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One of Donald Trump’s major campaign promises was to levy extremely high tariffs against countries he feels are taking advantage of us, like China. In the past, president-elect Trump has floated the idea of setting what he called “defensive” tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese goods, while simultaneously labeling …

It never takes long. Following the launch of a new iPhone, we always start hearing rumors about what might be next in fairly short order. This time it’s the iPhone 8, even though if we follow Apple’s design cadence, this next phone will actually be the iPhone 7s — unless, …

When the idea of wearable computing was first proposed, analysts and industry executives jumped on the concept like rats off a sinking ship. Tablet sales were already fluttering, ahead of their long slide, smartphones clearly weren’t going to carry the market forever, and various companies from small players like Fitbit …

Reviews of Microsoft’s Surface Studio popped up today, and the general consensus from the Internet is that this is one sharp piece of hardware. Microsoft wanted to build a platform that would appeal to creative types — the sort of market Apple used to target — and by all accounts, …

For the past few months, reports have covered the ‘touch disease‘ that renders Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus nonfunctional. Investigation into the problem revealed that Apple removed the underfill from the controller chips that govern touchscreen functionality. The underfill typically fills the gaps between solder balls that attach a …

For the past 11 years, Apple has offered formal support for installing Windows on a Macintosh running OS X via its Boot Camp Assistant software. If you need Windows on a Macintosh and don’t want to use virtualization software to run it, Boot Camp will resize your hard drive partition …

Update (12/1/2016): Apple has announced an exchange program for certain iPhone 6S’ purchased between September and October, 2015. This addresses the persistent “Battery life stuck at 30%” issue described below. Apple has not commented on reports of reduced battery life or excessive heat, and has announced no plans to address …

It’s not unusual for new hardware to have a few bugs to work out, but Apple’s response to the battery life issues its users have been experiencing with the MacBook Pro seems to take the cake. The macOS 10.12.2. update dropped today, and it contains a bevy of bug fixes …

Microsoft has had terrible luck with Windows on smartphones. Earlier this year it announced its intention to scale back its efforts in mobile, but it’s not completely out of the game. To prove it, Microsoft has gotten a mid-tier Android phone maker to create a Windows 10 version of its …

For the past few years, a number of smartphones have offered so-called “fast charging” solutions. These options are meant to charge the device rapidly (Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 is one such example). Earlier this year, we discussed how USB-C and QuickCharge 3.0 were incompatible, thanks to their different requirements for …