Computers

As planned, today Donald Trump took a tour of an Apple manufacturing facility in Texas alongside CEO Tim Cook. While impeachment hearings continued in D.C., the president tweeted that “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.” While Apple did claim in September that exemptions from tariffs the Trump Administration…

Apple is determined to win as as many tariff exemptions as it can, it seems. The White House has confirmed that President Trump will visit Apple’s Mac Pro factory in Austin, Texas on November 20th, backing up rumors of an impending tour. It’s not clear if Tim Cook or other Apple executives will be present (we’ve asked Apple for details), but it wouldn’t be surprising…

Nreal captured plenty of attention with the January reveal of its smartphone-tethered Light AR glasses for consumers, and now Lenovo has revealed a similarly small alternative targeted at PC business users. While these glasses won’t be confused with sunglasses, the Lenovo AR Concept Glasses are small enough to carry anywhere and wear — a bit awkwardly — in public, where the company expects…

The rumors are true: Apple has made a 16-inch MacBook Pro. To answer some of your likeliest questions: Yes, it’s fast; no, it’s not as big or as heavy as you think; no, there’s still no SD card reader and yes, there’s a new keyboard (hooray!). And, yes, I like it. Quite a lot. Unlike other Apple devices, which are announced one day and released sometime later (maybe half a…