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Submission + - Apple's updated 15-inch MacBook Pros have storage soldered to the logic board

Submitted by yoink! on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:46PM

yoink! writes: The integration loop is complete. Apple's, admittedly very fast, PCIe storage modules are now built right into the main boards of their 15-inch, Touch Bar equipped, Retina-screened, Thunderbolt 3 ported, MacBook Pros. A few forum posts over at MacRumors reveals the skinny on the quiet removal of the last user-upgradable component of their professional-series laptops.

Submission + - Of course, someone claims to own a patent covering many current HTTPS use cases

Submitted by yoink! on Monday November 30, 2015 @09:59PM

yoink! writes: According to an article in The Register, corporations big and small are coming under legal fire from CryptoPeak; the holder of the patent has claimed that the Elliptic Curve Cryptography methods/implementations used as part of the HTTPS protocol violates their intellectual property. Naturally, reasonable people disagree.

Submission + - Trimble to acquire Google SketchUp (blogspot.ca)

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yoink!

on Thursday April 26, 2012 @02:47PM

yoink! writes: "It looks like Google is selling off SketchUp or, conversely, Trimble is acquiring it. Despite several indications there will continue to be a free version of the 3D modelling software, users are unsure about what this will mean for the SketchUp community at large as indicated by the comments on the official Google SketchUp Blog post. They are, however, rejoicing that they will be freed from Groups for SketckUp discussions."

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