in 2018 …
Tweets: @wired, @adancabdulle, and @overdramatique
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016 — Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok.
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Politico, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Startup, Social Media Today, and Quartz
Tweets: @justinhendrix, @rmac18, @venkatananth, @markdistef, @venkatananth, @kantrowitz, @jonrussell, @jonrussell, and @mat
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Tencent Q3 earnings misses estimates with net income of $2.9B, down 13% YoY, from revenues of ~$13.7B, up 21% YoY — - Net income dives 13% as it takes charges on investments — The social media giant is fighting ByteDance and the downturn — Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted quarterly earnings …
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