How will the subsequent US president cope with massive tech?

During the last 4 years, the Biden administration’s antitrust efforts have been notable by their sheer quantity, with ongoing circumstances in opposition to Apple, Meta, Google and Amazon — in addition to sparring with tech-adjacent gamers like Ticketmaster. Biden’s workforce has pushed to forestall large mergers, enhance competitors and punish firms (nevertheless calmly) for unfair enterprise practices.

So how about your next president? We examine Kamala Harris (who appears much less aggressive on antitrust than her predecessor) to Donald Trump, whose stint within the White Home was additionally fairly energetic within the antitrust area. Trump already has robust opinions on a few of the largest gamers within the tech area too.

— Mat Smith

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And, with M4 and M4 Professional chips, a whole lot of energy.

Apple’s refreshed Mac mini is a five-inch by five-inch field, two inches tall, that could possibly be a severe workhorse. Certain, you’ll be able to equip it with Apple’s M4 chip, nevertheless it will also be configured with an much more highly effective M4 Professional mannequin, introduced alongside the brand new mini.

So sure, it’s smaller than what got here earlier than it (the M2 iteration was a shorter 7.75-inch sq.). In actual fact, it’s getting all the way down to virtually Apple TV sizes. Apple has additionally lastly given us a number of entrance ports: two USB-C ports and a 3.5mm headphone jack. And if you happen to go for the M4 Professional model, which delivers Thunderbolt 5 connectivity for the primary time on a Mac, with as much as 3 times the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3, in addition to as much as 64GB of RAM.

That bandwidth will price you, although. The brand new M4 Mac mini is on pre-order now, beginning at $599 ($499 for schooling prospects), and it’ll be available in shops on November 9. The M4 Professional mannequin, in the meantime, begins at $1,399.

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That’s how poorly the workforce shooter was acquired.

Sony has formally killed off Harmony and is shuttering the studio behind the sport. Harmony‘s servers have been taken down simply after the launch of the aggressive workforce shooter from Firewalk Studios, after poor gross sales. Sony purchased the studio solely final spring.

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The six-parter stars Gabriel Leone.

After the success of docuseries Drive to Survive, Netflix is spotlighting a motorsport nice. Senna will present the roots, drive and tragic passing of Ayrton Senna (Gabriel Leone) as he goes from racing go-karts in São Paulo, Brazil, to worldwide superstardom and 41-time Grands Prix winner.

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