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    How will the following US president cope with huge tech?

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    Over the past 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 crew has pushed to forestall large mergers, enhance competitors and punish corporations (nevertheless evenly) for unfair enterprise practices.

    So how about your subsequent president? We evaluate 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 house. Trump already has robust opinions on a number of the greatest gamers within the tech house too.

    — Mat Smith

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    Apple

    Apple’s refreshed Mac mini is a five-inch by five-inch field, two inches tall, that could possibly be a critical workhorse. Positive, you’ll be able to equip it with Apple’s M4 chip, nevertheless it can 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.). The truth is, it’s getting all the way down to virtually Apple TV sizes. Apple has additionally lastly given us a couple of entrance ports: two USB-C ports and a 3.5mm headphone jack. And when you 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 value you, although. The brand new M4 Mac mini is on pre-order now, beginning at $599 ($499 for training clients), 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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    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 crew shooter from Firewalk Studios, after poor gross sales. Sony purchased the studio solely final spring.

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    Netflix

    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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