Category: keys

iFixit’s MacBook Air teardown confirms 0.5mm thicker keyboard

Post author By Randall
Post date March 25, 2020
Categories In Apple, Battery, Design, gear, ifixit, keyboard, keys, Macbook Air, personal computing, personalcomputing, scissor-switch, teardown, Tech, trackpad

[ad_1] “More than anything, that 0.5 mm illustrates the sheer unnecessary-ness of the five painful years that Mac fans spent smashing on unresponsive butterfly keyboards,” iFixit writes. “Knowing that Apple’s thinnest-and-lightest notebook accommodates a scissor-switch keyboard so gracefully makes us wonder what it was all for.” The keys also lack the silicon barrier that iFixit […]

Apple will soon ditch its butterfly keyboard design

Post author By Randall
Post date July 4, 2019
Categories In Apple, business, butterfly, Design, gear, keyboard, keys, Macbook, personal computing, personalcomputing, scissor, Tech

[ad_1] Apple’s butterfly keyboards have been troublesome from the get-go, and are well known to fail as a result of debris or overheating. Apple rolled out a worldwide repair program for 2015-and-later MacBooks, and subsequently updated the keyboard last year to include a thin silicone barrier behind each key to help thwart dust and crumbs. […]

Samsung leak exposed source code, passwords and employee data

Post author By Randall
Post date May 8, 2019
Categories In aws, Bixby, business, credentials, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, gitlab, Home, Internet, keys, leak, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, public, Samsung, Security, smartthings, source code, Tech

[ad_1] The exposed files contained source code for projects like Samsung’s SmartThings platform and Bixby services. They also contained credentials that provided access to the Amazon Web Service account that was being used, as well as several employees’ GitLab tokens, which provided further access. A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company “quickly revoked” all […]