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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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 ...
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 ...
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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If you want to save a few bucks on a not-exactly-new iPhone, Apple has a new option for you: refurbished models. The company has long sold refurbished Macs, but iPhones now are on Apple's refurbished products site, too, a change MacRumors ...
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The Apple TV box has only gotten better since its debut in 2015, with thousands of new apps and plenty of usability improvements via software updates. Even more improvements -- single sign-on for some cable and satellite providers and the ...
The iPhone 7 is easily one of the best phones of 2016. It delivers peppy performance, more storage capacity than its predecessors, water resistance, a resilient battery, exceptional cameras (especially the iPhone 7 Plus model) and a host of ...
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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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When Adobe Systems launched Lightroom for phones and tablets, it was a pale reflection of the version for Windows and Mac. It's been gradually improving, but an overhaul Thursday brings the mobile app much closer to the PC version of the ...
Red could be the new jet black if the latest rumor about a bright new color for Apple's 2017 iPhone turns out to be true. Apple's lineup of flagship phones typically plays it safe, with white, blacks and mellow metallics. Adding red to ...
When Dean Hudson was 12 years old, he'd bribe his brothers and sisters to read computer manuals to him. Hudson's vision was muddled by glaucoma, and he wanted to learn how to code on the computer his dad brought home. "At that age, I'd ...
My heart pirouetted and then skipped right out of my shirt. I don't always know genius when I see it, but when I heard that Tinder was bringing out an Apple TV app, I felt sure this was the breakthrough that so many (didn't know they) ...
Get ready for a wild 2017 when it comes to the world of wireless. From the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States to ever-growing hype around 5G wireless technology, the signs of change are unmistakable. It could ...
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If I asked you to tell me about all the tech ads you've seen this year, I wonder how many you'd remember at all. Our attention spans are even shorter than our tempers these days. We block ads. We mute them. We disdain them. How many ads, ...
When the European Union slapped Apple with a $14.5 billion tax fee in August, CEO Tim Cook called it "political crap." This week, the tech behemoth is fighting back in the form of an official appeal. "Apple is not an outlier in any ...