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Apple is making its own computer chips

Nov 11, 2020
The company is following in the footsteps of its success with the iPhone.
Apple is ending ties with Intel and will start using its own computer chips in its products.
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Apple brings manufacturing of Macs back to the U.S.

Dec 7, 2012
Apple's Tim Cook says some Macs will be assembled in America again, and a former Russian banker tries to make currency trading in video games a regular thing.

Yes, Mac users, you can get malware and it's on the rise

Apr 6, 2012
The Flashback Trojan has infected over 600,000 Mac computers around the world, most of them in the United States, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Plus, a new driving game where you are the road.

Apple updates Mini and Air, debuts Lion

Jul 20, 2011
New Mac Mini and Macbook Air computers now available in Apple stores feature the Thunderbolt feature, it's this souped up version of connectivity,...

Spotify is coming to America

Jul 7, 2011
That's a headline we could have written a year ago, possibly with a question mark at the end of it. The new wrinkle now is that the web music...

Apple offers Mac Defender defender*

Jun 1, 2011
Apple is offering an operating system update to neutralize any infection by the fake anti-virus program "Mac Defender". We talked about this a...

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New Mac malware wipes that smug look off of Apple fans' faces

May 20, 2011
For years, everyone's known that PCs are prone to malware and Macs are not. Just ask any Mac owner, they'll condescendingly tell you so. Well,...

Your computer is watching you too

Apr 27, 2011
It's not just your phones. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports "Apple gathers information from some Apple Macintosh computers connected to Wi-Fi...

Mac users are different than PC users

Apr 25, 2011
No, this was not a study in the most recent issue of the scholarly journal Duh. It's a set of data culled from some 388,000 people on the questio...