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iFixit 16-inch MacBook Pro teardown published, highlights “lid angle sensor” on new notebook

This is pretty nifty. Within iFixit’s full teardown of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, the company located new features such as a new thermal architecture and a new “lid angle sensor” that presumably monitors the opening and closing of the notebook and the precise position of the lid.  The report also noted a magnet embedded […]

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Apple granted 37 patents in one day, descriptions could point towards wraparound display, smart fabrics, multi-device charging unit

It was a huge day for Apple patents, the company being granted 37 of them on Tuesday from devices with a feature that could make the “scroll speed proportionate to tilt angle” to others relating to a “multi-device charging” and “smart fabric”/ Which, by anyone’s estimate, is a whole lot of patents. The main takeaway […]

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MacBook Pro, backpack may have saved passenger’s life in Fort Lauderdale shooting spree

A MacBook Pro inside a backpack might have saved a passenger’s life in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting this afternoon that left five dead and eight wounded. “The backpack saved my life,” Steve Frappier said, speaking on CNN’s “AC360.” “[I] dropped and the backpack was still on my back and I was turned in such […]

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iFixit tears down Apple Pencil, posts findings

The coolest of felines at iFixit have torn down the Apple Pencil and found some amazing stuff inside. The crew, which had to resort to opening the device with a small circular saw and breaking a flex cable in the process, found that the plastic outer casing reveals a metal inner one. The tip contains […]