Apple still won't make us a touch-screen Mac, but it is at least considering adding touch-sensitive displays on just about every surface that surrounds the MacBook Pro keyboard as the next best thing.

Apple has given its controversial Touch Bar the ax. The company will stop selling new MacBook Pro laptops with the touch screen above the keyboard. While some users liked the feature, others thought ...

Like butterfly keyboards and chargers being included with iPhones, the MacBook’s Touch Bar seems doomed to extinction soon. The feature wasn’t completely useless, but its diminutive size prevented it ...

The Touch Bar returns to the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro...if it ever went away. Why, when the 14- and 16-inch models have ditched it? From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and AI that ...

The patent relates to electronic devices, and particularly electronic devices having a display with a force sensor positioned at least partially around, and coplanar with, the display. In other words, ...

Apple keeps researching how to have the iPad-centric Apple Pencil do the work of the old Touch Bar on the surface of a future MacBook Pro. It's just a patent application and not only may one of those ...

We recently reported on Flexbar, a project developed by ENIAC Technology that brings back the Touch Bar – the controversial (and now discontinued) small touch screen implemented by Apple on the ...

When Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro at the end of 2016 it was even thinner with a new design made possible by a new keyboard with a butterfly mechanism, and an interactive OLED bar that Apple ...

I know what you’re thinking. For the past five years, we’ve questioned, lambasted, and otherwise reviled the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. And now that it’s gone for—checks notes—a little over a week, we ...

Five years ago, when Apple debuted the Touch Bar on its new MacBook Pro laptops, I was willing to give the consumer technology giant the benefit of the doubt. The narrow touch-sensitive display along ...