A MacBook doesn’t need to be open to be useful. Connected to an external display, it can run while it’s closed and act like a Mac Mini. By itself, a MacBook can run when closed with the help of a third-party app. You may want to do this so you can tote your MacBook from …
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This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. David Grissam was worried he’d have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn’t work …
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Microsoft and Apple faced off with different ideas of the creative computing future last week, and in many ways Microsoft looked like more of the innovator. The new wheel-like Surface Dial, a larger Surface Studio touchscreen computer, an improved Surface Book, and a bold attack strategy regarding affordable virtual-reality headsets as a patient build-up to a broader mixed reality future …
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One word could have made all the difference. “Air,” instead of “Pro.” If Apple had introduced a new MacBook Air last week, the company wouldn’t be facing down a mob of angry creative professionals. It might not have Apple software developers questioning whether the company has lost its way. Because the new MacBook Pro basically is a MacBook Air — …
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Halloween is creeping, oozing and slithering all over social media. Even the 2016 presidential election is taking a backseat to the holiday, despite the October Surprise that’s haunting Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Social Cues is your go-to guide on what’s trending across Facebook and Twitter each morning. Here’s what people on social media are talking about this Monday morning: Happy Halloween: …
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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 Microsoft Surface Studio and Surface Book will be incredibly popular computers. While the pen-equipped transforming computers …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s new mainstream MacBook Pro 1:54 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 them embedded by default. Even your charging cable …
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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 Chrome touch computers have flooded the world for years, now. There are tablets. There are phones. …
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Apple unveiled a swish new MacBook Pro on Thursday that came complete with a hefty price tag of $1,799. There’s nothing unusual about high prices on Apple’s newest, most sophisticated tech. But if the MacBook seems expensive to Americans, it’s worse for customers in the UK where it costs £1,749 — equal to $2,121. More unusual is what happened to …
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Apple’s new Touch Bar took over social media on Friday morning. The MacBook Pro and Apple’s event that introduced it are trending across Facebook and Twitter, as users argue over whether the new Touch Bar feature should have replaced the function key. Twitter users are also getting into the Halloween spirit — and ruminating on what to do if they’ll …
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