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Thursday, 30 July 2020

Deals: New 13-Inch MacBook Pro Gets $199 Discount at Amazon, Starting at $1,599.99 for 512GB

A few notable discounts on Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models have appeared at Amazon and B&H Photo this week. Earlier in the week we shared news of 2020 MacBook Air notebooks for $100 off, and now the latest 13-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are seeing solid discounts.

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We've rounded up all of these deals in the lists below. Prices start at $899.00 for the 13-inch MacBook Air ($100 off), $1,599.99 for the 13-inch MacBook Pro ($199 off), and $2,099.00 for the 16-inch MacBook Pro ($300 off). These sales represent the current best prices online for each notebook.

MacBook Air

8GB RAM, 256GB SSD - $899.00, down from $999.00

8GB RAM, 512GB SSD - $1,199.00, down from $1,299.00

13-inch MacBook Pro

2.0GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD - $1,599.99, down from $1,799.00

2.0GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD - $1,799.99, down from $1,999.00

16-inch MacBook Pro

2.6GHz 6-core, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD - $2,099.00, down from $2,399.00 [matched at B&H]

2.3GHz 8-core, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD - $2,499.00, down from $2,799.00 [matched at B&H]

You can find even more discounts on other MacBooks by visiting our Best Deals guide for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. In this guide we track the steepest discounts for the newest MacBook models every week, so be sure to bookmark it and check back often if you're shopping for a new Apple notebook.

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Keep Your Floors Clean Effortlessly With a Roomba 960 Vacuum for $280, Today Only

iRobot Roomba 960 Robot Vacuum (Refurbished) | $280 | Amazon Gold Box

President Trump Ditches Mask as U.S. Death Toll Surpasses 150,000

President Donald Trump declined to wear a face mask at a photo-op for the oil industry in Midland, Texas on Wednesday, despite being in close proximity to several people in a state that’s crawling with the coronavirus. The decision to go maskless sent a decidedly anti-science message at a time when U.S. deaths from…

Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple With EU

Apple is facing another antitrust complaint in Europe, this time from the developers of encrypted messenger app Telegram.

In a complaint to the EU Commission, the app's creators argue that Apple must give iOS users the opportunity to download software outside of the App Store. The Financial Times reports:

In a complaint to EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager, Telegram, which has more than 400m users, said Apple must "allow users to have the opportunity of downloading software outside of the ‌App Store‌".

According to the paywalled report, Telegram's complaint recounted how in 2016 it was prevented from launching a gaming platform on the ‌App Store‌ because it was deemed to violate Apple's rules. Telegram subsequently dismantled the venture to avoid "being deleted from the ‌App Store‌," and claimed that it was "an example of Apple's capacity to curb innovation thanks to its 'monpolistic power' on the app market."

The complaint follows a blog post earlier this week by Telegram founder Pavel Durov in which he takes Apple to task and lists seven "myths" that the company uses to justify its 30 percent commission on apps hosted in the ‌App Store‌.

Telegram is the third company after Spotify and Rakuten to formally complain to the EU Commission, which is already conducting two investigations into Apple's ‌App Store‌ and Apple Pay.

This antitrust complaint is separate to the ongoing U.S. antitrust current investigation. On Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's ‌App Store‌ policies in a congressional hearing.

Tags: European Union, European Commission, antitrust, Telegram

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Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Jon Cryer and Ben Stiller Auditioned for a Very Different Back to the Future

Though the 35th anniversary of Back to the Future was earlier this month, the celebration continues into the fall. That’s when a brand new anniversary Blu-ray set is be released and news of it helped opened a door to a very appropriate alternate timeline.