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Here’s a Translation of All that Gangsta Slang in the iTunes Terms of Service

For the critically unhip who don’t know their way around even the simplest of hip-hop slang, RapGenius is something of a translator, cataloging the ins and outs of the genre’s jargon, and spoon-feeding it to squares like me. And what could be more packed with impenetrable slang than the “lyrics” to the iTunes Terms of…

Photographer Sues Apple For Stealing Her Eye

When you’re advertising something called a “retina display,” what better to use than a picture of an eye? You better make sure you’re using the right picture though; a photographer is suing Apple for stealing her’s. The eye in question, featured above, was captured by Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald, and while she gave Apple permission…

A Girl Bought an iPad at Wal-Mart But Inside the Box Was Just a Stack of Notepads

Imagine your excitement as a 15-year-old girl when your Mom brings back an iPad as your birthday gift. Then imagine the shock and horror when you open the box and only see a stack of yellow notepads. That’s what happened to Courtney Akers from Texas. We’ve seen rip off jobs like this before—a laptop turned…

Photoset, The Paris Review, and More

We have a bit of a high-brow edition of this week’s best iPhone apps. From an app that’ll teach you all about wine, to a stalwart lit mag, we’re flexing your brain muscle for you this time around. Photoset: Part of the beauty of Tumblr is the ability to share photos in simple sets. Unfortunately…

Libratone Zipp Review: A Sweet-Sounding, Great-Looking Airplay Speaker That’s Easy to Use

There will be wireless speakers in the future. Whether they will use DLNA, AirPlay, or Bluetooth isn’t certain—none of those technologies are quite perfect yet. But some, like Libratone’s new Zipp AirPlay speaker, are very close. And it’s better the previous Libratone Live in nearly every way. What Is It? A $400 battery-powered AirPlay speaker…

The Apple vs Android Fanboy Wars In One GIF

Here’s a brief note intended for the fanboys who ruin technology for everyone else: Look, your war doesn’t make any sense, ok? This whole fanboys vs fandroids thing, the iPhone vs Galaxy, the iPad vs Kindle Fire… who the hell cares? They’re just machines. And companies are not your friends. They are not here to…

Apple’s Going to Pay Up for the iOS 6 Clock Design It Stole

Apple shamlessly swiped the design of iOS 6’s iPad clock from the Swiss National Railway, and a couple of weeks ago, it was called out. Now that its copycatism has been exposed, Apple has agreed to licensing terms. https://gizmodo.com/apple-totally-stole-the-design-of-the-ios-6-ipad-clock-5945008 The classic ticker was originally designed in 1944 by Hans Hilfiker, and the railroad owns the…

iPad Mini To Be Announced October 23rd, Says All Things D

AllThingsD is reporting that “people familiar with Apple’s plans” say that the iPad Mini will be unveiled at an event to be held on October 23rd. It’s tough to say how accurate the rumor is: it’s a Tuesday, not a Wednesday, so it would break with tradition, but it could be timed to steal the…

How to Stop Apple From Tracking You Again in iOS 6

Business Insider is reporting that Apple’s launch of iOS 6 brings with it not just Passbook and bad maps, but a new means of tracking user activity, too. That’s right; your iPhone tracks your every activity by default. Here’s how to stop it. The report suggests that Apple has started tracking users again so advertisers…

Photoset: Tumblr’s Awesome Photo Sharing Feature Gets Its Own App

The beauty of Tumblr is that it lets you share pictures in neatly arranged collections. Now you can post batches of images in that same style to anywhere using an app from Tumblr called Photoset. What does it do? Lets you upload pics or take new ones and arrange them in a photo set. Then…

Apple Hires Away Top Samsung CPU Designer to Build Custom Apple Chips

Apple just took a big step toward upping its chip-making game, and took a big swipe at Samsung in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino’s hired away Jim Mergard, a well respected and vastly experienced engineer, from the Korean company. The move is a big deal for a few reasons. First, it…

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First Look at What’s Inside Apple’s New Dock Adapter: It’s Impossible to Tinker With

I just got my dock adapter in the mail. So naturally, I want to destroy this one. The dock adapter has a plastic shell on it that is glued. You can’t cleanly get it off without the dremel, as the glue is not hot glue, that I can tell. Peter from Double Helix Cables was…

Instapaper Founder Starts an iPad Magazine Called, uh, The Magazine

Instapaper, one of the best things to happen to digital reading, has now spawned an iPad magazine, called The Magazine. Besides having a clever title, it’s edited by a clever dude, Instapaper founder Marco Arment. But will it be any good? The Magazine is available now through the app store for $2. According to Arment’s…

It Only Costs 41 Cents a Year to Charge an iPhone

The highly anticipated iPhone 5 is finally in millions of people’s hands. Within three days of its September 21st launch, Apple had sold a record-breaking five million units. And within a year, analysts project that sales of the iPhone 5 will reach 170 million. The popularity of the new device got us thinking: how much…

Apple Wants To Use Your Fingerprints to Unlock Your iPhone

Apple was just granted a patent for technology that could lead to a fancy new biometric unlocking mechanism on future Apple products. The technology could also be used to implement new security features for ecommerce. The patent comes just a few months after Apple bought security technology company AuthenTec for $356 million over the summer.…

After a successful Samsung appeal, the Galaxy Nexus injunction has been lifted. You are free to enjoy your Nexii again!

This Case Makes the Back of Your iPhone Touch-Sensitive

Mimicking the touch sensitive pad on the back of the PlayStation Vita, the Sensus iPhone case lets you interact and play games with your handset without ever mucking up its display with fingerprints. The case features capacitive sensors on its back and right edge so there’s at least one spot left where you can hold…

iPod Touch 5th Gen Teardown: Tiny, Powerful, and a Gigantic Pain in the Butt to Fix

The new iPod touch is out, so naturally it’s already been cracked open for a look at its guts. The verdict? Tightly packed goodness, according to iFixit. The iPod touch’s innards are intricately laid out to make it even thinner than the iPhone 5. While you can pry off its face after blasting it with…

Eric Schmidt Would Love to Be CEO of Apple, Doesn’t Take Microsoft Seriously and Is Wary of Facebook

In an interview with AllThingsD, Eric Schmidt answered a fun question from the audience: If he had to be CEO again, would he choose Apple, Amazon or Facebook? Schmidt chose Apple. He also dissed Microsoft and keeps mentioning Facebook’s billion users. His first answer to the CEO question was a very smooth political sidestepping of…