Jul 17th 2018
MacBreak Weekly 619
Liquid Steak
New MacBook Pro, World Emoji Day
Records live every Tuesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
- MacBook Pro gets a spec bump and a "quieter" keyboard
- Siri gets a new boss
- Apple execs get a Memoji makeover
- Apple gets sued over Do Not Disturb
Picks of the Week
- Alex's Pick: Video Compression Handbook
- Andy's Pick: LiquidText for iOS
- Leo's Pick: Thrifter.com
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Links
- Here are the 70 new emoji coming to iOS
- Apple’s new MacBook Pros have the latest Intel processors and quieter keyboards - The Verge
- Apples New MacBook Pros
- Apple Partnered with Blackmagic Design on an External GPU for MacBooks
- Blackmagic eGPU
- Apple just discontinued the only MacBook Pro worth buying
- MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown by iFixit
- Apple groups Siri and Machine Learning teams, ex-Google hire Giannandrea named Chief of ML and AI
- Apple replaced its executive portraits with Memoji
- In iOS 11.4.1, Apple fixed a longstanding bug that caused some region-specific iOS devices to crash when "Taiwan" was typed
- Thrifter
- Apple partners with Malala Foundation to fight for equal education opportunities for girls in Brazil
- Apple sued by patent troll over 'Do Not Disturb While Driving' tech
- Apple pulls 'QDrops' from App Store, for-pay app pushed wild conspiracy theory
- Video Compression Handbook
- LiquidText for iOS/iPad