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Apple just announced its latest MacBook. It’s tiny. It makes the Macbook Air look like a Dell Inspiron circa 2002. But hopefully you’re not one of those jerks that actually uses the ports on the side of your computer. This MacBook only has a single USB-C and it does everything from charging, to sending video out and transporting data. It’s the only port on the computer meaning owners cannot charge the computer and an iPhone at the same time. It’s not possible to output video to a monitor and input data from an external drive — at least not without a hub. This single port was likely the byproduct of Apple’s quest to make the thinnest MacBook possible. Ports take a lot of room. Thanks to their physical structure, the female jack cannot be made that much smaller. This isn’t the first time Apple threw out industry standards. In 1998 Apple shocked the industry and didn’t include a floppy drive or serial ports in the iMac G3. Instead Apple included a CD-ROM an...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Associated Press Apple   AAPL   +0.19%  responded to China’s influential state broadcaster, which called the iPhone a  “national security concern”  because of a feature that learns the locations of places a user visits most frequently. In a statement titled  “Your Location Privacy”  published on Apple’s China website, the company said it does not track users or share their locations with outsiders. Apple said it created the “frequent locations” feature so users can “quickly and reliably determine their current locations for specific activities such as shopping, travel, finding the nearest restaurant or calculating the amount of time it takes them to get to work.” The statement came in response to a report on Friday by state-run China Central Television, which criticized the frequent locations function in Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system, because it records the time and lo...