Apple on Thursday revealed its newest MacBook Pro laptop, which includes a new interactive, customizable touch strip above the keyboard called Touch Bar. "The Mac is more than a product to us," CEO Tim Cook told the crowd at the Town Hall ...
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All the ports are both Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C Think of the USB-C connector kind of like a duplex. It has a USB-side and a Thunderbolt 3-side. Thunderbolt 3 allows you to connect your Mac to displays, transfer data quickly between ...
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Sure, Apple could make software that powers both Macs and iPads. Yes, it could put touchscreens in its laptops. And yeah, it could make a hybrid device that's both a tablet and a notebook. But that would be taking the easy route. At ...
You're probably wondering if the new MacBook Pro's fancy new secondary screen will eat away at the laptop's battery life. We are, too. But I wouldn't worry -- it's an OLED screen, and OLED screen technology can be surprisingly efficient ...
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"We are the company that stands for the builders, the makers, the creators." Sounds like a thing Apple might say, no? But those are the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella -- the guy who just ate Apple's lunch. I'm not saying the new ...
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1. It cuts out the middleman. The TV app is a basically a "meta-app" -- a one-stop shop for all of the supported video apps on your Apple device. The best part of it is the top line of the main Watch Now page, called Up Next. It lists ...
Someday we'll live in a truly wireless future, where everything is interconnected. Speeds will be so fast -- 5G and WiGig -- and the chipsets so cheap and plentiful that everything from your coffee maker to your garage door opener will have ...
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The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there's a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don't have touch. At this point, they're the outliers in the computing world. Windows and ...
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Not so long ago, I sat in a meeting with executives from a very famous company. They all came in with their bright, new, shiny MacBooks, ready to connect their machines to a projector. Their dongles dangled from their hands, as they ...
Apple TV single sign-on became available Thursday night to those with access to the tvOS 10.1 and 10.2 betas. Apple revealed the single sign-on feature in June, but when tvOS was released the feature was nowhere to be found. Single ...
Apple's fingerprint tech, Touch ID, is no longer limited to its iOS devices. The new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar features a Touch ID reader embedded in the power button, just above the Delete key. Using Touch ID, you can do things like ...
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Words can come back to haunt you. Sometimes, they even slap you about the chops while sniggering: "Heh, heh, heh." And so it is that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has taken some of Tim Cook's words and gently wafted them right back at ...
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.Apple's long-awaited update to the popular MacBook Pro series laptops was met with mixed reactions. While the 13- and 15-inch models come with thinner, lighter chassis, a much larger trackpad, improved specifications and four USB-C ports, ...
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Donald Trump has a lot of talking to do these days. It's heartening, then, that he's good at it. During his highly informative meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday -- happily live-tweeted by Times journalists -- Trump touched on ...
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Those hoping for another peep under the hood of Apple's mysterious car project are in luck. It's only a peep though. In a November letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a US government agency that sets and enforces ...
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