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It’s worth downloading the latest update to Google Maps for iOS: just like on Android, you now get up-to-the-minute traffic updates read out to you, so that you can avoid crashes that occur while you’re en route. [App Store via Engadget]

In the Future, International Airline Travel Will Actually Be Fun Again. No, Really.

Traveling abroad is inherently thrilling — but then there’s that interminable, soul-sucking trek to get there. In the future, things might be very different. Imagine an eight-hour flight that’s actually enjoyable, with ergonomically designed seats and an in-flight entertainment system that syncs to your personal devices. You could get through security faster with biometric scanning.…

Newly Discovered Exploit Makes Every iPhone Remotely Hackable

The government would love to get its hands on a foolproof way to break into the new highly encrypted iPhone. And it looks like some clever hackersjust gave it to them. Bug bounty startup Zerodium just announced that a team has figured out how to remotely jailbreak the latest iPhone operating system and will take…

Apple’s Indoor Survey App Creates Building Interior Maps Using an iPhone

Apple has quietly released a new iOS app that allows users to map out the interior spaces of a building using just an iPhone. While the apps doesn’t show up in search within the App Store, you can grab it using this direct link, first spotted by developer Steve Troughton-Smith. Update: The app requires a…

Apple’s Beats Pill+ App Is Its Second-Ever Piece of Android Software

Apple just launched its second-ever Android app, and it’s to help you control the new Beats Pill+ speaker. The new piece of software is pretty simple: it allows you to control what’s on the play list, keep an eye on battery life, name the speaker, and link up two of the devices so you can…

You Can Go Buy an Apple TV in Person Today

If you didn’tbuy into the new Apple TVenough to actually buy into it, good news: starting tomorrow, you can walk into an actual store and hand human beings money in return for Apple’s promised Future Of Television. Starting this morning, you can pick up an Apple TV at Best Buy and Apple retail stores tomorrow…

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

This week’s roundup includes some new apps, some extremely updated apps and few useful apps. Actually, this is a surprisingly creative bunch: There’s a new video app, an app that builds color palettes, and even a comic-book creator. And somehow, only one of them costs money. Android Boomerang You’ve met Instragram, but now you can…

Android 6 Vs. iOS 9: The Showdown

It wasn’t too long ago that we put the major mobile operating systems head to head, but with big updates from both Google and Apple in the meantime, we think it’s worth another look at where they both stand. Is there a clear winner? Or are they barely distinguishable any more? Visual Design and Interface…

Huawei Now Has an Old Apple Creative Director on Staff

Huawei has a fine track record of borrowing from Apple’s designs. You can perhaps expect the Chinese manufacturer to produce even more iPhone clones though—because it now counts an old Apple Creative Director as a member of its staff. Verge notes that the former Apple employee Abigail Sarah Brody has updated her LinkedIn profile to…

The BBC has announced that iPlayer is headed to Apple TV “in the coming months.” That’s all we have to go on so far, but it’s certainly good news.

Apple TV Will Get Siri Support for Apple Music Early 2016

Apple has confirmed that the new Apple TV will support Siri for Apple Music sometime early in 2016. A report by Buzzfeed, including a conformation by Apple, reveals that you’ll be able to use Siri to sift through songs and albums when an update for the set-top box rolls out “at the beginning of next…

Apple Doesn’t Get That U2 Is Lame as Hell

When Apple took its first public adventure into virtual reality, the company needed a subject that represented the bright, infinite possibilities of this new medium. WHAT? NO! Not U2! Not again! Remember that U2 iTunes disaster last year? Apple put the new U2 record nobody wanted on everyone’s computer and everyone did not see this…

Basically No One Went To See The New “Steve Jobs” Movie

The movie Steve Jobs bombed at the box office, making a mere $7.3 million. Have we officially reached Jobs overload? That’s Variety’s take on the crappy turn-out for Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which stars Michael Fassbender as the titular Apple cofounder, Kate Winslet as his long-suffering marketing exec Joanna Hoffman and Seth Rogen as Steve…

Watch This Poor Bastard Drown Every Single iPhone in Failed Experiment

You can tell Zach Straley means well. The apparently wealthy YouTuber won millions of views when he showed how an iPhone 6s was surprisingly waterproof. Surely scaling that concept up and water testing all 10 iPhone models would win more 10 times that many views… LOL nope. The test was supposed to be simple: Attach…

iOS Update Ensures You Get a Good Night’s Sleep

If you’re in the mood to take a glorious snooze, waking up much later than you intended to, go ahead and install the iOS 9.1 update overnight. iOS users are taking to Twitter and various forums to warn others that updating iPads and iPhones overnight will cancel any alarms from going off. The updates have…

You Can Pre-Order the new Apple TV With Fancy Siri Remote Right Now

It’s been a long time coming, but the updated Apple TV is a thing you can finally plunk down your money for starting today. The new 32 GB ($150) and 64 GB ($200) models represent the biggest update to Apple’s set-top-box since it launched ages ago. The coolest new feature? The Siri remote which features…

Thanks to Wi-Fi Assist, Apple’s In a $5 Million Lawsuit

The Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9 was meant to save consumers from shitty Wi-Fi by switching to cell data. Instead, it’s eating through data caps, and now apparently causing lawsuits. https://gizmodo.com/ios-9s-wi-fi-assist-is-eating-my-cell-data-1733513159 A California couple is suing Apple for $5 million in damages relating to Wi-Fi Assist. The suit alleges that after upgrading to iOS…

Steve Jobs Is a Very Entertaining Movie About How It’s OK to Be an Asshole

Five minutes into Steve Jobs, I didn’t think I was gonna make it. I am, indeed, a product of the attention-deficit generation whose mind was ruined by the “beautiful” ideas of Steve Jobs. I’ve heard the stories about Jobs’ meticulous obsession with details, and his mercurial, uncompromising personality. How could I not? They’ve been etched…

Apple’s New Trackpad Is Magical, But Can’t Kill My Mouse

The mouse is anathema to Apple’s grand utopian touch-based future, in which nothing but the supple pads of your ten digits (and a Pencil?) dictate how you navigate a digital interface. The new Magic Trackpad 2 is the fullest realization of that future for desktop users. I’m enamored, but mostly just want my mouse back.…

Good news for multi-taskers: Chrome for iOS now supports Apple’s split-screen feature.