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Some users report intermittently crackling sounds on 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, no clear cause or fix cited at present

As nifty as the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, a number of them may be experiencing intermittent crackling from the built-in speakers. The crackling appears to occur spontaneously during audio playback on both 13-inch and 15-inch models, based on a handful of videos shared by customers. As with many crowdsourced issues, there are a […]

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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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Chase Bank announces Apple Pay functionality on 16,000+ ATMs in the United States

Chase Bank on Wednesday announced that customers can now use Apple Pay, as well as other mobile wallet services, at nearly all all of the company’s 16,000 ATMs, which have been upgraded with card-free access. To access an ATM and withdraw money, customers no longer need a physical debit card or access code for authentication, […]

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Security researchers look into “Calisto” malware two years after it surfaces for the Mac

Roughly two years after their circulation, security researchers have discovered infections of macOS malware named “Calisto”. The malware was seemingly developed in 2016 and may have been a precursor to the “Proton” macOS trojan that started to circulate in 2017. Calisto functions as a trojan that takes the form of an unsigned DMG for Intego’s […]

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Apple releases details on Intel’s JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller found on the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro

Last week, the rather cool cats at iFixit ran a complete teardown of the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. The analysis located Intel’s new JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller, introduced earlier this year as part of its “Titan Ridge” family among the notebooks components. While the specifications for the JHL7540 lists compatibility with DisplayPort 1.4 on […]