If you've been waiting for the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros to hit Apple's refurbished store, you're finally in luck. Apple has several refurbished models of the 13-inch Retina variant in stock and ready to ship to those who want to save a little bit of cash when buying their next laptop.
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13-inch Retina MacBooks now available in Apple’s refurbished store
Minecraft sales top 15 million in 2012
We already knew that sales for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition came in over the 5 million mark for 2012, but today we're getting a broader picture of the sales the franchise managed last year. Mojang has shared a list of Christmas Day stats for all versions of Minecraft, and in doing so, the company has also revealed how many sales each version brought in throughout 2012. Needless to say, the numbers for each impress, while the final tally for the franchise in general is pretty staggering.
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Firefox 18 offers Retina support for Macs, speeds things up with IonMonkey
Earlier today, Mozilla released Firefox 18, which brings with it a host of new features and improvements, including Retina display for Mac support. Thanks to the IonMonkey JavaScript compiler, Web games and apps are up to 25-percent faster, while Android Firefox users now get search suggestions while typing. You can download the latest release from the Firefox website.
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Blue Microphones launches Nessie with adaptive processing technology
If you have experience issues with audio editing from time to time (as most of us almost certainly do), then you might want to give this new product from Blue Microphones a look. Dubbed Nessie, this new microphone aims to take the hassle out of audio editing and recording, offering a number of features that clean up your recording in real time. That sounds great as far as we're concerned, especially considering how much of a headache audio editing can be.
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Elite: Dangerous reaches Kickstarter goal with two days left
It was a close one, folks, but it looks like Elite: Dangerous will become a reality after all. The latest entry in the much-love space sim series reached its Kickstarter funding goal of £1,250,000 earlier today, crossing the finish line with just over two days left to go. At the time of this writing, there are 51 hours left before the campaign wraps, with developer Frontier Developments adding a number of new stretch goals in these final hours.
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Thunderbolt cables go fiber optic (up to 100 feet long!)
This week the folks at Sumitomo Electric Industries have announced that they're the first group in the world to receive certification from Intel to produce optical Thunderbolt cables - time to get long! This means that once they get moving with production, SEI will be able to produce cords up to 100 feet in length rather than the approximately 10 foot length they're limited to today. While today's Thunderbolt cable requires metal components that limit their length to about the size of a desk, we'll soon be rolling out across the whole room with optical builds.
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Apple rumored to partner with Broadcom for 802.11ac WiFi in 2013 Macs
Apple's next update for its Mac lineup will obviously include a few welcome upgrades, but it's rumored that Apple has struck a deal with wireless chip firm Broadcom in order to bring high-speed 802.11ac 5G "Gigabit WiFi" to future Macs later this year. If true, the new WiFi chips will provide a much-needed boost in networking for the 2013 Macs.
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Apple’s 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook promised a 2012 to remember, and with sweeping changes across the iOS and Mac ranges, new software and services, and more than a few courtroom battles, the Cupertino firm delivered. The new fourth-gen iPad with Retina display and its iPad mini sibling, along with the iPhone 5, cemented Apple‘s position as the benchmark against which new tablets and phones are measured. Yet it wasn’t all smooth sailing, and the past twelve months saw Apple forced to wake up to a new position in the consumer electronics marketplace.
The Basement Collection, Cave Story+ added to Humble Indie Bundle 7
The Humble Indie Bundle 7 has been available for a week now, so that must mean it's time for new games. Sure enough, a trio of indie gems has joined the already stellar Humble Bundle, bringing the total number of games on offer up to nine. The offer doesn't just stop at games though, as Indie Game: The Movie and nine different soundtracks are also included in the bundle.
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BlueStacks beta for Mac brings 750,000+ Android apps to OS X
Android app player BlueStacks has launched for Mac, with a new beta allowing OS X users to run software intended for Android phones and tablets on their iMac, MacBook Pro, or other Apple kit. The freshly released beta - which follows a similar Windows version released earlier this year - means more than 750,000 Android titles can now be run on OS X, a huge increase from the sparse number of compatible titles from June's alpha release for Mac.
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GOG holiday sale kicks off with deals on The Witcher 2, Torchlight
We're often tricked into thinking that no one does gaming sales better than Valve, but GOG is showing us today that such a claim simply isn't true. GOG has kicked off its holiday sale, with most of its catalog discounted in one way or another. It seems that not every game in GOG's catalog is being discounted, but you'd be hard pressed to find games that aren't included in this sale.
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Apple CEO: US Mac production in 2013
Apple will bring some Mac production to the US in 2013, CEO Tim Cook has confirmed, investing more than $100m into the strategy to increase the involvement of US workers. Outlining the plans in a broad-ranging interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, in which he also discusses the ongoing legal battle with Samsung and his personal dissatisfaction with Android and Windows tablets, Cook said that Apple had taken a longer-strategy to production so that it wasn’t merely piecing together a few foreign parts.
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