Apple CEO Tim Cook addresses Charlottesville, company to donate $2M to fight hate — Responding to last weekend’s demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia which resulted in the death of a human rights protester, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a letter to company staff deriding hate groups, bigotry and violence, and denouncing President Donald Trump’s speech claiming ‘equivalence’ of white nationalists and human rights advocates. Apple has also cut of Apple Pay support to any companies promoting hatred, and for websites selling white supremacist goods.
Lawsuit over Apple store workers’ unpaid time may be heading to the California Supreme Court — A class action suit over Apple store workers’ unpaid time spent in bag checks may soon be headed to the California Supreme Court, reports AppleInsider. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the state’s Supreme Court to decide whether bag checks are “compensable as ‘hours worked’ within the meaning of California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 7,” even when people could technically avoid the checks by leaving purses, backpacks, and other bags at home. [Well, imagine being caught with an Android phone! Sorry, I am being facetious.]
Asteroid: Space Defense space shooter blasts onto the Mac — FreneticGamez has launched Asteroid: Space Defense 1.0 for the Mac. The retro arcade space shooter in which you control your space ship to avoid asteroids and other enemies in this retro shooter.
Back to school technical resources for students who are apple customers — Here’s a selected list of links that John Martellero thinks might be helpful for technical high school and college students. It’s not exhaustive and does not cover all academic disciplines, and it’s US-centric but may be useful.
How to safely test Apple’s Public Betas — Apple is now offering Public Betas of its next generation operating systems. Anyone can install pre-release versions, known as Public Betas, of the next releases of iOS, macOS; and tvOS. That’s mostly a good thing. The more people testing an operating system before its release, the less likely there will be unforeseen issues with it when it ships. Here’s how to do it safely.
The Macs that can handle Bioshock Remastered — The Remastered version of BioShock brings the Art Deco first person shooter to 1080p, but you’re going to need a Mac from 2013 or later to run it.
Feral has now announced requirements:
all 21.5” iMacs since late 2013 (1GB Nvidia GT 750M Models are not officially supported)
All 27” iMacs since late 2013 (1GB Nvidia GT 755M Models are not officially supported)
All 13” MacBook Pros since late 2016; all 15” MacBook Pros since late 2013, and all Mac Pros since late 2013.
The company said that Late 2012 iMac models with 2GB Nvidia 680MX graphics cards are also supported. The game will play on 2012 and other 2013 Macs, as well, but aren’t officially supported.
BioShock Remastered will be priced at US$19.99 through Feral and Steam, and a Mac App Store version will appear “shortly afterwards.”
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