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Fourth time’s the charm.Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff / Thomas Germain (Getty Images)Apple is famous for breaking records, and apparently it’s just as competitive when it comes to getting sued. The company was just hit with a fourth class-action lawsuit over accusations surreptitious iPhone data collection. Three of those lawsuits were filed in January alone. Impressive. In November, Gizmodo exclusively reported on research demonstrating that your iPhone collectshyper-detailed data about what you do on its apps, like…

MacBook Pro 13 Photo: Phillip Tracy/GizmodoApple boasted at WWDC 2022 about the performance of its M2 chip but failed to mention anything about slower SSD speeds in the refreshed MacBook Pro 13. As MacRumors reports, YouTubers Max Tech and Created Tech discovered that the base model with 256GB of storage has significantly reduced storage speeds compared to the previous M1 MacBook Pro.And by significantly, I mean that the read and write speeds are about 50% and 30% slower, respectively, than before. The two YouTuber…

M2Image: AppleFueling the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 is Apple’s second-generation processor, the M2. Built on the same platform as its predecessor, the M2 boasts speeds and memory bandwidth to enable significantly faster performance—at least, according to Apple.We should be getting our hands on the new laptops running M2 in the future, at which point we’ll put the chip through some rigorous benchmarking. In the meantime, we’ll have to take Apple’s word that the M2's 20 billion transistors will drive significantly…