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Apple Doesn’t Want You To Build A Charging Band For Your Watch

Even before we had any details about the Apple Watch, accessory-makers were clamouring to sell you a $50 thing to strap to your $500 smartwatch. Apple has now finally released details about how third parties can make bands for the Watch. And it’s made things clear: no fancy connectors, no hidden ports, no charging. Just…

Tech News Chris Mills May 4

If Apple Made BB-8 Droids, They’d Be Adorable

JJ Abrams’s rotundly adorable new BB-8 droids are already primed to steal the spotlight in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But if you were wondering whether the droids could get any cuter, the answer is, yes, if Apple got involved. Designer Martin Hajek, who also brought us the Apple-ized lightsaber, has just unveiled his latest…

Tech News Maddie Stone May 2

Yep, Your Cool Wrist Tattoo Is Confusing Your EVEN COOLER Apple Watch

It’s a heartwrenching decision: either get that expensive tattoo removal, or live a life without an Apple Watch. Or, as Apple suggests, put on a heart rate monitor instead. The company has quietly confirmed that tattoos screw with the watch’s heart rate tracking. The comment was spotted by Trusted Reviews, which noticed a support page…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 1

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Thanks to Microsoft’s Build 2015 developers conference, the apps world is all shaken up. With news that Android and iOS apps will be easier than ever to port over to Windows 10, apps on Windows Phone just got a lot more interesting. But amidst all this chaos, new apps hit mobile stores this week with…

Tech News Darren Orf Apr 30

How The New Cold War Is Improving Your Navigation

Ever contemplated going to war with America, but been thwarted when the Great Satan switched off your access to its navigation satellites? That’s potentially a real problem for China and Russia, but the real victor in this navigational arms race might be you; it’s improving the quality of location data on your phone and in…

Tech News Wes Siler Apr 29

Today in Congress, We Heard That Encryption is Enabling Upskirt Photos

Government debate over encryption has veered into fully stupid territory. Expert testimony at a Congressional hearing on encryption blamed Apple and Google’s privacy systems for allowing perverts to get away with secretly photographing vaginas and posting the pictures online. When Apple and Google debuted bulked-up encryption for websites last year, the FBI complained that this…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 29

WSJ: Some Apple Watches Are Too Broken to Ship

Apple has found problems with the component that powers the Apple Watch’s “Taptic Engine,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The problem is causing shipping delays for many customers, so if you haven’t gotten yours, now you know why. The taptic engine is a linear actuator that lets the Watch give you a little taps…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 29

How Microsoft Is Going to Port Everything to Windows

We heard the rumors over and over: Android apps are coming to Windows 10. It sounded like a good way to let Windows Phone and Desktop users fill the gaps in the Windows Store—but it isn’t happening. Instead, Microsoft is making it ridiculously easy to port Android apps to the Windows Store. And everything else…

Tech News Sean Buckley Apr 29

American Airlines Planes Grounded Because of Pilot iPad Crashes

American Airlines has been using iPads in place of paper reference books for several years—but last night, a weakness showed. “Several dozen” of the airline’s planes were grounded as pilots’ iPads crashed. In a slew of of tweets, it came to light that the iPads used by pilots instead of the piles of old-school reference…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 29

Snapchat’s Delivering the News, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

The app that’s been the sexting ticket for tweens worldwide has been aggressively repositioning itself, recently as a news source. Find out more about Snapchat’s plans—and other tech news you might’ve missed—in today’s BitStream. Apps and Devices Snapchat launches a—wait for it—news division. And they’ve landed CNN political reporter Peter Hamby to head up the…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Apr 28

Videos: The ridiculous destruction of the Apple Watch

When a new gadget thing comes out that make people fetish after and drop hundreds of dollar bills on and caress in their hands like a puppy, the Internet responds by destroying said gadget thing in the most ridiculous way possible. It’s destruction shock porn and silly and overdone now but smashing dreams is never…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 27

iOS vs Android: The 2015 Edition

It’s been 7 years, and the great iOS vs Android debate rumbles on—in internet forums and real life. But these platforms have come a long way even in the last year or two. Do the old arguments still apply? What features separate iOS 8.3 from Android 5.1 Lollipop? We used a Nexus 6 and an…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 27

All the Ridiculous Adjectives Jony Ive Used to Describe the Apple Watch

The Apple Watch reviews are beginning to pour in. All those ratings, specs, and comparisons are way too much noise to pay attention to. A more serene, peaceful way of absorbing the essence of Apple Watch is by listening to every adjective the illustrious Jony Ive has used to describe the device. Seriously. With so…

Tech News Michael Hession Apr 24

Watch All the Ways Apple’s Tried to Teach Us How to Use Its Products

The Apple Watch starts hitting wrists today with one of the most incredibly enormous user guides ever produced for an Apple product: 23 topics, almost 100 pages, not even including the 10 videos to teach people how to use this thing. Apple started creating “guided tours” for its new products back in 1984—here are some…

Tech News Alissa Walker Apr 24

The Coolest Apple Watch Feature Is Silent, Invisible, and 65 Years Old

On the first day of Apple Watch pre-orders, I put on a $15k wristputer and tried to figure out what was so special about it. There was the solid gold casing, which was impressive in a blunt way, sure. I was curious about the digital crown, a new UI idea, too. But the only moment…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 24

Why I Bought the Apple Watch Even Though It Makes No Damn Sense

Even though I know better and am fully aware of the very real technological limitations and have read all the tepid reviews on the stupid thing and know that first generation Apple products aren’t worth the trouble and like most humans, enjoy having a bigger number than a smaller number in my bank account, I…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 24

An Adorable Felt Apple Watch That Never Needs Charging

You caved on the iPod Touch, and maybe even bought your kid a cheap tablet, but how are you going to explain to them that there’s no way you’re buying them a $500+ Apple Watch? Easy, you just make an adorable felt alternative like Hiné Mizushima did and tell them it’s powered by their imagination…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

Security Researcher: It’s “Trivial to Bypass Security Tools on Macs”

Time was, Mac owners could sit smugly in the knowledge that their computer was far safer than a Windows machine. But the rise of Apple brought the rise of hacker interest—and now a researcher claims that it’s “trivial for any attacker to bypass the security tools on Macs.” Apple includes a series of security measures…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 24

If You Must Have An Apple Watch Tomorrow, Head To Los Angeles

If you absolutely positively have to have an Apple wrist computer clamped to your arm by tomorrow, well, you should’ve pre-ordered. But if you didn’t, hope is not lost! (Yet.) Although Apple isn’t selling watches off the shelf in its retail stores, a small number of luxury boutiques are. It would appear that at least…

Tech News Chris Mills Apr 23

Here’s The Official Apple Watch User Guide

The first time you strap on an Apple Watch, it’s hard to tell what it can do. When do you use the touchscreen, and when the digital crown wheel? When, exactly, does Force Touch actually do something? The answers are here: Apple just published a full, searchable User Guide. It’s an enormous guide—spanning 23 topics…

Tech News Sean Buckley Apr 23

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Build A Charging Band For Your Watch

If Apple Made BB-8 Droids, They’d Be Adorable

Yep, Your Cool Wrist Tattoo Is Confusing Your EVEN COOLER Apple Watch

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

How The New Cold War Is Improving Your Navigation

Today in Congress, We Heard That Encryption is Enabling Upskirt Photos

WSJ: Some Apple Watches Are Too Broken to Ship

How Microsoft Is Going to Port Everything to Windows

American Airlines Planes Grounded Because of Pilot iPad Crashes

Snapchat’s Delivering the News, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Videos: The ridiculous destruction of the Apple Watch

iOS vs Android: The 2015 Edition

All the Ridiculous Adjectives Jony Ive Used to Describe the Apple Watch

Watch All the Ways Apple’s Tried to Teach Us How to Use Its Products

The Coolest Apple Watch Feature Is Silent, Invisible, and 65 Years Old

Why I Bought the Apple Watch Even Though It Makes No Damn Sense

An Adorable Felt Apple Watch That Never Needs Charging

Security Researcher: It’s “Trivial to Bypass Security Tools on Macs”

If You Must Have An Apple Watch Tomorrow, Head To Los Angeles

Here’s The Official Apple Watch User Guide

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