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• Apple’s new MacBook Pro delivers innovation -- at a price

  29-10-2016 14:50
  
  I'll be honest: I love Apple's hardware presentations. They're more polished and far more interesting than those by other vendors. That made Thursday's Apple event something I looked forward to.
  In September, Apple offered up new iPhones, new Watches, iOS 10 and macOS Sierra - leaving room for at least another fall event that would focus less on mobile, more on the desktop. Hopeful Apple users weighed in online, eager to hear about new MacBook Pro laptops, maybe new MacBook Airs, updated iMacs,
  
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• How Google, Apple and Microsoft just saved the PC

  29-10-2016 13:00
  
  The long-neglected PC got a massive injection of innovation this week with major announcements from Google, Apple and Microsoft.
  Each company introduced advancements that users didn't ask for, didn't think they wanted and are already complaining about.
  Why? Because we love new technology in theory but hate it in practice.
  Technology change is expensive, transition is messy and people are creatures of habit.
  We demand innovation, but resist it when it actually appears in our favorite product lin
  
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• Hacking forum cuts section allegedly linked to DDoS attacks

  29-10-2016 02:47
  
  An online hackers' forum has deleted a section that allegedly offered paid distributed denial-of-service attacks, following last Friday's massive internet disruption.
  HackForums.net will be shutting down the "Server Stress Testing" section, the site's admin Jesse "Omniscient" LaBrocca said in a Friday posting.
  "I do need to make sure that we continue to exist and given the recent events I think it's more important that the section be permanently shut down," he wrote.
  The section was designed to
  
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