One of Apple’s greatest strengths has always been its obsessive attention to detail. Whether it’s almost-mythical stories about Steve Jobs picking fonts, or Apple’s demand for hardware free of unsightly seams, it’s often these little things that add up to make its customers feel … | Continue reading
Want the new MacBook Pro? Not so fast. Microsoft is hoping to sway you towards a Surface Pro or Surface Book instead. Mere hours after Apple’s keynote announcement, Microsoft made its own announcement: Anyone in the U.S. can trade in their MacBook Air or MacBook Pro at the Micros … | Continue reading
Faraday Future, the California-based electric car company that wants to compete with Tesla, just released a short, 15-second clip of its first production car in action. And unlike the bonkers, 1,000-horsepower concept racecar it showed off at CES earlier this year, this one looks … | Continue reading
Apple announced three new MacBook Pros today — two with the new Touch Bar, one with normal function keys — and a slightly updated 13-inch MacBook Air. But plenty of other Macs were left out of Apple’s rather sparse October 27 event, despite rumors suggesting otherwise. Let us cou … | Continue reading
Mozilla has been hard at work rolling out Electrolysis to bring the benefits of a multiprocess architecture to Firefox users for quite some time. Though Mozilla has put a large amount of its resources into the development of Electrolysis, the company has remained consistent about … | Continue reading
Mobile network provider Giffgaff is hosting a one-day Halloween hair and make up salon in London. | Continue reading
Apple hosted its fourth event of the year today in Cupertino, California to feed some computer updates to its loyal followers. The world’s most valuable company had one tough act to follow after Microsoft introduced Surface Studio yesterday; however, it managed to pull through. “ … | Continue reading
Apple’s keynote today focused on the Mac and the company's vision idea for the future of TV. New MacBook Pros are coming, including one that’s thinner than the Macbook Air, as is a new feature called the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar replaces the function keys and adjusts to the softw … | Continue reading
Mobile game development at a big publisher has as much turnover and volatility as traditional gaming. King, which is now a subsidiary of Activision, has closed down Singapore-based developer Nonstop Games. King acquired the studio in 2014 following the success of the Warcraft-lik … | Continue reading
It’s October 27th, 2016, and Vine is being given its last rites. Twitter made the announcement today that it would be shutting down the video platform’s mobile app in the coming months, although its website will remain online. The news triggered an impromptu memorial service on T … | Continue reading
That record scratch you just heard came from thousands of designers and R&D specialists who suddenly have to remake 3D models of laptops, phones, and desktops. That sigh is coming from hundreds of programmers stepping up their new interfaces and that ripping noise is myriad press … | Continue reading
Apple just announced a lineup of three new MacBook Pro laptops, each of which is decked out with four (four!) USB Type-C ports. And as is the case with all things Apple these days, you know what that means — you’re going to need more dongles. More specifically, you now need purch … | Continue reading
Apple has unveiled the new MacBook Pro and the most interesting part of it by far is the Touch Bar — a strip of touch-sensitive, context-aware display that replaces the function keys above the keyboard. Buttons on the Touch Bar change depending on the software you're using, so th … | Continue reading
I just got a chance to play with Apple’s new TV app on the Apple TV, which is... just called TV. It’s more of a second homescreen than an app, really — when you open it up you see a bunch of shows and movies that you can watch based on the video services you’ve subscribed to eith … | Continue reading
Google today announced it is ending support for its Google Drive desktop app for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003 on January 1, 2017. If you’re still on one of these platforms and want to keep using “Google Drive for Mac/PC,” the company recommends upgrading you … | Continue reading
At first glance, it looks an awful lot like the same MacBook Pro we’ve become accustom to seeing over the last several years. The TrackPad is the first indication that something’s different here. It’s huge. Twice as big as the last version, and thankfully now carrying the Force T … | Continue reading
The 11.6-inch MacBook Air, once priced at $899, is no more. After unveiling new MacBook Pros at an event in Cupertino, California today, Apple trimmed its MacBook Air line. Going forward, the company will only sell its existing 13.3-inch MacBook Air, with a slight change: All 13. … | Continue reading
The MacBook Pro sorely needed an upgrade, but so did the MacBook Air, Apple’s original ultra-thin laptop, which never ever got the Retina screen treatment. Well, it was not meant to be. At today’s “Hello World” event, Apple’s Phil Schiller essentially killed off the Air by showi … | Continue reading
GUEST: I was shocked to read today that IBM and Slack are partnering so that Slack can use Watson to improve their Slackbot’s cognitive capabilities. It seemed like Slack may be outsourcing the one thing that could become their most valuable strength. Except as I thought about it … | Continue reading
The new MacBook Pro is here — literally available for preorder today — and I’ve just tried it. The best thing I can say about is simple: everything about it looks and feels so good I almost didn’t believe it.We’ll start with the marquee feature, the Touch Bar. What you might not … | Continue reading
Less than two weeks from election day, the so-called "added-value" of Donald Trump's name on a product, including anything from a building to a clothing item, has fallen since the release of a lewd 2005 video and multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, which Trump has refuted. … | Continue reading
Broken hearts, blind rage, and calls to follow them on YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. That’s how Vine stars are coping with the news that Twitter will shut down the Vine app in the coming months. At least since Twitter will let people download their Vines, most of the content … | Continue reading
The CME Group is launching two previously announced bitcoin price benchmarks next month.Source | Continue reading
Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties — just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been used for many purposes — food, fuel and textiles among them — for tens of thousands of years. Unli … | Continue reading
Im Vorfeld der heutigen Apple-Pressekonferenz war eine der großen Fragen: Wie geht es weiter mit dem MacBook Air? Schickt Apple das beliebte Laptop in Rente? Wie passt das zukünftige Lineup zusammen, konzeptionell und preislich?Das Air... | Continue reading
Today, The Wrap released a report confirming that the upcoming film God Particle — directed by Julius Onah and produced by J.J. Abrams — is actually the next entry in the Cloverfield series. God Particle won’t be the last in the franchise, either. According to The Wrap, Abrams an … | Continue reading
Apple just announced a new generation of MacBook Pro laptops, which means it's probably time to stop selling the prior range. Or at least the the one before it. Yes, the 13-inch MacBook Pro from June 2012, which made up for its lack of Retina display with an optical disc drive an … | Continue reading
Apple seems to have scrubbed the 11-inch MacBook Air from all of its online stores following its MacBook Pro presentation earlier today, and that the death of the 11-inch MacBook Air is official. At the event, Apple unveiled a series of new laptops, also including a thinner and m … | Continue reading
Surprise, the MacBook Air is still alive! The new MacBook Air is Apple’s new cheap laptop. While everybody thought the 12-inch retina MacBook was going to replace the MacBook Air, it’s not going to be the case just yet. Apple just updated the MacBook Air page on its website after … | Continue reading
Wer gar keine Touchscreen-Leiste auf seinem MacBook will, auf TouchID verzichten kann oder nicht bereit ist, den Aufpreis zu zahlen, für den hält Apple ein 13"-Einsteigermodell der neuen Pro-Reihe bereits. Der Laptop ist ab Werk mit einem... | Continue reading
Alongside the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Apple just introduced a third new MacBook Pro model that's something of an unofficial successor to the MacBook Air. The company plans to continue selling its 13-inch Air, Phil Schiller said, but this specific MacBook Pro will likely b … | Continue reading
Sady Paulson bobs her head skillfully from side-to-side, gently hitting the red and yellow buttons fixed to her wheelchair's headrest. Her head swings fluidly in a concentrated pattern: Left, left, right, left, right, left.As she taps the buttons, she carefully selects a clip of … | Continue reading
If you want the best external monitor for the new MacBook Pro, Apple says your best bet is a new 5K display from LG. The iPhone-maker unveiled the monitor onstage at its Mac event today, saying it had worked closely with LG to make the screen a perfect match for the Pro. They may … | Continue reading
The new Macbook Pro swaps out the USB ports, HDMI port, and power port of previous models for four Thunderbolt 3 ports that can serve those purposes and others. But one classic port remains: the headphone jack.Apple has been broadly criticized for removing the standard headphone … | Continue reading
Apple has included a surprising new chip in its new MacBook Pro. Onstage at the company’s Fall event, Apple’s Phil Schiller revealed a new T1 chip, manufactured by Apple, that will bring the Secure Enclave on the new generation of laptops. iPhones and iPads have included Secure E … | Continue reading
NASA now has all the science data that the New Horizons spacecraft gathered of Pluto and its moons over a year ago. Early in the morning on October 25th, the vehicle sent back the last bit of the more than 50 gigabits of information it collected during its flyby of Pluto in July … | Continue reading
Apple just changed the MacBook Pro — and keyboard design — in a big way. The new signature feature of Apple's high-end laptops is a "Touch Bar" in place of the function keys. The Touch Bar's virtual keys can morph to match the app you're using, which may speed up certain tasks... … | Continue reading
Asana co-founder and head of product Justin Rosenstein discussed the political views of his controversial investor and former board member Peter Thiel today at the Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco.Asana isn’t the only company to face questions about its continued relati … | Continue reading
The third season of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on October 21st. It's the first season of the show produced by Netflix, after two three-episode series and a s … | Continue reading
At the Apple press conference this afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a brief update on the state of the Apple TV app ecosystem. Today, the app store has grown to include 8,000 apps, the exec said, 2,000 of which are games. A year ago, the store had just 1,000 apps, which indicat … | Continue reading
Apple just unveiled the new MacBook Pro. “It is the new gold standard in notebook computers,” Apple’s SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller said. And in particular, Apple replace the function row on the keyboard with a touch screen. Based on the demos, this touch screen seems to be quit … | Continue reading
A mystery began unfolding at a correctional facility in Wyoming in the hours after lunch on October 11th, 2015. Inmates and staff became suddenly ill. Their stomachs cramped. They had gas, bloating, diarrhea, and burping. Some vomited. At the time, there were 254 inmates and 75 s … | Continue reading
Apple has added the Touch Bar to the new MacBook Pro the company announced during an event today. The new Touch Bar, which leaked out two days ago, replaces the row of keys and will allow app-specific commands to be displayed on the keyboard.For example, when you open Mail, the T … | Continue reading
At an event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, today, Apple unveiled the latest generation of the MacBook Pro, its laptop for power users. The big deal about this version is the addition of a secondary display and integrated Touch ID fingerprint scanner just above the … | Continue reading
Four years after dropping the DVD drive and switching to Retina displays, Apple's finally redesigned the MacBook Pros.The brand new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros are even thinner and lighter than before. The 13-inch MacBook Pro weighs 3 pounds and the 15-inch weighs 4 pounds. The … | Continue reading
The European Commission’s newly minted data-sharing arrangement with the US — the EU-US Privacy Shield — is facing a legal challenge on privacy grounds. Read More | Continue reading
Oh MacBook Pro, how we’ve missed you. It’s been four long years since Apple issued the last major overhaul to its high-end laptop line. Four years of waiting for some big announcement from the company, as laptop hinges loosen, trackpads go wonky, the screen laminent starts to los … | Continue reading
It will come as no surprise, but like most things in life, conversion optimization will benefit from a strong strategic approach. This generally includes aligning your goals and resources to build out a roadmap, or at least a framework/process, for your experiments. Much like in … | Continue reading