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“Staingate” controversy gains traction, cites Apple as responsible for screen coating damage on Retina display notebooks

This is pretty much the digital version of the local peasantry showing up at your front door with torches and pitchforks. A small number of Retina MacBook Pro owners are calling for Apple to replace or repair their notebooks after discovering what appears to be irreparable damage to an antireflective screen coating layer, a problem […]

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Analyst predicts Apple streaming TV service to be below $40 per month

No one’s quite sure how much an Apple streaming/Web TV service would cost per month, but guesses are being made. Rod Hall of J.P. Morgan issued a note to investors on Wednesday, in which he said a US$40-per-month price tag for a subscription TV service would be too high. In his view, the incremental cost […]

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iPhone retail Rumor

Rumor: Apple to begin offering rewards for non-iPhone trade-ins

There’s now a reward system in place for turning non-iPhone smartphones in to Apple. Sources have stated that Apple is planning to add Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone handsets to the list of acceptable trade-ins for its Reuse and Recycling Program, which exchanges used hardware for Apple Store gift cards. Apple is apparently preparing to […]

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Hardware MacBook Pro News

Apple extends repair program to MacBook Pro notebooks that may be experiencing AMD GPU glitches

If your rather expensive MacBook Pro notebook is exhibiting video issues, Apple just began a new program which might be able to help you. A new repair initiative, officially titled “MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues,” applies to MacBook Pro computers sold between February 2011 and December 2013 that exhibit distorted video, no […]

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Leaked files outline NSA-sponsored hacker training, use of vulnerability within Safari web browser to gain access to devices

It’s interesting what the intelligence community gets up to in its day to day work. According to Spiegel Online International, the Politerain hiring process posted ads for candidates who wanted “to break things.” Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security […]