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Tim Cook Was Never Keen on Suing Samsung in the First Place

Everybody knows about Steve Job’s famous intentions to go thermonuclear on Android if necessary, but it seems that current CEO Tim Cook wasn’t necessarily on the same tactical page. According to Reuters, unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation say that Cook was opposed to suing Samsung when the trouble started brewing, because Samsung was…

Evasi0n Jailbreak Has Unshackled Close to 7 Million iOS Devices

Earlier this week, the jailbreak tool to rule them all, evasi0n, was released and since then there have been close to seven million new jailbroken iOS devices. At least that’s what the creator of Cydia told Forbes. The actual breakdown of those nearly seven million devices as of last night boils down to 5.15 million…

Which One Has More Usable Space: the 128GB Surface Pro or the 128GB MacBook Air?

Everyone’s been making fun of the Surface Pro for being so stingy on hard drive space. The 128GB version of the Surface Pro only has 90GB of free space (originally reported to be 83GB but since boosted). Where the hell did the other 38 gigs go? Well, you could ask the same question to the…

Mailbox for iPhone Is Finally in the App Store, Along With Its 250,000+ Waiting List

Mailbox, the new e-mail client that’s had the tech world all atwitter recently, has officially gone live in the App Store. Created by the productivity software masters at Orchestra, the ultimate goal was to reinvent the mobile-specific email experience. Mailbox’s greatest innovation comes in the way you address e-mails: a single swipe to side will…

There’s already an update to Evasion’s super-simple jailbreak for iOS 6.1. Fast work!

Watch Siri Turn Into a Home Automation Master With the Help Of Raspberry Pi

With home automation being all the rage these days, it was only a matter of time before Siri got her little, occasionally holier-than-thou claws into the action. All it took was YouTube user Elvis Impersonator, a Raspberry Pi, and enough trust in Siri’s goodness to believe she won’t devolve into a Hal 9000 wannabe. The…

Secretly We All Want This Toilet-Paper-Holding iPad Stand

We all use our smartphones and tablets in the bathroom, but there’s an unwritten rule that you do it discreetly, and don’t really brag about touching your device while touching your… well, you get the idea. So while on one hand it’s easy to be disgusted by CTA Digital’s toilet paper/iPad stand, on the other…

Smartphone Bow Turns Your Handset Into an Archery Simulator

Securing at least an honorable mention for the most over-the-top smartphone accessory, the BowBlade promises to turn aspiring iOS and Android archers into modern day Robin Hoods (or, sigh, Katniss Everdeens) who are never in risk of accidentally sending an arrow flying dangerously off-target. The rectangular bow uses flexible, swappable blades instead of a taut…

Good 69 Joke, iTunes

Apple is selling special 69 cent songs for Valentine’s Day. 69, GET IT?!??!! Actually song pricing is in no way related to anything sexual. iTunes regularly sells 69 cent songs, and that pricing decision is between Apple and record companies. This is just that regular list with some thematic art and a wink, wink, wink.…

Augmented Reality Case Turns Your iPhone Into a (Kind Of) Accurate Tape Measure

There are already a handful of iOS apps that can turn your iPhone into a tape measure (minus the tape) in a pinch, but Incipio’s new Rugged AR Case promises a usable level of accuracy when it comes to measuring distances of up to 20 feet. The secret is a removable triangular augmented reality marker…

Visit Apple’s iBookstore for a Curated Selection of Self-Published Soft Porn

Apple has added a new section of the iBookstore called Breakout Books that highlights up and coming self-published books from “emerging talents.” Titles are grouped into genres, like sci-fi, mysteries & thrillers, and romance, just like the books section of your local grocery store. Here’s a synopsis of one such title, Bridesmaid Lotto by Rachel…

Jailbreaking Your iOS Device Probably Killed the Weather App, Here’s How To Fix It

So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don’t always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven’t downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps,…

The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life

Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap. I am. You are. We all are. We get sucked into these stupid machines, see reality through them. Instead of empowering us,…

Files Discovered in Jailbroken iPads Hint at Future Radio Features

Files discovered by 9to5Mac in the Music app on newly jailbroken iPads suggest that Apple’s long-rumored radio service might turn out to be more than a rumor after all. 9To5Mac reports that the new files are “radio buy” buttons that resemble the “radio play” buttons that already exist in iTunes. (Although, notably, the iPad’s Music…

The 128GB iPad has now hit the online Apple Store. Go get it (if you really need that storage).

Report: FreedomPop’s LTE Clip Will Give Wi-Fi-Only Tablets Free Mobile Internet

According to a leak obtained by Forbes, FreedomPop, a company that’s looking to provide free, mobile Internet access, is now looking to tablets as its next broadband market-disrupting frontier. Dubbed the LTE Clip, the relatively unobtrusive device will attach to Wi-Fi-only tablets, granting them LTE Internet from Sprint Nextel in the process. Wi-Fi-only tablets already…

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad

Jailbreaking is not a crime, but the special legal exemptions that make it legal have to me made and re-made every couple of years. As the EFF notes, a deadline is fast approaching, and unless the Librarian of Congress makes a special explicit call that jailbreaking is still OK, it could fall into the realm…

iPhone Math: What Would an Even Bigger iPhone Be Like?

So there have been these rumors of a larger iPhone. An ‘iPhone Math‘ is what some are calling it. Worthless, right? I rather hope not. As Marco has suggested, maybe this iPhone Plus is real, and the die-shrunk A5X is heading for this device. I’m going to assume that his wild stab in the dark…

The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here

Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release, there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5, and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. Pioneered by Evad3rs, the new jailbreak is untethered and is the first of its kind to work…

This Text String Crashes Almost Any App on a Mac Running Mountain Lion

Here’s a weird little OS X quirk: the eight-character code above seems to cause pretty much any app on a Mac running Mountain Lion to crash, instantly. It’s not clear why, but tapping in the code seems to cause most apps running on Mountain Lion to crash, losing any open files in the process. Interestingly,…