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

We’re busy preparing for all the new smartwatches, phones, and gadgets that will be coming out of IFA in Berlin next week, but let’s take a moment to remember all the neat software that will fill up those cases of aluminum, glass, and silicon. Here are the best apps from this week. Android Cortana Wait.…

The iPhone 6s’ Biggest Upgrade Is All About That Camera

The iPhone 6s seems to be a boring upgrade as far as aesthetics go. Surprise! It’s going to look almost identical to the year-old iPhones already out there. But as we approach ever closer to that September 9 Apple event, more leaks are fleshing out what exactly the 6s is going to deliver on the…

You’ll be able to watch Apple’s September 9th event on a Windows 10 PC. Traditionally, Apple has limited the livestream to its own Safari browser on iOS and OS X operating systems—barring workarounds—but this time you can officially watch it in the new Microsoft Edge browser.

Siri Has a Lot To Say About Apple’s Big Announcement

Apple’s next event is September 9 and there’s lots of speculation about what they’re going to announce. iPads! iPhones! Apple TV? Instead of hanging your head about wondering, why not just ask Siri? Well, she’s not telling, and she’s actually being quite coy about the whole thing. Here are just a few of the different…

Apple’s Next iPhone Event Is September 9

As we expected, Apple’s next iPhone will be announced on September 9, 2015—the same date as last year’s iPhone event. We’re expecting Force Touch, better cameras, and better processors all wrapped in a similar looking design. But Mega iPads and Apple TV (set-top box and streaming service) are expected to also make an appearance. Oh…happy…

VMware Updates to Support Windows 10

Want to bring the (surprisingly good) power of Cortana to your MacBook? Well, there’s now two options. https://gizmodo.com/parallels-11-can-put-microsofts-cortana-on-your-mac-1724883769 Parallels and VMware have long been the two options for running Windows programs on OS X, and that isn’t going to change one bit for Windows 10. Parallels announced an updated version for Microsoft’s new OS last…

You might be one of the unlucky many who’ve been issued a faulty iPhone. A small component in some iPhone 6 Plus phones, sold between September 2014 and January 2015, is causing the iSight camera to fail. If your phone falls in a certain serial number, you’re due for a new one. Check with Apple…

A small number of the iPhone 6 Plus phones sold between September 2014 and January 2015 have a manufacturing defect in the iSight camera. It may be the reason your photos are always blurry! Apple is aware of the issue and says says it’ll replace the camera (not the entire device) for free, if you’re…

Apple on Dr. Dre’s Violent Past: “We Have Every Reason to Believe That He Has Changed”

Apple has come to Dr. Dre’s defense in light of a recent essay by Dee Barnes, a woman who Dre assaulted 25 years ago. The essay published by Gawker.com was cast as a review of Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about the rise and fall of Dr. Dre’s group NWA. In the review Barnes, a…

Turn Your iPhone Into a Crappy 1985 Camcorder With This App

Given the popularity of apps like Instagram that intentionally make your photos look like garbage shot on film, it’s no surprise there’s finally an app that lets your iPhone or iPad shoot video that looks like it was recorded with a VHS camcorder from the mid-1980s. Developed by an LA-based post-production shop called Rarevision, VHS…

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

Welcome to another week of apps. Android gets all the cool stuff with an awesome Bing upgrade and your next mobile gaming addiction. iOS is all focused on the camera, and Windows Phone wants to make you more productive. Let’s take a look. Android Bing Bing just upped its game in a major way. Much…

Are You Still Using Apple Music?

We just passed the halfway mark for Apple Music’s three-month free trial period, and guess what: A whole bunch of people have stopped using the service already. A new report from MusicWatch claims that a whopping 48-percent of users have jumped ship. Are you one of them? (I am.) Apple, predictably, disagrees with MusicWatch’s conclusion,…

Are Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Really “Saving” an Industry?

What is Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre? They’re having quite a couple of months. They’ve manufactured a seriously potent moment of cultural synergy. Let’s review some facts about how Jimmy and Dre are doing right now: In its first six weeks, Apple Music attracted 11 million users for its free trial. It’s on its way…

That Apple Car May Be Further Along Than We Thought

Apple seems to want a little piece of everything that could possibly be considered “technology,” and its most ambitious undertaking is its rumored autonomous vehicle—the Apple Car. And now, according to a report from The Guardian, the Apple auto hearsay is becoming more fact than fiction. Basing its report on documents obtained by a public…

Siri Has Another Cool Feature: Saving Lives

If you’re ever trapped under a truck, the last person you’d think to call for help would probably your creepy digital assistant. But as Siri recently proved, even fake humans can sometimes save lives. As Fox 17 reports, a young teenager working under his (poorly propped-up) truck had the thing fall on him, trapping his…

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

With Samsung’s slew of announcements today and the steady march toward the IFA electronics show in Berlin and the iPhone event in September, all eyes seem to be on hardware—but it’s the apps that make any of these things worth using. Here are the very best from this week. Multiplatform Microsoft Translator Translation apps have…

Apple has a new version of BootCamp,actually designedto work with Windows 10. If you’re already running it, look for the update in your Windows partition; otherwise, the update should be available soon. You’ll need an Intel-powered Mac running OS X Yosemite to take advantage. [MacRumors] Contact the author at [email protected].

This Flip iPhone Is Crazy and We Want One Now

Gizmodo’s favorite speculative industrial designer Martin Hajek is at it again. This time, he’s created something that could almost be true: an Apple flipphone for the Japanese market. Before doing these beautiful concept designs, Hajek asked himself what would happen if “Apple decided to do an iPhone for the Japanese market.” Speaking to Gizmodo via…

Could You Charge an iPhone with the Electricity in Your Brain?

Ever since Morpheus explained how the machines use humans as batteries in The Matrix, we’ve been fascinated by the idea. But can the human body actually generate enough current to do anything useful? We decided to find out, by asking experts how long it would take a human brain to charge an iPhone. Before we…

Now’s a Great Time to Sell Overpriced Water-Saving Gadgets in California

Here we are folks: California’s in the midst of one of the worst droughts on record, and unsurprisingly, some Californians see the struggle as a great opportunity to get rich. The already filthy rich Apple CEO Tim Cook is one of them! Along with members of the Google dynasty, Cook is investing in Nebia, a…