Commentary: Apple's Touch Bar was an expensive gimmick, and I hated it as much as the disastrous butterfly keyboard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

When Apple released its first MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar back in 2016, many saw it as a window into the future. Never before had a touch display been integrated into a laptop keyboard, and there ...

It was such a bold change to a keyboard that Apple championed the Touch Bar — for a while. Then it quickly started to fade away before vanishing completely. Here's what happened, and why. Stop us if ...

Today’s Apple Unleashed event brought with it several interesting announcements, including the release of the two new MacBook Pros. These notebooks are an upgrade over the existing versions of the ...