Apple is researching keyboards with small displays on the keys to dynamically change the label on each key, according to a newly-granted patent filing. From a report: The filing is titled “Electronic devices having keys with coherent fiber bundles” and was granted to Apple by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the final patent day of this year. The patent…
Tag: Keyboards
IT’S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
bobstreo informs us that it’s CAPS LOCK DAY and shares an excerpt about its history: Caps Lock Day first came to pass in the year 2000, when Derek Arnold of Iowa decided that he, like so many other internet users, had simply had enough of people using all caps to emphasize themselves on the web. So he created Caps Lock Day…
Verizon Has Turned To Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI To Automate Phone Calls
Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its customer-service phone calls and chatbot conversations. The Register reports: The Contact Center AI technology will, we’re told, use natural-language recognition to transcribe on-the-fly customers as they talk down the line. This speech-to-text output will be fed into Dialogflow, a platform that parses the text and generates responses in real-time….
Apple Announces New 13-inch MacBook Pro With Magic Keyboard
Sooner than expected, Apple has announced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Magic Keyboard. It features optional Intel 10th Gen processors and starts at $1,299. In one sense, it is a minor spec-bump upgrade for the existing lineup of 13-inch MacBook Pros. But it also represents the end of an era: Apple no longer sells any new laptops with the…
Surface Go 2, Featuring Larger 10.5-inch Display and Thinner Bezels, To Launch Next Month
Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 is right around the corner. While nothing is set in stone, Windows Central reported Monday that the product could be announced sometime in May. From a report: Thanks to leaked benchmarks, which I’ve been able to confirm via my own sources, we already know everything about the CPU, RAM, and storage options inside the Surface Go 2….
Cringely Predicts 2020 Will See ‘the Death of IT’
Long-time technology pundit Robert Cringely writes:
IT — Information Technology — grew out of something we called MIS — Management Information Systems — but both meant a kid in a white shirt who brought you a new keyboard when yours broke. Well, the kid is now gone, sent home with everyone else, and that kid isn’t coming back… ever. IT is near…
iFixit MacBook Air Teardown Finds More Repairable Than Predecessor
iFixit tore apart the updated MacBook Air and found that Apple made a few changes making for a more repairable notebook than the last generation. All in all, the new 2020 MacBook Air got a 4/10 repairability score from iFixit, which is one point higher than the previous-gen model which scored 3/10. 9to5Mac reports: iFixit highlights in its full teardown that…
Apple To Launch MacBooks With All-New Design In Mid 2021
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will launch MacBook models with an all-new design in the second or third quarter of 2021, but did not indicate whether these will be Pro or Air models. As MacRumors points out, “The last significant redesign of the MacBook Pro occurred in October 2016, while the MacBook Air received a major redesign in October…
Apple Will Release a Trackpad For the iPad Alongside New Pro Models, Report Claims
According to a report from The Information, Apple plans to introduce a trackpad-equipped keyboard attachment for the iPad Pro alongside its new iPad Pro models sometime this year. Ars Technica reports: This would make Apple’s iPad Pro compete more directly with Microsoft’s Surface lineup, with 2-in-1 convertible laptops, and with various Chrome OS devices. Apple’s iPad has sold well in the…
Apple Fails To Stop Class Action Lawsuit Over MacBook Butterfly Keyboards
Mark Wilson quotes BetaNews: Apple has failed in an attempt to block a class action lawsuit being brought against it by a customer who claimed the company concealed the problematic nature of the butterfly keyboard design used in MacBooks. The proposed lawsuit not only alleges that Apple concealed the fact that MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air keyboards were prone to…