Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Of all the controversies surrounding Apple in recent years, ...

It will be to my eternal shame that I never learned to play a musical instrument. It wasn’t for the want of trying. I attempted to learn the violin at the age of seven, but the neighbors mistook my ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Are you old enough to remember the sort of keyboard that ...

What if your keyboard was filled with tiny screens that showed you exactly what any given press would do, each built into a crystal-clear key? The keys would morph and shift as you needed, ...

The Pop Keys is an exercise in style over substance. While it has adorable looks and switches between devices easily, it’s asking a lot for rather cheap components. At this point Logitech offers no ...

Apple’s Magic Keyboard series works nicely for the iPad and Mac, but they are pricey. Fortunately, several companies make viable alternatives, including Logitech. Their latest keyboard, the Keys-To-Go ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

Responding to customer complaints, Apple makes changes to the butterfly switch keyboard in its laptops -- including new 2019 MacBook Pro models. Shara Tibken Former managing editor Shara Tibken was a ...

From the time we spent with Apple's just-announced 16-inch MacBook Pro, it was obvious that the shallow, unreliable butterfly keyboard design was out and scissor switches were back in. (It didn't hurt ...

Apple’s butterfly keyboard switches are some of the worst buttons to grace a modern device: unreliable, prone to breaking after coming in contact with a tiny bit of dust or grime, and incredibly ...