The glass on your Apple devices could be on the verge of becoming that much stronger. Apple announced that the company has put $200 million of its $1 billion U.S. manufacturing fund into Corning’s Harrodsburg, Kentucky glass-making plant. Corning has manufactured the glass that Apple has used in iPhones and iPads since day one.
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The cool cats at iFixit have finished their teardown of the new 13-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro and discovered some neat differences when compared with the MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar. First, both 13-inch models have the exact same dimensions, but the Touch Bar machine weighs 20 grams less, which iFixit puts down to […]
Back in 2015, Corning announced that it was working on “Project Phire”, a new material that combines the strength of Gorilla Glass with the scratch-resistance of sapphire. On tuesday, the company announced that the result of that project is ready to launch. Now called “Gorilla Glass SR+,” Corning’s latest product is a composite material for […]
If you were wondering what a purported image of the new front panel to the next-gen iPhone might look like, it goes a bit like this: According to French web site Nowhereelse.fr, the front panel image was shared by a source close to the story who also said that the iPhone parts are currently in […]
The current rumor has it that the Apple Watch 2 will look pretty much the same but run for a longer period of time. And that’s a decent thing. Apple’s second-generation Watch is unlikely to see any external changes, a Thursday morning report from South Korea suggests, with the company instead focusing on tightening up […]