A nationwide class action lawsuit filed against Apple in Northern California court this week accuses the company of knowingly concealing a defect with a display-related flex cable on recent 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models.


As discovered by repair website iFixit last year, some MacBook Pro models released in 2016 and 2017 have experienced issues with uneven backlighting caused by a delicate flex cable that can wear out and break after repeated opening and closing of the display. Impacted notebooks can exhibit uneven lighting at the bottom of the screen, which has been described as a "stage light" effect, and the backlighting system can eventually fail entirely.

Since the issue often takes time to manifest, the affected ‌MacBook Pro‌ units can be outside of Apple's one-year warranty period when they start exhibiting symptoms, resulting in an out-of-warranty repair fee of up to $850.

"Imagine spending more than $2,500 on a laptop only for it to fail shortly after the manufacturer's warranty expires," said PARRIS Law Firm attorney R. Rex Parris. "What's even more appalling is Apple requiring customers to spend an additional $600 to $850 to replace the screen."

Apple seemingly fixed the issue by extending the length of the flex cable by 2mm in the 2018 MacBook Pro. It also launched a free repair program in May 2019, but the program only applies to 13-inch MacBook Pro models released in 2016.

iFixit found the 2018 MacBook Pro flex cable on the left to be 2mm longer
The class action lawsuit seeks restitution for all costs attributable to replacing or replacing the affected MacBook Pro units, and calls for Apple to expand its repair program to cover the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The proposed class is defined as all persons within the United States who purchased a 2016 or newer MacBook Pro.

Related Guide: "Flexgate" Display Issues Affecting 2016 MacBook Pro and Later
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IBM and Sesame Workshop today announced that Georgia’s Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation’s top urban school districts, has completed an initial pilot of the industry’s first cognitive vocabulary learning app, built on the IBM and Sesame intelligent play and learning platform. The new platform, powered by IBM Cloud, enables an ecosystem of software developers, researchers, educational toy companies, and educators to tap IBM Watson cognitive capabilities and Sesame Workshop’s early childhood expertise to build engaging experiences to help advance children’s education and learning. The cognitive vocabulary app is one of the first of many cognitive apps, games, and educational toys that will be built over time on this new platform, as a result of the two companies’ collaboration announced last year.

I went out to interview the players hunting in the park at night

The award-winning title from ILMxLAB heads to PlayStation VR this summer.

Emmy Nominee Leslye Headland to write, produce, and serve as showrunner for new untitled Star Wars series for Disney+.

We have been a house of virus this part weekend. I can’t say “flu,” because while Ferrett had a bad cough and sore throat, I’m not 100% sure it was actual influenza and not just some other nastiness going around (yes, we have had flu shots). In an unusual turn of events, Ferrett was sicker […]

1. Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues  Times of India
2. "Such A rHAIR Picture": CSK Troll Shikhar Dhawan For His Throwback Photo With Suresh Raina  NDTV Tamil
3. Wish BCCI plans with ICC: Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want Indian players to participate in foreign T20...  Hindustan Times
4. Indian selectors made me an oldie at 30, didn't communicate with me: Irfan Pathan  CricTracker
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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh penned a two-page open letter advocating flexibility for college athletes looking to enter the NFL Draft.

Oh, did you think we were going to eat it? Haven't you heard, wasting food is the manliest game! ~Not-So-Handy Andy

How to get your YouTube videos to auto play on your website Depending on your site having your videos auto play can help your site stand out. When it comes to embedding your videos from YouTube however there’s no feature to set up your video to auto play. It’s important to remember before you enable auto play on your videos that doing so can actually harm your site. Many people don’t like videos or music playing as soon as they open a page, especially if there’s no way to turn it off that’s easy to spot. Look at your site to see if this is something that you want to do.

1. Players to air concerns to Premier League executives over restart  The Guardian
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3. Project Restart Q&A: What next for Premier League after government announcement?  Sky Sports
4. Premier League must be very careful or the empire will come crashing down  The Guardian
5. Premier League considering new broadcast access - including inside changing rooms  Daily Star
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Playing to 130,000 online, with a virtual tip jar: Performers adapt to life under coronavirus  ABC News

Designer Andrey Rudenko was able to use a 3D concrete printer to make layer after layer of this little castle. His next goal? A complete two-story house.

Chelsea are going through a rocky period at the moment. They suffered a thrashing at the hands of Manchester United..

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This is one of seven stories, showcasing what service user and carer (SUAC) involvement in social work education looks like, what makes it work and what benefits it brings. It has a significant role to play in shaping the next generation of practitioners.

SUAC involvement in social work education has been mandatory for 15 years now, so there is a lot of learning to share with others who can learn from this - transferrable to educators and practitioners working across public services, and relevant to policy-makers committed to mainstreaming person-centred – or person-led – approaches based on real partnership working between those who use and those who deliver services.

Summary
This story is based around role play sessions that are held between social work students at the University of Strathclyde and members of the service user and carer group. The role play is part of an exercise called Fitness to Practise, so students have to take part in a role play before they go out on placement (this is done with second year undergraduate students on the BA course as well as first year students on the Masters course). Previously these sessions were carried out solely between students, but that didn't seem to be working, with it being much harder for students to imagine each other as service users and to use that experience to inform their future work.

PotterCast is back with a special hour long episode with the Potter Pundits!

 

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В отличие от большинства других финалок, фф5 активно пытается быть комедией. Локализация Advance-версии в этом начинании ей подыгрывает.

Игра начинается буквально с того, что на принцессу падает метеорит, отчего она ненадолго отключается.

И сразу же можно считать непростительные грехи. Да, амнезия. Да, над ней тут пытаются шутить, но по факту она нужна только для того, чтобы сперва Галуф не мог рассказать весь сюжет команде, а потом - чтобы все офигели от того, какой этот смешной старик на самом деле серьёзный король.

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Итак, наши герои телепортировались за Галуфом в его мир. И тут же оказались на необитаемом острове, где быстро сдохли от голода и скуки.

Но нет, надо ж было появиться какому-то приспешнику хсмерти и принести их к нему прямо в замок.

При помощи ЗЕРКАЛА злодей транслирует изображение героев, сидящих у него в подвале, в небо. huh

Локализаторы явно тут перестарались с шутками.

А теперь внимание.
У Хсмерти есть барьер, активация которого убьет всех людей, которые влезут к нему в замок.
Галуф не знает, что барьер уже готов, и поэтому идёт в атаку.
Хсмерть мог впустить его внутрь и убить всех сразу. Вместо этого он пытается шантажировать Галуфа его соратниками. И даже не обращает внимания на то, что Галуф не какой-то там шаг вперёл делает, а на виверне прилетает прямо к нему в замок и спасает друзей со всем их скарбом.
Какая глупость.

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Итак, миры объединились, герои пошли бухать в родной Тайкун, но потом все, кроме Ленны, сбежали с вечеринки и попёрлись к мудрой черепахе за сюжетом.

А он им и говорит "Help! I'm a turtle and I can't get up!"

This makes no fucking sense whatsoever but okay boomer

Оцените, пожалуйста, всю глубину лора и терминологии этой игры.
ПУСТОТА была запечатана в ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ между двумя мирами, которое называется ТРЕЩИНА. Злой пень ХСМЕРТЬ хочет заполучить СИЛУ ПУСТОТЫ.
Это примерно весь сюжет игры. Сплошные дебильные сущности, мутные условности и волшебные хуеверти. А вот, кстати, и следующая.

ВСЁ ЭТО ВРЕМЯ Я БЫЛ ЗАНОЗОЙ В ТВОЕЙ ЖОПЕ!

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Всю Final Fantasy III легко разделить на две части. Первая - это череда рандомной хуйни, куски которой друг с другом особо не вяжутся. Вторая - это основная сюжетка про злого Занде, чьё имя в первой половине почти не упоминается.

Ещё у фф3 есть две радикально разные версии. В оригинале с NES четверо героев были настолько безликими, что их имена не выводились даже рядом с их репликами. DS-ремейк (который был потом везде портирован) дал им разные дизайны и бэкграунды, но по факту ничего не изменил - герои по-прежнему максимально безликие болванчики. Какой-то намёк на индивидуальность есть только в самом начале, когда партию надо собирать (тут же главное отличие от оригинала в сценарии).

фф3 начинается буквально с ДЫРЫ. В оригинале сразу все четверо сюда падают, в ремейке - сперва один, потом остальных приводит. В ДЫРЕ живёт Кристалл, который нарекает их воинами света и говорит пойти мир спасать.

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Итак, в прошлый раз мы вернули себе эиршип, самое время полетать по миру и поиссле--

Ой.

Пролетали над королевством, а там устроенная самим королём гражданская война, наш корабль сбивают, выхода нет, все друг друга мочат, всё закрыто и в разрухе, принц прогнан из замка, но потом его вместе с партией впускают, а ночью король его пытается зарезать. Из всех коротких зарисовок из фф3 эта, пожалуй, наиболее яркая.

Плюс тут всё относительно неплохо продумано для несовских финалок. В Саронии, где партия оказывается заперта, есть магазин, гостиница, воскрешалка и леса, где можно подкачаться. Потому что Гаруда - ад.
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Uplay+ service, with access to + 100 games is is 50% off for the 1st month!  Members can get unlimited access to + 100 games for $6.99
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These has been in the 35-40s recently

2k has a new promotion during the pandemic they are offering a free game each week. I have little info about this but I'm playing mafia 3 on xbox one currently. feel free to post with details if you want. I barely remeber playing this on last gen, I think I played a few hours and quit. now though I'm really enjoying it as a time-filler, it's a good gta rip-off.

https://2k.com/en-US/blog/play-the-golf-club-2019-for-free-right-now/

 

Trial available on Xbox starting 12:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 11:59PM PT 5/13/20 and on Steam starting 10:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 9:59AM PT 5/14/20. Progress will transfer for people who purchase the full game.

 

2k is posting a free game play session each week

 

2K’s Give Back Project offers Free Play periods for the 2K community on Xbox and Steam

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It’s been nearly a month since the spreading coronavirus prompted Yosemite National Park’s closure on March 20, and resident black bears are making the most of it. Last year, 4.42 million people visited Yosemite. This year, it’s a bear’s world.[...]

Washington-based architect and designer Michael Mannhard has unveiled designs for BladeYARD, a proposal for a Burning Man 2021 installation built from recycled wind turbine blades. Created as a visual warning of the effects of climate change and shortsighted solutions, the installation mimics a large-scale ruin with parts of the blades submerged in the sands of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.[...]

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I'm away on holiday this week, so no regular Arsecast, but instead here's one that originally appeared on our Patreon feed. It's part of a series called The Players, and in this episode I chat to Philippe Auclair about Robert Pires, his career at Arsenal, favourite goals and moments, and much more. Enjoy.

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On this week's episode, the issue of football players taking pay cuts is to the fore, and with me to discuss that is Rory Smith, Chief Soccer Correspondent for the New York Times. We chat about an issue which all clubs are dealing with, not just Arsenal, at a time when the precarious nature of football finance is becoming very clear. Should players be responsible for cost savings which wealthy owners could easily cover? What other avenues could clubs go down, regarding salary caps? Will we see a more prudent landscape when we do see games played again? And how realistic is the idea of the Premier League season finishing by June 30th? All this and more with Rory.

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I’m a photographer and aspiring photo archivist. I was asked to digitize photos that were on display at a funeral/viewing. There were 65 photos.

Me: Sure, I could have this done pretty soon, no problem!

Client: Great! I didn’t have tape and didn’t want to use glue, so (with pride in their voice) guess what I used?

Me: (with pronounced fear in my voice) Uh… what?

Client: Toothpaste!

What was going to be an hour and a half project turned into two days of scraping and cleaning photos.

It’s 2019 and that means you’ve at least thought about having a New Year’s resolution! How does working more efficiently and freeing up two of your hours a day strike you?

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I found a fun game to play. It’s a pale substitute for actually being at conventions and hanging out with my friends, but it’s something. Question: What new character can I pull together to cosplay with stuff I already have at home? Answer:

October 12th, 2019
Austin City Limits Festival in Austin, Texas
Cure are scheduled to play from 8 - 10 pm central.

Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, A Night Like This, Just One Kiss, Lovesong, Last Dance, Burn, Fascination Street, Never Enough, Push, In Between Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Play For Today, A Forest, Shake Dog Shake, Disintegration

Encore: Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Walk, Friday I'm in Love, Close to Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.

Note: Eden Gallup is playing bass in place of Simon.

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It's not your imagination -- you and your baby really are on the same wavelength. A team of Princeton researchers has now measured baby and adult brain activity moving in sync as they play and interact together.

WASHINGTON (April 29, 2020) —  Today, the U.S.

Facebook Gaming welcomes you to a new world of play. Share in the joy and fun of rooting for top streamers as they play the world’s biggest games.

Here, you can play games instantly, and join groups centered around everything you are interested The ways to have fun are

It happens to every traveler You wake up in another dorm or hotel you wipe the sleep off your eyes and you take one foot out of bed but you just dont have the juice to get your through another day of travel.Sure these are the moments that you dre

It’s a stealth adventure with nowhere to hide and hundreds of respawning enemies waiting to attack you the moment you stand out in any way

I haven’t always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames. We’re inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I’d bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera – even though they’re obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds. Nobody writes articles in which opera-lovers are mocked as adult babies who never grew out of make-believe and sing-song; obsessive misfits who flock to weird “opening nights” wearing elaborate “tuxedo” cosplay outfits.

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Why did the 14-year-old football prodigy Thierno Ballo transfer from Bayer Leverkusen to the amateur club Viktoria Köln? He was apparently parked there as part of a contract with FC Chelsea.

Maria Sharapova effortlessly managed to combine her life as a tennis player with that of a superstar. With the announcement of her retirement, we take a look back at her career.

Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance. We randomly assign people to multiple teams and predict team performance based on previously assessed individual skills. Some people consistently cause their group to exceed its predicted performance. We call these individuals “team players”. Team players score significantly higher on a well-established measure of social intelligence, but do not differ across a variety of other dimensions, including IQ, personality, education and gender. Social skills – defined as a single latent factor that combines social intelligence scores with the team player effect – improve group performance about as much as IQ. We find suggestive evidence that team players increase effort among teammates.

De Niro, 76, also voiced his support for Joe Biden as a presidential candidate on "The Late Show," and was critical of President Trump’s handling of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.