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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts $999 6.1" iPhone 12 Pro and $1,099 6.7" iPhone 12 Pro Max with flat-edge design, 5G, LiDAR, three rear cameras with 5x zoom, and 128GB base storage — Apple today unveiled the new 6.1-inch iPhone 12 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max at its pre-recorded “Hi, Speed” digital event.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 6.1" OLED display and 460ppi, A14, thinner and lighter design, 5G, improved durability, and five colors options, starting at $799 — The right iPhone for most people gets a new design, OLED screen, and 5G — It might be happening a bit later than usual, but Apple has just announced the iPhone 12.
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| Apple: |
iPhone 12 pre-orders start on October 16, shipping on October 23, while iPhone 12 mini pre-orders begin November 6, shipping on November 13 — iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini introduce a beautiful new design packed with innovative features, including A14 Bionic, an advanced dual-camera system …
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| Apple: |
iPhone 12 Pro pre-orders start on October 16, shipping on October 23, while iPhone 12 Pro Max pre-orders begin November 6, shipping on November 13 — Best iPhone ever features the powerful A14 Bionic, all-new design with Ceramic Shield, pro camera system, LiDAR Scanner, and the biggest Super Retina XDR display ever on an iPhone
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple announces the $699 iPhone 12 mini with 5.4-inch OLED display, five colors, and similar specs to the iPhone 12 — The iPhone mini has arrived — Apple is announcing a new iPhone 12 mini today. It's the first time Apple has used the “mini” moniker on its iPhone line …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini cost $30 more than their starting advertised prices of $699 and $799, as those prices include “special offers” from AT&T, Verizon — In an incredibly sneaky move, it turns out the iPhone 12 does not actually cost $799 as advertised.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple announces MagSafe for iPhone 12, letting users magnetically attach chargers, wallets, and other accessories — The magnetic charging brand is back — Apple has revived its MagSafe charging brand with a twist: it's no longer for its MacBook line but instead for the new iPhone 12 line.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple debuts HomePod mini with spherical design, S5 chip, fabric mesh exterior, black and white options, a small screen on top; pre-orders start Nov. 6 from $99 — Apple finally offers an entry-level HomePod — Apple has announced a new version of its HomePod smart speaker …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger gets a visual update, custom reactions, chat themes, and more, as cross-app communication between Instagram and FB rolls out to North America — Facebook Messenger is getting a visual update and a number of new features, including support for chat themes, custom reactions, and soon, selfie stickers and vanish mode.
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| CNBC: |
Facebook announces a global policy banning anti-vaccination ads but will allow ads that advocate for legislation around vaccination policies — - Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Q3 2020: Gartner says PC shipments in the US totaled 16.57M, up 11.4% YoY, while IDC finds PC shipments to be 81.3M units worldwide, up 14.6% YoY — According to Gartner, PC shipments in the US increased 11.4% in the third quarter of 2020 — the strongest growth in the US in a decade.| Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: |
Netflix has stopped offering its 30-day free trial across all markets — It's either you're all in or you're all out with Netflix as the streaming giant has removed their free trial. — As first spotted by Phil Swann, the streamer is no longer giving users a chance to try the service for free.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress debuts a tool that can take blog posts, including accompanying images and videos, and post them as Twitter threads automatically — Earlier this year, WordPress .com introduced an easier way to post your Twitter threads, also known as tweetstorms, to your blog with the introduction of “unroll” option for Twitter embeds.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces $49 Beats Flex earbuds with USB-C, longer battery life, and Apple's W1 chip, replacing the BeatsX, available from October 21 — BeatsX wireless headphones landed three years ago as the first Beats product to feature Apple's W1 chip and Lightning charging port like the original AirPods.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Laptop Go review: solid design, fast, excellent keyboard and trackpad, but very low screen resolution, 8GB RAM limit, and max 256GB storage — It's hard not to love the Surface Laptop Go at first sight. Microsoft took the basic style of its Laptop line, shrunk it down, and created an adorable sibling with a 12.4-inch screen.
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The Verge, Windows Central, Windows Central, TechRadar, ZDNet, Neowin, Tom's Hardware, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, and CNET. Tweets: @devindra
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sources detail how Google, under intense scrutiny, has limited discussion of antitrust issues among employees, executives, and potential recruits — A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public — The T2 exploit team who found a way to take over the security chip in modern Macs has demonstrated a way to do so without user intervention …
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The T2 Development Blog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, YouTube, and YouTube
Tweets: @mjg59, @aurynn, and @benlovejoy
| Michael Scherer / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donate $100M to election administrators, despite pushback from a conservative legal group, following a previous gift of $300M — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced Tuesday an additional $100 million in donations …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides — Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy.
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