Month: January 2023

Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, featuring M2 and M2 Max, support for Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, featuring M2 and M2 Max, support for Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499  —  Apple today announced the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with faster M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, up to 96GB of RAM

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Apple unveils the M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, offering 20% more transistors than M1 Pro and double the M2, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple unveils the M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, offering 20% more transistors than M1 Pro and double the M2, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more  —  Apple today unveiled the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips alongside refreshed MacBook Pro and Mac mini models.

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Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro, improved graphics performance, support for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro, improved graphics performance, support for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599  —  Apple today launched the new Mac mini lineup, available with M2 and M2 Pro chips inside.  The M2 Mac mini starts at a new lower

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Robinhood plans to launch Sherwood Media, an independent brand led by Joshua Topolsky, which will be the home of its popular Snacks newsletter (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Robinhood plans to launch Sherwood Media, an independent brand led by Joshua Topolsky, which will be the home of its popular Snacks newsletter  —  Retail trading platform Robinhood is launching an independent media brand called Sherwood that will be led by veteran tech editor and media entrepreneur Joshua Topolsky.

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Hinge tests a $50-$60 per month premium tier, rolling out globally in Q1, for “highly motivated daters”, a significant rise over the current $35 per month (Michael Tobin/Bloomberg)

Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: Hinge tests a $50-$60 per month premium tier, rolling out globally in Q1, for “highly motivated daters”, a significant rise over the current $35 per month  —  Match Group Inc.’s dating app Hinge is rolling out a new subscription tier that could cost as much as $60 a month …

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Google says the FEC dismissed GOP claims that Gmail was filtering campaign ad emails, after the company showed the spam filter was for “commercial reasons” (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Google says the FEC dismissed GOP claims that Gmail was filtering campaign ad emails, after the company showed the spam filter was for “commercial reasons”  —  GOP committees cited an academic article to claim Google’s spam filters were designed to benefit Democrats

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Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD’s training dataset is open source (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD’s training dataset is open source  —  Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.

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Google’s Nest appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed “Grogu”, with support for Bluetooth LE and UWB, possibly for launch at I/O (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google’s Nest appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed “Grogu”, with support for Bluetooth LE and UWB, possibly for launch at I/O  —  Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple’s AirTags and Tile trackers …

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A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report (Washington Post)

Washington Post: A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report  —  The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say

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