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Apple agrees to $50 million settlement over MacBook's old defective butterfly keyboards

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If you purchased a MacBook between 2015 and 2019 with the dreaded butterfly keyboard, a couple of Benjamins may soon be on your way, courtesy of Apple. On Tuesday, Apple agreed to settle a class action lawsuit against the company over its flawed butterfly keyboards. As part of the settlement, Apple will pay $50 million.

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Siri, bring me weed

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Buying weed on the Apple App Store is getting way easier — and even more competitive. The Apothecarium, a new app on the Apple App Store , lets users in New Jersey and California place orders for pickup for their dispensaries.

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Where to access banned books

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Think: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe , a memoir about adolescence and gender identity ( banned/challenged in schools in Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Ohio, Washington, and Texas). You can download a copy of your selected book or read it on the site itself. Credit: Screenshot / Many Books.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

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Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook’s service will launch on the desktop web and Android, but not iOS due to what Facebook frames as usability restrictions outlined in Apple’s App Store terms and conditions.

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Bringing the AR of the Military to the Eyes of Consumers, with ThirdEye Gen’s Nick Cherukuri

XR for Business Podcast

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. And I think from Apple’s perspective.

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Bringing the AR of the Military to the Eyes of Consumers, with ThirdEye Gen’s Nick Cherukuri

XR for Business Podcast

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. And I think from Apple’s perspective.

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Bringing the AR of the Military to the Eyes of Consumers, with ThirdEye Gen's Nick Cherukuri

XR for Business Podcast

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. And I think from Apple's perspective.

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