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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Detailed look at M1-based 13" MacBook Pro's performance shows huge gains that make Intel's chips look obsolete and battery life that far exceeds previous Macs — Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you're learning the ropes, understanding systems.
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On my Om, MacRumors, PCMag, Wired, Wccftech, TheStreet, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Boing Boing, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, and Apple World Today
Tweets: @floracatz, @johnkoetsier, @danfrakes, @panzer, @stroughtonsmith, @slightlylate, @ourielohayon, @slightlylate, and @nicolasmagand
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Deep dive on the M1 chip in the Mac Mini, which has a small fan: performance is “outstandingly good”, besting Intel's chips and on par with AMD's new Zen3 line — Last week, Apple made industry news by announcing new Mac products based upon the company's new Apple Silicon M1 SoC chip …
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Macworld, Appleosophy, and Gizmodo
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad — Apple's new MacBook Air is stunningly fast. It's raring to go the instant you open its lid. Want to browse the web?
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The Verge, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Fast Company, MacDailyNews, CNBC, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, CNN, iClarified, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @reckless, @jbenton, @panzer, @ampressman, @ow, @devindra, @stshank, and @joannastern
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review: great performance, display, and battery life but only two USB ports, RAM limited to 16GB, and a miserable webcam — Apple's M1 processor has many upsides, with few downsides — The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.
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Six Colors, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, MacStories, iPhone Hacks, Laptop Mag, and iClarified
Tweets: @steipete, @tomwarren, @mg, @dcseifert, @tapbot_paul, @reckless, @panzer, and @backlon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse — Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
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Twitter, New York Times, Engadget, NPR, The Hill, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, OneZero , Business Insider, Android Police, MakeUseOf, CNBC, Social Media Today, Variety, Fortune, Vox, CNET, The Verge, Neowin, and The Economic Times
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| CBS News: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their companies' actions related to the 2020 election — The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on their companies' actions around …
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| Evelyn Douek / Wired: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki should be at today's Senate hearing alongside Dorsey and Zuckerberg, as YouTube is also a major vector for disinformation — YouTube is a major vector for election and other disinformation. But its CEO isn't with Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey on Capitol Hill today.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces Pluton, its new project with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, to create x86 and ARM CPUs that integrate a dedicated security component — Microsoft teamed up with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to create a T2-like co-processor — The next Windows PC you buy could come …
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Tweets: @msftsecintel and @somospostpc
| CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members — - Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. — Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram formally debuts Guides, a feature letting creators share long-form content in a dedicated tab on their profile, and now lets you search with keywords — Earlier this year, Instagram launched a new feature called “Guides,” which allowed creators to share tips …
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The Verge, Instagram, Engadget, Social Media Today, Apple Terminal, Neowin, Forbes, and Adweek
Tweets: @danielhillmedia and @social_pip
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts — Updates to COVID overlay, takeout tracking, and public transport crowds — Google has announced a handful of improvements coming … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode, pinch-to-zoom support, up to 15% better page load performance, and memory usage reduced by up to 8% — Mozilla today launched Firefox 83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 83 includes an HTTPS-Only Mode, performance improvements, and a handful of new developer features.
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Mozilla Security Blog, Mozilla, CNET, gHacks Technology News, Neowin, ZDNet, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @glenngabe
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Bitcoin's market cap hits $329.91B, a new all-time high, breaking December 2017's record, after the price crossed $17K for the first time since January 2018 — The market capitalization of bitcoin has broken its previous all-time high record, according to market data.
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Bloomberg, Nic Carter, Decrypt, Cryptonews, CNBC, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, and Bloomberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Family Pairing parental controls for kids age 13 or older to include commenting, account privacy, and the ability to access the search bar — TikTok today announced it's expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood is asking banks to pitch for roles in an IPO, aiming to go public as soon as the first quarter of 2021 — Robinhood Markets, the trading platform that's proved popular with novice investors, has asked banks to pitch for roles in an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase — Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers …
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Huawei, Thurrott, Nikkei Asia, Financial Times, TechCrunch, coinspeaker.com, Android Headlines, IT Management, Forbes, TechPP, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @benwood, @sub8u, @sarhan_, and @charlesarthur
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has identified the problem that has caused an outage for Nest's mobile app and some devices for hours and is working on a fix — It's not just you. Nest is down again, with this November outage taking down the original mobile app as well as some Nest devices.
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CNET, Android Police, Current system status., and Pocketables
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Adobe releases Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS in beta, which users can run natively on Surface Pro X or Apple M1 Macs — Just in time for Apple's new M1-powered Macs — Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today.
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Adobe Photoshop Family, Engadget, MacRumors, Windows Central, TechSpot, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @zacbowden and @tomwarren
| Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
Tweets: @benthompson, @cliomiso, @asymmetricinfo, @mikeisaac, @bdomenech, @maxwellstrachan, @dandrezner, @biblioracle, @nbashaw, @sonnybunch, @alexkotch, @nicalexiac, @z_everson, @annehelen, @xokasia, @alicesperi, @kantrowitz, @lollardfish, @shortformernie, @benyt, @gbbranstetter, @elongreen, @benthompson, @lpbradley, @emmaroller, @erikhinton, @zacharylipez, @nathantankus, @can, @benthompson, and @benthompson
| Callum Booth / The Next Web: |
Security researcher demonstrates how Apple's apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs, an issue first brought to light in October — DON'T WORRY THOUGH, APPLE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CARES ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY — For all of Apple's talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak …
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Tweets: @patrickwardle and @davidalanmack
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube is introducing audio-only ads for users who listen to music or podcasts in the background and letting advertisers buy ads targeted by mood — YouTube claims to be the world's biggest jukebox — and now it wants to wring more ad dollars from the platform's music fans.| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, raises $270M led by Altimeter Capital at a $2.7B valuation, following $206M Series E in Sept. 2019 — Enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has raised $270 million in a new round of funding, likely its last fundraise … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenPhone, which offers businesses a single phone number that entire teams can access through its iOS, Android apps, raises $14M Series A led by Craft Ventures — OpenPhone, a company setting out to replace “antiquated” business phone systems, has raised $14 million in a series A round of funding led by David Sacks' Craft Ventures.
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TechCrunch and Crunchbase News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hover, whose tool uses 8 smartphone photos to make a 3D image of a home that can be used to asses repairs, raises $60M Series D at a $490M post-money valuation — The US property market has proven to be more resilient than you might have assumed it would be in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Beijing-based PingCAP, which develops the open-source NewSQL database TiDB, raises $270M Series D, bringing its total raised to $341.6M — PingCAP, the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. TiDB handles hybrid transactional …
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, DealStreetAsia, and PingCAP Blog
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Klaviyo, a marketing automation startup that customizes messaging for better results, raises $200M Series C led by Accel on a $4.15B valuation — Boston-based marketing automation firm Klaviyo wants to change the way marketers interact with data, giving them direct access to their data and their customers.
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