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String in macOS Sierra beta code points to possible USB 3.1 Gen 2, Thunderbolt 3 support in future Mac hardware

It’s the beta code that sometimes points out nifty Mac hardware to come. Next-gen Macs may support USB 3.1 Gen 2, enabling peripheral speeds up to a maximum 10 gigabits per second according to code strings found in the latest macOS Sierra beta build. A string in the Sierra beta mentions SuperSpeed+, a term reserved […]

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Recent changes to Apple’s retail, online stores may indicate near-term exit for non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro with optical drive

The curtain might finally be drawing to a close on the non-Retina MacBook Pro with an optical drive. Recent changes to Apple’s online store have tucked the model out of the way on the main MacBook Pro page and hidden at the bottom of the ‘buy‘ page. It now appears that the company is doing […]

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Google Drive for iOS updated to 4.0, adds new Material Design user interface, other features

Google Drive for iOS has just been updated and it’s added some nifty new features. The app now features a Material Design user interface to bring it in like with Google’s other apps. A new swipe feature can be used to go back a level in the app and other new features include faster syncing, […]

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Updated version of Google Drive gains new status menu, bandwidth controls

Google Drive will be getting some additional muscle this week, a new version becoming available for OS X and Windows. Per 9to5Mac and the Google blog, the new version includes an improved status menu to show much more information than before. Now, you can see the files that are being synced up to the cloud […]

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Apple releases Safari 8.0.2 update

It’s not a huge update, but it helps. On Friday, Apple released version 8.0.2 of its Safari web browser. The new version, a 53.8 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue that could prevent history from syncing across devices if iCloud Drive is not on. • – Fixes an issue […]