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Apple will make its new Mac Pro in Texas to avoid tariffs

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 5:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Apple announced last night it’ll be manufacturing the newest Mac Pro in Austin, Texas. That makes the high-end device the company’s only major product to be assembled in the US. This comes after a report from Bloomberg last week saying Apple has obtained tariff waiver for 10 out of 15 parts it had requested the exemption for. The Cupertino-based firm’s CEO, Tim Cook, said the company is proud to be building the Mac Pro in Austin: The Mac Pro is Apple’s most powerful computer ever and we’re proud to be building it in Austin. We thank the administration for their…

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Apple will make its new Mac Pro in Texas to avoid tariffs

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 5:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Apple announced last night it’ll be manufacturing the newest Mac Pro in Austin, Texas. That makes the high-end device the company’s only major product to be assembled in the US. This comes after a report from Bloomberg last week saying Apple has obtained tariff waiver for 10 out of 15 parts it had requested the exemption for. The Cupertino-based firm’s CEO, Tim Cook, said the company is proud to be building the Mac Pro in Austin: The Mac Pro is Apple’s most powerful computer ever and we’re proud to be building it in Austin. We thank the administration for their…

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Google plans to give you more control over ‘Hey Google’ sensitivity

Sep23
by on September 23, 2019 at 11:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


“Hey Google, what’s the weather like?” “OKAY Google, what’s the weather like?” “YO GOOGLE ARE YOU LISTENING?” If you’ve ever had a similarly one-sided conversation with the Google Assistant, you might appreciate an upcoming update. In a blog post detailing privacy changes to the Assistant (more on this in a bit), Google announced it plans to add an option to let you adjust the Assistant’s sensitivity to your voice: Soon we’ll also add a way to adjust how sensitive your Google Assistant devices are to prompts like “Hey Google,” giving you more control to reduce unintentional activations, or if you’d…

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