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iTunes Comes With Free Bono

Your iTunes subscription now comes with its very own free Bono (album in which he sings lead vocals). Yep, every single iTunes user (500 million customers total!) is getting the new U2 album absolutely free. What’s more, you won’t be able to get it anywhere else (Beats Music and iTunes Radio not included) until mid-October.…

The Apple Watch Wants to Be Your Full-Fledged Personal Trainer

The Apple Watch wants you to work up a sweat. Apple’s newest gadget is a pedometer and a heart-rate monitor, and it comes with a robust array of fitness tracking features, including three separate rings to track your movement. The Move ring will tell you if you’ve done a normal amount of brisk human activity…

Apple Just Gave iOS 8 a Few New Tricks

We’ve long known that iOS 8 was a powerful (mostly under-the-hood) upgrade. But on its official launch day, Apple announced a few new features that really take the operating system to the next level. And you won’t even have to hunt very hard to find them! Pro Tip: iOS 8 will be available on September…

Apple Watch’s Walking Directions Buzz Your Wrist When It’s Time to Turn

Apple Maps have always had turn-by-turn walking directions, provided you had your iPhone in your hand. Now Apple’s new Watch will not only provide high-quality maps right there ON YOUR ARM, it will also give you an haptic nudge when you need to turn right. Using the Watch (do we call it “The Watch?”), you’ll…

Apple Watch Comes With Its Own Terrifying, Animated Emoji

Sure, the highly anticipated Apple Watch may come packing lots of “features” and “practical functions.” But let’s focus on what really matters—the tiny, colored icons that say all the things we cannot. And apparently, in Apple Watch land, all those things are going to be impossibly creepy. Emoji already have a tendency towards unsettling in…

Whoa, the Apple Watch Has Wireless Charging

One interesting tidbit about the new Apple Watch is that it comes with wireless charging. That’s pretty awesome on it’s own, and notable for the fact that it’s a technology that hasn’t quite be sorted out quite yet. The watch requires no alignment or exposed contacts—it uses a combination of magsafe tech with inductive charging…

Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know

It’s finally here. The shadow of an “iWatch” has already spawned an army of smartwatches but now Apple’s first wearable is here in the flesh. It’s beautiful, it’s called the “Apple Watch,” and you control it by using that little watch knob. Design Considering that Apple’s been making a ton of fashion-world hires, it’s no…

Apple Pay Could Finally Make Mobile Payments Happen

Apple wants to destroy your wallet and kill your credit cards with Apple Pay, its new mobile payment system. With a new iPhone or the Apple Watch, you’ll be able to ditch your cards and pay for stuff at more than 220,000 merchants by tapping your device. That is, as long as you trust Apple.…

The New iPhone Has Burst Mode For Selfies

Okay, this is kind of hilarious. The new iPhone 6 has burst mode for selfies. Hello narcissists! Burst mode, for the uninitiated will take several photos with one push of a button. This joins a number of other features that make the iPhone 6’s camera better than ever. The lens is the same with an…

The iPhone 6’s New M8 Chip Makes It a Truly Badass Fitness Tracker

Amongall the other goodies being packed into the brand new iPhone 6 and6 Plus, the phone comes bearing the newest generation of Apple’s M chip—the M8. And it might finally turn the iPhone into the fitness tracker we’ve been waiting for. The new sensor should be able to know whether you’re running, riding your bike,…

The iPhone’s WiFi Handoffs Make Internet Calling Better Than Ever

You’ll be able to call people using your WiFi connection on the iPhone 6, so when your WiFi is working better than your reception is (all the time?) you’ll have an alternative. And Apple’s WiFi received a speedy upgrade: 802.11ac WiFi in the iPhone 6, or three times faster than the previous generation. But that’s…

Thebigger, badder iPhone is finally here. But don’t worry, it does indeed have a mode for your itty bitty baby hands. In other words, you should be able to use all 5.5 inches just fine.

iPhone 6 Guts: A Screaming Processor and a Better Camera Than Ever

The new generation of iPhones isn’t only increasing in size but speed as well. Apple just announced its next-generation A8 processor that will be baked into the iPhone 6 and most likely future iPad Airs. Apple confirms rumors that the A8 has over 2 billion transistors and is 13 percent smaller, 25 percent faster, and…

​iPhone 6: A Little Bit Bigger, A Whole Lot Better

This is it. Apple just announced the iPhone 6—andthe iPhone 6 Plus—a sleek sliver of aluminum that comes in two sizes. The screen on the smaller of the two measures 4.7-inches diagonally, and depending on the nature of your needs (and the size of your hands) it might just be the perfect phone for you.…

Bingewatching Netflix on Your Chromecast Just Got Even Easier

Bingewatching good shows is now a beloved American pastime, and Chromecast is a fantastic enabler. Now Netflix is decreasing the minimal effort needed to just keep streaming; that “Post-Play ” option that automatically starts the next episode will be rolled out for iOS and Android users navigating their queue from their smartphone to their TV.…

iWatch Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

If it feels like the promise of an Apple smartwatch has been looming forever, that’s because it has. And its shadow helped birth the army of other smartwatches that we have today. But now, finally, the near mythical iWatch is rumored to arrive very soon. We’ll be covering today’s announcement live right here, but in…

iPhone 6 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

It’s iPhone time of the year again! Apple will reportedly show off the eighth generation of its flagship device today. If you believe the rumors, iPhone 6 will be one of the most dramatic updates to the iPhone line in quite some time. Will it be bigger? Will it be faster? Will it be tougher?…

Supposed iPhone 6 Benchmarked: 1 GB RAM, Dual-Core 1.4GHz A8?

The same guys that posted a seemingly legitimate video of the next iPhone have just published the results of a series of benchmarking tests they’ve performed on the device. If they’re accurate, they suggest that the phone could be in for a modest spec bump—but a noticeable jump in performance. The tests, published on Weibo,…

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reportsthat the Mayo Clinic will play “a big role” at today’s Apple event. That suggests HealthKit for iOS could get pretty serious indeed.

Apple Now Warns You If Your iCloud Is Accessed from the Web

Following last week’s celeb-photo-hacking-scandal, Apple has started sending email notifications that warn people that their iCloud accounts have been accessed from web. This is the first step to what we’ve been toldwill be a more secure iCloud future. Now when you login to your account from a web browser—or when somebody else does—you’ll get an…