A champion of the yak as an emblem of the Tibetan highlands brings the spirit of the animal to a Beijing museum, Wang Kaihao reports. On China's online social networks, Wu Yuchu called himself Yagebo, which means old yak in Tibetan. An ...
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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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So, deal with it: there's no new MacBook Air. But Apple really, really wants you to consider the cheapest MacBook Pro as your alternative. There's just one problem: it costs $1,499. You do get 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM in that ...
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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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Some have dissed the iPhone 7 for being too similar to the 6S. But a new patent shows that Apple may have an interesting direction for a future iPhone. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple on Tuesday for a bendable ...
It must have seemed a good idea at the time. Perhaps it still does. No, I'm not talking about the new MacBook Pro. I'm talking about Razer's tweet about the MacBook Pro. The gaming computer company thought it amusing to mock the fact ...
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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'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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Recent political thought has shown us that one of the best ways of selling is to say it loud, say it extravagantly and people will believe you. The truth, in all this, can hang. It's all about the simple words and the uplift. Apple ...
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