Apple

There’s Already an iPhone 6s Teardown

We’re still some hours away from the new iPhone launch here in the States, but over in Australia, the iFestivities are already underway. Thanks to iExperts, we also have our first peek at the new iPhone’s guts. According to them, there’s not a whole mountain of differences: the screen is now glued differently to the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Verizon Becomes The Final Carrier to Offer an iPhone Upgrade Program

Contracts that get you a shiny new iPhone every year are the trendy thing in the world of smartphone financing. Just in time for the latest iPhone launch, Verizon has a new financing plan that will get you the latest iDevice every 12 months. The new plans start at $27/$31 a month, for the 16GB…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Booming Business of Making Fake Apple Stores Look Real

The iPhone 6S arrives tomorrow morning, and Reuters says the fever-pitch demand for the latest iPhone in China is spurring a boom in phony stores that look a lot like official Apple stores–right down to the bags. Unauthorized Apple stores are a perennial story in many countries, and this year is no different. In particular,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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

Not every app of the week is always new–sometimes even updates to apps are deserving enough for some fresh attention. This week there are a few updates to old goodies in the Windows Phone world, Android users can choose to take a step back in time to the days of analog video recording, and iOS…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Apple CarPlay Review: Siri’s a Boring But Useful Travel Pal

The first time I saw CarPlay in action, I couldn’t believe it. You could plug your iPhone into the infotainment system and then get iOS on your dashboard?! It seemed like Apple finally found a way to turn an automobile into a rolling computer like Knight Rider. But after spending a few days using CarPlay,…

Reviews Adam Clark Estes

The Drivers of SF’s Tech Buses Are Paid So Little They’re Forced to Live in Cars

The buses that shuttle San Francisco tech workers to and from their Silicon Valley jobs each day have been blamed for displacing longtime residents. In a heartbreaking twist, the drivers of those buses are paid so little that they, too, have been priced out of San Francisco–and some of them must live in their cars.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

T-Mobile’s Trade-In Program Gives You a New iPhone for $5 a Month

There’s all sorts of complicated economics surrounding when and how and where you should upgrade iPhones, but T-Mobile’s trying to make the math a lot easier: trade in an iPhone 6, and you’ll get a 6S for $5 a month. https://gizmodo.com/which-iphone-6s-should-i-buy-a-guide-1730054334 The low-price deal relies on you trading in an iPhone, and taking out and…

Tech News Chris Mills

10 Tricks to Master Apple Mail on iOS

Apple’s mobile email client has been designed with simplicity in mind, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some useful tips and tricks to be found if you look closely enough. A few of the tips we’ve mentioned here only apply to the new iOS 9 software Apple rolled out last week, but some of them…

Gadgets David Nield

You Can Now Order Starbucks via Mobile, Anywhere in the U.S.

For a while now, Starbucks has been trialling a service that allows you to order from an app and then skip the line when you pick up your purchase. Now, that service is being rolled out across the U.S.. Spiced pumpkin lattes all round! The coffee chain has announced that, from today, anyone can use…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

9 Things You Can Now Do With Apple Watch That You Couldn’t Before

With today’s launch of watchOS 2, Apple has brought a whole new lease of life to its pretty little wrist ‘puter. Here’s the most interesting things you can now do with your $800 wearable square of technology. Use Apps Apple Didn’t Make With watchOS 2, Apple is hoping to do what it did for the…

Tech News Chris Mills

The New Google Wallet App is an Absurdly Easy Way to Send People Your Money

Previously, Google Wallet was some kind of hybrid payment system that few people understood, and fewer used. The newly revamped Wallet — now available on iOS — is meant to do just one thing: send money to other people with minimal hassle. Download the new Wallet app on iOS or Android, add a debit card…

Tech News Chris Mills

Apple Created a New Emoji But Nobody Knows Why

The world demands an emoji for every occasion, but soon, lovers of eyeballs and speech bubbles will finally get their day. It appears that Apple is about to release a mysterious new emoji. That’s it above. Weird, huh? It’s actually pretty clever. Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia, just spotted the new emoji character in…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Apple’s electric vehicle project, once a blurry rumor, is coming into increasingly clear focus. A major scoop from the Wall Street Journal today gives us details about the car’s team, manufacturing, and a ship date–of 2019. The sources of the Wall Street Journal’s Daisuke Wakabayashi are anonymous—he citied “people familiar with the matter”—but Wakabayashi has…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Company Offers $1 Million for iOS Hack, Will Probably Sell It to the NSA

A cleverly-named security company has a clever idea. Zerodium will pay you $1 million if you find a zero-day exploit in iOS 9. Then, if history is any indicator, it will turn around and sell that intelligence to a despotic regime like the NSA. Chaouki Bekrar, the founder of Zerodium, is infamous for founding the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

WatchOS 2 Is Finally Available for Apple Watch

After a last minute delay last week due to an unforeseen bug, WatchOS 2 is now available for Apple Watch. The new version brings a lot of must-have upgrades including new watch faces, third-party complications, and support for third-party apps. Basically, this is what the Apple Watch should have been at launch. To download the…

Tech News Darren Orf

You Can Turn Your Phone Into a Radar Gun With a Simple Wireless Accessory

One day it might be just another one of the hundreds of features that come standard in a smartphone. But for now, a new Kickstarter campaign promises to turn your mobile device into a speed-measuring radar gun using a simple Bluetooth accessory. According to the creators of the Scoutee, their device uses the same radar…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple is Cleaning The App Store Of its First Major Malware Attack

Apple cleaned the App Store of apps containing malware today, having discovered a long con that saw developers using infected software tools, inadvertently turning their legit apps into data-collection tools for hackers. According to Reuters, hackers duped developers into using a bad version of Apple’s Xcode app-development tools. The bad version of Xcode, dubbed XcodeGhost,…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Most Popular Paid App in the App Store Is Gone

Marco Arment, internet pundit and creator of Instapaper, has decided to stop selling his wildly-popular ad blocker, Peace, for iOS 9. His reason? It “just doesn’t feel good.” But there’s more to it than that. Like many other entrepreneurs, Arment released his ad blocker on Wednesday, when the release of iOS 9 meant Apple mobile…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Many Apple Users Are Reporting Lags and Crashes From iOS 9

A thread on MacRumors about lagginess and other issues from the iOS 9 update has become massive in size and Twitter is full of complaints. The iDownload Blog has dubbed the iOS 9 problems “lag gate.” Writer Christian Zibreg notes, “Some folks are even going as far as to suggest that iOS 9 is laggier…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Should You Update to iOS 9 on Your iPhone 4s?

Still have an iPhone 4s? iOS 9 is a bitter pill to swallow. Although you can technically download the new operating system if you so desire, you’ll miss out on some of the best features and speed improvements on iOS 9. Bumsville. The 4s is the first phone deemed lucky enough by Apple to survive…

Tech News Chelsey B. Coombs

There’s Already an iPhone 6s Teardown

Verizon Becomes The Final Carrier to Offer an iPhone Upgrade Program

The Booming Business of Making Fake Apple Stores Look Real

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

Apple CarPlay Review: Siri’s a Boring But Useful Travel Pal

The Drivers of SF’s Tech Buses Are Paid So Little They’re Forced to Live in Cars

T-Mobile’s Trade-In Program Gives You a New iPhone for $5 a Month

10 Tricks to Master Apple Mail on iOS

You Can Now Order Starbucks via Mobile, Anywhere in the U.S.

9 Things You Can Now Do With Apple Watch That You Couldn’t Before

The New Google Wallet App is an Absurdly Easy Way to Send People Your Money

Apple Created a New Emoji But Nobody Knows Why

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Company Offers $1 Million for iOS Hack, Will Probably Sell It to the NSA

WatchOS 2 Is Finally Available for Apple Watch

You Can Turn Your Phone Into a Radar Gun With a Simple Wireless Accessory

Apple is Cleaning The App Store Of its First Major Malware Attack

The Most Popular Paid App in the App Store Is Gone

Many Apple Users Are Reporting Lags and Crashes From iOS 9

Should You Update to iOS 9 on Your iPhone 4s?

Did AMD Just Make the Best CPU for Gamers and Creators?

AI Just One-Shotted Another CEO

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About ‘Harry Potter’ Ever Again

Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...