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Apple’s refreshed MacBook Pro reportedly on track to release later this month

Apple’s September event was jampacked with new products, however, the MacBook Pro, which has long been rumoured to get a refresh, didn’t get its time to shine.

Now, in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter (paywall), Mark Gruman reiterates that the new M1X chip MacBook Pro is expected to release within the next month during a Mac-centric Apple event, and considering that historically Apple has held its Mac-focused events around October or early November, the timeframe makes sense.

“We’ll likely see it show up first in a new range of MacBook Pros in the next month and a higher-end Mac mini at some point,” reads the newsletter. “The M1X has been developed in two variations: both with 10 CPU cores (eight high-performance and two high-efficiency) and either 16 or 32 graphics cores.”

Regarding Apple’s other Macs, Gurman claims that the company is working on a high-performance processor for a future Mac Pro, as well as an M2 for the MacBook Air, iMac, and lower-end MacBook Pro models.

The updated M1X MacBook Pro is rumoured to have an SD card slot, an HDMI port and MagSafe compatibility with an entirely new design with minimal bezels.

Source: Bloomberg

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Keynote, Pages and Numbers receive significant feature updates

Update ‘Version 11.2’ to Apple’s suite of iWork applications has dropped with significant feature additions to Keynote, Pages and Numbers for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Starting with Keynote, users can now add live video directly to their presentation, allowing you to appear alongside the content you’re showing across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Further, you can also adjust your video feed by resizing it or customize its appearance with the new masks, frames, drop shadows, and reflection add-ons.

You can also add feeds from several external cameras and share a linked iPhone or iPad screen with the Mac version of Keynote, similar to what Skype is doing with its TwinCam feature. Keynote has gained a new multi-presenter feature that allows anybody to control a shared presentation remotely and change slides using a Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Apple has also optimized the Pages experience on iOS. The Screen View feature on Pages now organizes text, pictures and other document elements into a single-column view with increased text sizes and images sized to fit your phone’s screen.

Further, tables can now be scrolled horizontally, and users can continue to edit documents as usual when Screen View is enabled. There’s no need to configure the feature, and it works with all word processing documents.

Lastly, you can turn off Screen View to view the actual layout of the document before sharing or printing it.

Apple has also introduced pivot tables for Numbers so that “users can quickly summarize, group, and rearrange data to identify and analyze patterns and trends.” You can choose what data to include and decide how to group or summarize it.

Users can use smart charts to visualize pivot tables, share the data with others all while keeping the source data private, and import and export pivot tables to and from Microsoft Excel.

Numbers has also gained new Radar Charts that, according to Apple, will make it easy for users to “visually compare multiple variables with similarities shown as overlapping areas, allowing differences and outliers to really stand out.”

Across all the apps, Apple’s new translation tools now work with Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, allowing users to immediately read a translation, hear it out loud, and replace the selected text with the translated text.

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Rihanna teams with MAC for make-up line

Rihanna will release her own MAC collection.

The ‘Stay’ singer – who recently unveiled her first fashion line for British high street chain River Island – has teamed up with the luxury cosmetics brand to release four collections over the course of the year under the name RiRi [Hearts] MAC.

She told WWD: "When you think of make-up, the brand that pops into your mind – for something legit – is MAC. Whatever colour you want, it’s like ‘Let’s go to MAC.’

"I’ve been using MAC on tour for such a long time it was a natural fit for me. I have always loved make-up, and I always said that if I do it, I want to do it with a credible brand."

Rihanna’s first release with MAC will be a new spin on the company’s Ruby Woo red lipstick – a favourite of the 25-year-old singer’s – which will be titled RiRi Woo. The lipstick’s release will coincide with the singer’s Diamonds World Tour concerts on May 4 and 5 in New York City, with a pop-up stall celebrating the launch at her concert in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

John Demsey of MAC’s parent company Estee Lauder insisted Rihanna will be a "long-term" collaborator with the brand.

He said: "This was not a front. This is a true, organic collaboration based on mutual admiration and respect. These four collections are like four tracks on a Rihanna compilation.

"Each one has its own vibe, look, special makeup packaging and flavor. This is really the convergence of pop culture, fast fashion, and iconic style and makeup."

Following the release of RiRi Woo, a second collection will go on sale in the summer, followed by a fall collection and a fourth collection to tie in with the Christmas season.

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MAC’s Marilyn Monroe collection

MAC Cosmetics are paying tribute to Marilyn Monroe with a new make-up collection.

The look of the iconic beauty – who was recently portrayed by Michelle Williams in movie ‘My Week with Marilyn’ – will be represented by a limited edition range including 30 custom-designed items priced from $15 to $27.

Among the pieces will by various eye shadow shades, lipsticks, nail polishes and eyeliners, and the range will be launched across the world in October.

MAC is well known for their collaborative pieces, with Nicki Minaj, Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga all previously working with them.

‘Super Bass’ singer Nicki unveiled a MAC Viva Glam lipstick in support of AIDS prevention and awareness last week, and she admitted she was delighted to be able to work with the brand.

She said: ”When I was chosen by MAC Cosmetics to be the next Viva Glam spokesperson, I wanted to hug everyone at MAC for giving me this opportunity. I’ve always wanted to be a Viva Glam girl.

”What’s important about Viva Glam to me is that every cent goes to the MAC Aids Fund. It’s bringing awareness to my culture. That’s why I’m really, really excited about this campaign.”
 

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Daphne Guinness launches MAC capsule collection

U.K. artist Daphne Guinness has provided a sneak peek of her new collaboration with MAC cosmetics: a 21-piece capsule collection featuring eye shadows, blushes, lipsticks and nail polish, reports Coco Perez.

Although the products won’t arrive in stores until December 26, MAC has already debuted images of the entire range, in "colors as sophisticated, authentic and refined as Daphne herself," the company said in a statement.

"When we first started working on colors, [Guinness] pulled a tiny watercolor case out of her handbag and, using her own saliva, began mixing colors immediately!" added Senior Vice-President James Gager.

To create such a unique range of colors, Guinness drew inspiration from some unusual sources, such as "the whispered luxury of an antique Chinese porcelain vase," "pigeon’s blood" and "how the intricate wings of a butterfly resemble the images of deepest space."

Heiress to the brewing company fortune, Guinness also has a long history of thinking outside the box when it comes to cosmetics, beginning from when she was a child: "I tried to make myself look Japanese… But instead of makeup I would use watercolors or acrylics or anything I could get my hands on. Sometimes I would paint pictures on my face, on my eyelids or whatnot."

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The Ricky & Nicki Viva Glam campaign

MAC beauty brand has unveiled the latest advertising campaign for its fundraising Viva Glam line of products yesterday (November 17), featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj, 28, and Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, 39, reports the Daily Mail.

Minaj is best known for her smash hit Super Bass, while Martin is famous for Livin’ la Vida Loca, which reached number one in many countries around the world.

Photographed by David LaChapelle, the duo is surrounded by a blaze of pop art color. Minaj kneels provocatively on a an electric blue motorcycle and wears a hot pink vinyl or pleather dress with plunging neckline, while Latin singer Martin appears to be flexing his tattooed biceps as he hefts an oversized phallic-shaped MAC lipstick wand.

The two $14 lipsticks – both in shades of pink – are called Viva Glam Ricky and Viva Glam Nicki, and will go on sale in February, with 100 per cent of the sale price of each product donated to help fight HIV and AIDS.

MAC Viva Glam is a social initiative in which 100 percent of the purchase price of any Viva Glam product goes to the M.A.C. Aids Fund, which supports community organizations providing direct services to people living with AIDS. So far, the campaign has raised more than $200 million for HIV-AIDS-related causes since launching in 1994.

The two pop stars have taken over the fundraising duties from 2010 Viva Glam poster girl Lady Gaga, who followed in the footsteps of Cyndi Lauper, Naomi Campbell, Missy Elliot, Mary J Blige, Christina Aguilera, and Fergie.

Last year Minaj collaborated with the make-up brand to launch a Pink Friday bubble-gum pink lipstick, named after the rap artist’s platinum-selling debut album.

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The Ricky & Nicki Viva Glam campaign

MAC beauty brand has unveiled the latest advertising campaign for its fundraising Viva Glam line of products yesterday (November 17), featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj, 28, and Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, 39, reports the Daily Mail.

Minaj is best known for her smash hit Super Bass, while Martin is famous for Livin’ la Vida Loca, which reached number one in many countries around the world.

Photographed by David LaChapelle, the duo is surrounded by a blaze of pop art color. Minaj kneels provocatively on a an electric blue motorcycle and wears a hot pink vinyl or pleather dress with plunging neckline, while Latin singer Martin appears to be flexing his tattooed biceps as he hefts an oversized phallic-shaped MAC lipstick wand.

The two $14 lipsticks – both in shades of pink – are called Viva Glam Ricky and Viva Glam Nicki, and will go on sale in February, with 100 per cent of the sale price of each product donated to help fight HIV and AIDS.

MAC Viva Glam is a social initiative in which 100 percent of the purchase price of any Viva Glam product goes to the M.A.C. Aids Fund, which supports community organizations providing direct services to people living with AIDS. So far, the campaign has raised more than $200 million for HIV-AIDS-related causes since launching in 1994.

The two pop stars have taken over the fundraising duties from 2010 Viva Glam poster girl Lady Gaga, who followed in the footsteps of Cyndi Lauper, Naomi Campbell, Missy Elliot, Mary J Blige, Christina Aguilera, and Fergie.

Last year Minaj collaborated with the make-up brand to launch a Pink Friday bubble-gum pink lipstick, named after the rap artist’s platinum-selling debut album.

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Artist Cindy Sherman partners with MAC

Conceptual artist and film director Cindy Sherman has teamed up with MAC cosmetics to create a new line of makeup, done in her own unusual and unique style, reports The Guardian.

While the brightly-hued products are quite remarkable in and of themselves, Sherman has also created and stars in three stunning print images to promote the new line.

"In the campaign we’ve longed forever to conceive, Cindy Sherman for MAC created three characters using three different color stories," the company explained in a release.

"With the help of props, makeup, prosthetics, wigs and sets, artist Cindy Sherman embodies this Power of Transformation – from off-kilter Hitchcock heroine to fresh corpse, Caravaggio portrait to Park Avenue plastic surgery maven – all elaborate exercises in trying on different personas."

Sherman uses the makeup to transform herself into these three personas: in one, she has the heavily-lidded eyes and overly-Botoxed lips of a Manhattan socialite; in another, she’s dressed up as an actual clown, a smile painted on over her frown; in the third, her overly-rouged cheeks clash with her pale complexion, a thin smile stretched across her features.

While most cosmetics lines use celebrities and supermodels to show the beautifying effects of their makeup, MAC has always opted for a slightly more unusual route. The company’s products were initially specifically designed for professional make-up artists, but are now sold to consumers worldwide. Previous spokespeople include Lady Gaga, drag queen RuPaul, and Elton John.

The new collection will be available in stores starting in September. Products are expected to retail between $14.50 for lipstick to $38 for an eyeshadow four-color quad.

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MAC goth?

U.K. designer Gareth Pugh – best known for his dark, gothic runway looks – has partnered with the popular, high-end MAC cosmetics to create an entirely new line, reports Vogue.

Details about the new Pugh collection are still scarce on the ground, but if it’s anything like the designer’s runway collections, the makeup will feature a fairly monochrome palette, heavy on the black, white and grey.

Pugh and MAC have a long-standing history, with the designer using the brand in his shows for several years now. In spring 2010, his Goddess from the Grave show used MAC’s Micronized Airbrush Foundation in black and white to create the deathly grey complexion on the models.

With a penchant for designing shocking looks that are more costume than wearable fashion, Pugh admits he has not always been focused on the commercial aspect of the industry.

"If you, as a fashion designer, you do shows but you don’t sell, it kind of becomes a bit of a vanity project," said the designer.

"You know, that’s kind of how I started and that’s how I got going but kind of a more mature point-of-view: it needs to obviously translate into things that sell and that’s a new challenge for me."

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Lady Gaga returns as face of MAC

Theatrical pop star Lady Gaga has partnered once again with MAC as the face of their Viva Glam fundraising cosmetics line, reports Coco Perez.

This year, Gaga goes girly, with ads showing the usually flamboyant singer in something a little more subdued. With long blonde hair and heavy eyeliner, she stands bathed in a pink glow of light, clutching a collection of jewels. The new Lady Gaga lipstick will be available in North America on February 17, and goes on sale internationally in March.

Last year’s ads, by contrast, saw her camping it up with ’80s pop star Cyndi Lauper for the Viva Glam 2010 campaign. The two blonde singers, each with their own signature lipstick colour, posed in lingerie and playing with oversized props in front of a red and white striped wall.

The Viva Glam line was established by MAC in 1994, with all proceeds going to the M•A•C AIDS Fund, which helps men, women and children suffering from AIDS.

Over the years, Viva Glam has attracted a number of high-profile spokespersons, including Ru Paul as the inaugural face of the brand, kd lang, Elton John, Mary J. Blige, Lil’ Kim, Shirley Manson, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Boy George, Pamela Anderson, Eve and Fergie.

MAC Cosmetics was founded in Toronto in 1984 and had expanded into the U.S. by 1991. Although originally intended only for make-up artists, it has become popular with consumers.