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Blackberry’s CEO Gives You a Great Reason to Buy an iPhone

Cops and spies alike are up in arms lately over companies like Apple using uncrackable encryption on their devices. But Blackberry, whose clickity keyboards can still be heard in the halls of many government bureaucracy, doesn’t think criminals deserve privacy. The struggling Canadian company’s CEO recently published a blog post with the bold headline, “The…

Can You Really Hate a Selfie Stick That Cleverly Transforms Into a Smartphone Case?

It’s easy to hate selfie sticks; they’re the seedy underbelly of the camera-equipped smartphones we carry around. But it’s really hard to hate on the brilliantly-engineered Stikbox that hides a telescoping 28-inch long selfie stick on the back of your mobile device. Like their more respectable cousin the tripod, selfie sticks have been collapsing for…

Sonos Works With Apple Music At Long Last

As promised, Sonos has finally joined the list of apps that play nice with Apple Music—provided you’re willing to risk the beta version, that is. Starting today, anyone enrolled in the public beta for Sonos can use their rather expensive sound system to play Tay-Tay. If you’re not already on the beta program, you can…

The 20 Best New Apps of 2015

Another year, another couple thousand new apps for you to wade through in a befuddled haze. Which ones should you download? Which ones should you actually pay for? And which ones deserve to take up prime real estate on your home screen? Whether you’ve spent the last 365 days asking yourself those very questions, or…

Apple Won an Exclusive Taylor Swift Concert Streaming Deal

Yesterday, Apple announced that its Music service will have the exclusive rights to stream a concert film from Taylor Swift’s current world tour. When her 1989 world tour concert video goes public on December 20th, there will be only one place to watch it. And that place will be Apple Music. According to Re/code, you…

BBC iPlayer Is Now Available on Apple TV

BBC’s iPlayer has been conspicuous in its absence from the Apple TV for years. Today, finally, that’s changed. The BBC announced in October that iPlayer was headed to Apple TV “in the coming months,”and it’s kept its promise in time for the holidays. The new app provides the ability to stream BBC content on-demand, much…

This Week’s Tech Rumors, From Brilliant to Bullshit

Technology is full of rumors on what might be—ranging from the highly probable to the likely impossible. Covering technology means slogging through dumb press releases, scam-y Kickstarters, horribly photographed leaks, and hazy speculation that often needs another level of scrutiny to figure out if its even worth my (and your) time. When rumors fall apart,…

iPhone Smart Battery Case Review: I Can’t Believe I Don’t Hate It

My initial reaction to Apple’s expensive new iPhone battery case was in step with the everyone else’s: It looks like it has a tumor. But what I discovered after using it for a full day is it’s actually surprisingly great. What Is It? The $100 iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case is Apple’s first step into…

Comic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak. It’s the first time the convention will ever be held in Japan, and it’s planned for December 2016. It’s going to be a sister event to the Apple co-founder’s Silicon Valley Comic Con, and the Woz himself appeared in Tokyo last weekend to get people…

You Can Now Download Cortana for Android and iOS

Every mobile operating system comes with its own digital assistant. iOS has Siri, Android has Google Now, and Windows phone has Cortana. But now, Microsoft is giving all smartphone users some choice, now that Cortana has escaped (the sinking ship that is) the Windows phone and officially migrated to Android, iOS and also Cyanogen. Cortana…

These $800 Lightning Headphones Make Your iPhone’s 3.5mm Jack Redundant

If you don’t like using the 3.5mm headphone jack on your iPhone but demand high-end audio, you’re a rare beast. But a rare beast whose dreams have come true, in the shape of Audeze’s new headphones, which combine audiophile luxury with an integrated Lightning connector. The Audeze EL-8 Titanium headphones are claimed to be the…

Apple’s latest version of its Lightning to SD card adapternow supports USB 3.0 transfer speeds if you use it with the iPad Pro. It costs $30.

Best Buy Has Cut $100 Off the Price of Every Apple Watch

Just in time for the holidays, Best Buy has slashed the price of the Apple Watch. The store is cutting $100 from the price of every model of the wearable, which means you can buy a 38 millimeter Apple Watch Sport for just $250. The retailer cut the price of the Apple Watch for Black…

The Sad Reality of the Magic Mouse 2

I love Apple’s new accessories new. The Magic Keyboard is a beautiful work of industrial design and surprisingly fun for typing. The Magic Mouse 2 looks the same as its predecessor, but it’s rechargeable. And that, I’m afraid, is a blessing and a curse. After nearly two months of fun, my Magic Mouse 2 finally…

Rumor: Apple Watch 2, 4-Inch iPhone To Appear In March

That iPhone 6c rumor just got a little more real with a report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman. Sources tell Gurman that Apple is planning their next-gen Watch event for March, but the kicker here is that a new iPhone could also be appearing. The next generation of the Apple Watch has the potential to make…

10 Tricks That’ll Make You an iMovie Master

If you’ve got an iOS or OS X device in your possession, then you can also get iMovie, Apple’s user-friendly video editor that’s simple enough for beginners to understand while offering a handful of features to tempt more professional users, too. Whether you’ve spent years working with iMovie or have yet to try out the…

Apple’s New Smart Battery Case Gives Your iPhone 25 Hours of Battery Life

Apple has quietly announced a new official Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S. The case, which costs $100, will provide your phone with as much as 25 hours of battery life. The new case is designed and produced by Apple specifically for the iPhone 6 and 6S. It’s shrouded in soft-touch…

Ford is rolling out support for Siri Eyes-Free to five million vehicles dating from 2011. The feature will allow you to activate Siri on your phone using the voice-recognition button on vehicle steering wheels. It’s notfull-blown CarPlay, but hey, it’s something.

The iPhone May Ditch the Headphone Jack…For Real This Time

Apple cultivates a unique kind of rumor mill, one that often gets fixated on an idea and just keeps bringing it up year after year. Because eventually, it’s bound to be right…right? That’s the case with a new rumor suggesting Apple’s going to ditch the trusty 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone. But unlike past…

Apple Music Finally Comes to Sonos December 15th

In two weeks, you’ll be able to listen to Apple Music on Sonos’s great wireless music system. Both companies have teamed up for a public beta starting December 15th. The full rollout will happen in early 2016. Apple Music has attracted millions of subscribers since its launch last summer and constituted a major service hole…