Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Monday, August 23rd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Mark Germin says when a new high-end M1X Mac mini might be coming, the USDC stable coin

looks to get right with the accounting gods. Visa buys a crypto-punk.

Did Jiffy pay dividends to its owners to lower its value for Facebook

to acquire it?

And do we now know the real reason why only fans is attempting to abandon porn?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Mark Germin is reporting that a high-end M1X Mac mini with an updated design

and possibly more ports than the current

m1 Mac Mini should replace the Intel model of the Mac Mini in the next several

months quoting Mac Rumors. This presumably means the new Mac mini may launch

alongside the redesigned 14 and 16 inch Macbook pros this fall, as German writes

quote, last fall as part of its trio of initial Macs to transition over to Apple Silicon

Chips, the company updated the older Mac Mini design with the M1 processor.

The Mac Mini is used for more basic tasks like video streaming, but many people use it as a software

development machine as a server or for their video editing needs.

Apple knows that, so it kept the Intel model around.

Well, expect that to go away in the next several months

with a high-end M1X Mac Mini.

It will have an updated design

and more ports than the current model, end quote.

Apple Leaker John Prosser in May shared renders of what the upcoming Mac Mini may look like, and according to those renders, allegedly based on images from internal Apple sources, the new Mac Mini will feature a plexiglass top and a magnetic power port.

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