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Consumer Reports cites varying battery performance on 2016 MacBook Pros, holds back recommendation on new notebooks

Consumer Reports feels there’s an issue with the 2016 MacBook Pro battery. The publication, which has reviewed the notebook, Consumer Reports explained that while the new models held up well in terms of display quality and performance, the battery life issues were too big of an issue to overlook. The organization tested three MacBook Pro […]

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WWDC: Flash, older plug-ins to be turned off by default in macOS Sierra, push towards HTML5 continues

In another sign that Flash is pretty much on its way out, Apple engineer Ricky Mondello announced that Safari 10, which will arrive in the upcoming macOS Sierra operating system, will arrive with legacy plug-ins like Flash turned off by default. The Mac maker is planning similar measures with other plug-ins like Java, Silverlight and […]

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Apple releases iOS 9.3.1 update, looks to fix iOS 9 link crashes

Following more than a week of uproar regarding the universal links bugs, Apple released iOS 9.3.1 on Thursday. The update looks to repair a web link crashing issue that has affecting many iOS 9 users. The update is available as an over-the-air update for all iOS 9 users and it can also be downloaded through […]

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Google Chrome 46 to include Mac-specific changes, reduce memory consumption, boost performance

If the current builds of the Chrome web browser have been driving you mildly nuts, Google might have some fixes on the way. A test build of Google’s forthcoming Chrome 46 makes substantial improvements to the performance of the Web browser on the Mac. The build appears to halve Chrome’s memory consumption, and make formely […]

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YouTube begins transition from Flash to HTML5, shows signs of the times

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like Flash is finally on its way out. Or at least YouTube will be helping it on its way out as it converts over to HTML5. Per Macworld, five years after Google introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube, Google’s popular video site now defaults […]