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Black Friday Roundup: Deals to be found on iPhones, Macs, iPads, AirPods, etc.

The Black Friday deals have gone live and they are prodigies. As usual, the large retail chains, such as Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Kohl’s, and Lowe’s, are offering a number of good deals and many online-only deals are already available. Here we go:

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Apple hits milestone, becomes world’s first trillion dollar publicly traded company

Apple has officially become the world’s first and only trillion dollar publicly traded company. Apple achieved this milestone by hitting a stock price of $207.05 and above in intraday trading today, giving it a market cap slightly over $1,000,000,000,000, based on its 4,829,926,000 outstanding shares as of July 20, 2018, which the company disclosed in […]

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Rumor: HomePod to receive extensive new feature set via software update this fall

The HomePod is rumored to have a fairly significant set of updates coming its way. While the HomePod has gotten positive reviews in terms of its audio capabilities, it’s a bit behind the eight ball when compared with Amazon and Google’s smart speaker offerings. According to a rumor from French web site iGeneration, a beta […]

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Apple, other tech firms, push back against encryption backdoor proposals suggested by law enforcement agencies, cite privacy concerns

The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]

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GE announces three additional HomeKit-compatible air conditioner models

Air conditioners may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but they come in handy. Following up on the release of its AHP08LX HomeKit-compatible air conditioner, GE has announced that AEC08LX, AEC10AX, AEC12AX, and AHP10LX models all use GE’s WiFi Connect technology, allowing the air conditioners to work with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, […]