Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

After over a decade of refusing to make a touchscreen laptop, a decision supported by co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple is finally preparing to launch a version of its MacBook laptop with a touch display.

Most touchscreens, which have been used for decades, are based on resistive technologies. That means the user has to actually press together two electrodes, each consisting of a conductive material ...

Touch screens with resistive technology have been in common use for many years. They are inexpensive to manufacture and easy to interface. In resistive-technology sensing, electrodes are connected to ...

Anyone who has ever used a touch screen may be familiar with the frustration that can ensue when trying to enter multiple inputs at once. On typical touch screens, simultaneous touches tend to cancel ...

Samsung has brought back something unique at CES 2025 that you may have already seen at last year’s conference. If you ...

The next Apple MacBook Pro won't just have an M6 chipset, but also a full-blown touchscreen interface for the first time.

How touch screen technology is making learning more accessible for all students. We travel to the Mary Cariola Children's Center in Rochester, NY to learn about how touch screen technology is making ...