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    “Trumpmania” abortion battle begins: Ohio passes extreme heartbeat bill

    This place is getting scarier than the back room of an abortion clinic. I click "tech news" but somehow keep ending up in "fuck you conservative America. DIE! DIE! DIE!" I think it's my TCP/IP settings.
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    Reddit chief admits to editing comments that were critical of him

    To promote national stability. This is at the heart of why the Civil War was fought. You can't have a geographically and ethnically diverse nation controlled by a few city states. People will refuse to be strong-armed into policies they dislike and will actively work to undermine the system...
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    WSJ: OLED screens could be coming to the next iPhone

    I think quantum dot displays still use a backlight and liquid crystal layer. The big difference is that the dots are on the surface of the screen, generating RGB without any filters in the way. You get LCDs quickly improving contrast ratio (6000:1 and growing) without any of the viewing angle...
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    Clinton v. Trump on copyrights and patents: Reading the platform and the tea leaves

    No kidding. Even Ars and Lamell concede her Effective Copyright Policy is cryptic, filled with "flowery language," and "hard to tell what it really means." Hillary is a career politician skilled at filling a room with words that mean nothing. Like the general electorate, the Democratic party is...
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    15 hours with the 13” MacBook Pro, and how Apple’s T1 bridges ARM and Intel

    Review suggestions: Did the 3.5mm jack lose its digital optical output? Apple no longer mentions it in the tech specs. How well does the palm rejection work now that the trackpad is twice the size? Is the haptic feedback effect reduced due to the larger area, such as when clicking the corners...
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    No new MacBook Airs as Apple instead makes lower-end, $1,500 MacBook Pro

    We're proud to announce that we're releasing our thinnest Macbook Pros yet! We think you're going to love it. :p
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    Apple quietly kills non-Retina MacBook Pro it sold for four years

    The 2012 screen was decent if you bought the high-res screen option. The CPU performance is still great. All it really loses out on today is idle battery life, GPU performance and thinness/weight. It was one of Apple's high-water marks. There's a reason people were buying the 2012 model new...
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    Liveblog: Apple’s first Mac event in ages starts October 27 at 1pm ET

    Well, I saw them demo it for like 45 minutes. No professional is going to use that Touch Bar to edit video, pictures or music. They'll use shortcuts, keybindings or dedicated hardware. All I could think of in the back of my mind was, "What does this solve?" Fast user switching via the Touch ID...
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    Liveblog: Apple’s first Mac event in ages starts October 27 at 1pm ET

    That was pretty uninspiring. The Touch Bar is gimmicky, thin Butterfly keys, no OLED displays, no MagSafe, don't care about thinness anymore, too many demos, presenters are too fake. I really used to look forward to these, but I don't know if I'll be watching the next one. :/
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    Liveblog: Apple’s first Mac event in ages starts October 27 at 1pm ET

    They're probably going OLED, as Alienware and Lenovo have already done. A calibrated OLED display would be a major upgrade. Much bigger than the move retina screens were.
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    Liveblog: Apple’s first Mac event in ages starts October 27 at 1pm ET

    It's the Apple logo superimposed over bursts of colored powder, like you see in a lot of 4K television advertisements. Here's an example narrated by Jony Ive's brother.
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    Microsoft announces Surface Studio all-in-one touchscreen PC

    Jumbo iPads. Does that count? :p
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    What to expect from Apple’s Mac event this week

    If you plan to keep a Macbook for a few years, a hardware 10-bit 4K HEVC/VP9 decoder is a big deal IMO. I wouldn't want my future self to be stuck watching Netflix/Youtube/etc. on my $$$ laptop in 1080p or 4K via software decoding. Otherwise, yeah... Kaby Lake is mostly just Intel's way of...
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    macOS 10.12.1 spills the beans on the new MacBook Pro

    No speaker holes are better than speaker holes. I show you a 13" Macbook Pro with no speaker holes. This article shows the new 13" Macbook Pro with speaker holes. I say that is a regression. I rest my case. BTW, both iterations of the Macbook Air and the original Unibody Macbook never had...
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    macOS 10.12.1 spills the beans on the new MacBook Pro

    Nice straw man. Where did I hold the Google Pixel as the paragon of design? I'm complaining about a regression in Macbook Pro computers.
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    macOS 10.12.1 spills the beans on the new MacBook Pro

    Ok, give me a moment ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... OK, I found this on the web for 'press releases on Formula 1'
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    macOS 10.12.1 spills the beans on the new MacBook Pro

    That was my first thought. How are you supposed to clean such tiny holes? The minimalism afforded by under-keyboard speakers were worth the negligible sound quality loss, IMO.
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    macOS 10.12.1 mostly focuses on fixing Sierra’s bugs

    Your computer is more than 5 years old? That's just sad.