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Jason Snell: ‘Some More Hands-On Experience With the New MacBook Pros’: Jason Snell: That’s a big trackpa... bit.ly/2ffUMMJ

Baldur Bjarnason: ‘The Downside of Believing in Apple’: Baldur Bjarnason: I suspect many of those annoyed... bit.ly/2f8nliQ

[Sponsor] NextDraft: NextDraft is a quick, entertaining look at the day’s best stories, from the top of the n... nextdraft.com

Kottke.org Memberships: Jason Kottke: Anyone who relies on an audience of some kind — artists... bit.ly/2eRQPAD

Chuq Von Rospach on the State of the Mac: Chuq Von Rospach: I long ago got used the the idea that no matt... bit.ly/2fb9hB9

Apples vs. Oranges — Thick, Heavy Oranges: Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews on Ubuntu PC-maker System76 se... bit.ly/2f7jL6n

Translation From Apple Lingo to English of Tim Cook’s Year-Ago ‘Why Would You Buy a PC Anymore?’ Comment: Thi... bit.ly/2f7gHr3

Michael Tsai’s Roundup of Commentary on the New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac: Dozens and dozens of l... bit.ly/2fb7Kvc

Who’s to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook Pros: Apple or Intel?: “Exploding_m1”, in a thread ... bit.ly/2e6PRg1

★ On Hiding vs. Encapsulating Complexity, in the Context of Twitter’s Experimental Reply Interface: If users ... bit.ly/2ekGme1

The Touch Bar T1 Chipset Contains an ARM CPU and Secure Enclave: Matthew Panzarino, again: When will Appl... tcrn.ch/2eQXlIk

Why Apple’s MacBook Touch Bar Was the Right Thing to Do: Matthew Panzarino: People love a Greek tragedy. ... tcrn.ch/2eQWOGi

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race: Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr., reporting for ProPublica:... bit.ly/2f0vC4i

Why Isn’t Netflix Part of Apple’s New TV App?: Pavan Rajam: As for why Netflix is opting out of this app,... bit.ly/2dQEQPJ

Developer Documentation for Touch Bar: The Human Interface Guidelines are an interesting read. In person, th... apple.co/2dQmMFF

The Talk Show: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’: Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics includ... bit.ly/2dYrDb8

Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik: Hands-On With the Surface Studio: Penny Arcade illustrator Mike Krahulik: I... bit.ly/2fgxgDp

Microsoft Surface Studio: Microsoft’s big news today: a 28-inch all-in-one iMac-like PC that folds down into ... bit.ly/2eT48O0

Apple Delays AirPods Rollout Past October: Matthew Panzarino: “The early response to AirPods has been inc... tcrn.ch/2dXHabd

Google Cans ‘CEO’ of Google Access, Halts Expansion of Google Fiber: Kara Swisher, writing for Recode: Ex... on.recode.net/2eCJp4V