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Apple releases updated 13-inch, 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with 8th and 9th-gen Intel chips, updated butterfly keyboards

Apple has announced its new group of MacBook Pro notebooks, complete with Intel’s newest 8th and 9th generation Core processors as well as a revamped ultra slim butterfly keyboard with new enhancements to substantially reduce issues users may experience with stuck or unresponsive keys.  The 15-inch MacBook Pro was updated no less than twice in […]

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Rumor: Apple could include 18-watt USB-C power adapter with 2019 model iPhones

Once again, the rumor mill has it that Apple is ditching the 5-watt USB power adapter for an 18-watt USB-C power adapter. The rumor comes from Chinese suppliers, who’ve stated that all three new iPhone models are said to include the same 18-watt USB-C adapter as does the new iPad Pro, but that doesn’t mean […]

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Apple shareholder meeting provides rare hint as to upcoming iPad Pro USB-C feature

Sometimes Apple offers the coolest upcoming product teases in a rare moment. Over at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Apple’s Craig Federighi answered a shareholder question about iPad Pro models, USB-C, and the current inability to do video over USB-C. The question came during Apple’s Q&A part of its annual shareholder meeting in Cupertino on […]

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Cyber security researchers detail USB-C Thunderbolt hack, offer advice to avoid the hack

And this is why you don’t plug random devices into the USB-C ports on your Mac. A group of researchers over at Light Blue Touchpaper have detailed a vulnerability through the Thunderbolt interface with USB-C ports. The attack, if executed correctly, can give hackers full access to data that “should never leave the machine. On […]

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Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo calls out Apple’s expected 2019 lineup, features

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo isn’t wrong that often, and a thoroughly-researched, recently-released note to investor describes Apple’s 2019 lineup as including the following for iPhone units: A 6.5-inch OLED iPhone model A 6.1-inch LCD iPhone model A 5.8-inch OLED iPhone model Kuo also states he expects the iPhone XR’s successor to be upgraded to 4GB of […]