An engineer has tapped into Apple’s LidAngleSensor MacBook API to create an app which displays the angle read from the sensor on the screen. Though a cool and worthy tool in its own right, Sam Gold’s ...

Apple's MacBook has a hinge equipped with a sensor that detects the angle at which the display is opened and closed, according to engineer Sam Henry Gold. According to Gold, starting with the 16-inch ...

Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro recently went through a teardown process by iFixit website. Although we got a closer look at the scissor-switch keys along with other innards, what the website missed at ...

Among the changes made by Apple to its laptops over the years, the transition from a Hall sensor-based sleep sensor to an angle sensor that determines when the lid is closed is a decidedly unpopular ...

The MacBook knows where the screen is: Apple detects this using sensors. A developer has now found the hidden API for this. Not all sensors in the Mac are obvious: current MacBooks have a so-called ...

Among the changes made by Apple to its laptops over the years, the transition from a Hall sensor-based sleep sensor to an angle sensor that determines when the lid is closed is a decidedly unpopular ...

Eliminating the need for a separate magnetic lid sensor, the CM36262 integrates a patent-pending optical lid sensor with an ambient-light sensor (ALS) and proximity sensor, thus simplifying the design ...

Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro recently went through a teardown process by iFixit website. Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro recently went through a teardown process by iFixit website. Although we got a closer ...