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Watch the Apple WWDC Keynote, Streaming Live Right Here

Find out everything software-related that’s coming up this year for Apple — from updates to ios9, to Apple Watch and some surprises. You can watch the live feed here, straight from San Francisco, starting at 10 AM pacific, or 1 PM eastern. [WWDC Livefeed] Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: CA58…

What We’re Wishing for in iOS 9

No one’s quite sure what to expect from iOS 9. And with WWDC only a few days away, this week we asked you what you’d wish for in a perfect iOS 9 release. Here are a few things we heard again and again—along with what we know about whether we’ll get them. So, what do…

Something Apple This Way Comes: Everything We’re Expecting at WWDC

Hello Apple fanboys and fangirls. Gather round once again, and join us as we take a speculative spelunk into the dark chasm of Cupertino’s software recesses to see what the future holds for Apple. New music streaming service! A new and improved Siri! An Apple Watch that sucks significantly less! And hopefully a few other…

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

Welcome to Apps of the Week, where we take a look at the latest smartphone software that makes us oh-so-glad to be living in the 21st century. We’ve got apps to challenge your email allegiances, bring smarts to your photo library, and a new voice assistant that looks to challenge the Siris and Cortanas of…

Can’t Code? This iPad App Will Easily Let You Make Your Own Video Game

There’s no shortage of nit-picking gamers who feel they could easily make better video games than what’s being released every week. And thanks to a new iPad app called Toy Engine, they can put their money where their mouths are and design their own side-scrolling video game, even if they’ve never written a single line…

You May Have to Keep Waiting for That New Apple TV

At Apple’s developer conference next week we’ll hear all the software goodies the company has planned in 2015, but we may not get any news about one of its most highly anticipated pieces of hardware: its new set-top box, the Apple TV. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation — real and…

Apple Recalls Beats’ Pill XL Speaker Because It’s a Big Old Fire Hazard

Beats’ Pill XL speakers are HOT HOT HOT! As in, they will literally catch on fire and you should remove them from your home or office environment immediately. Appleis recallingBeats’ largest Pill speaker model because overheating batteries may cause the oblong, overpriced speakers to be set ablaze. “Apple has determined that, in rare cases, the…

What’s On Your Wish List For iOS 9?

We’re less than a week away from Apple’s annual World Wide Developer’s Conference, where the company will likely (most definitely) announce its latest mobile operating system—which has been much more quiet compared Apple’s other announcements this year, and there’s a reason for that. The lead up to Monday’s event has focused mainly on the new…

Microsoft Is Slowly Buying Its Way Onto Your Smartphone

Like a penny-pinching extreme couponer, Microsoft has an eye for good deals—especially wonderful productivity apps for iOS and Android. In its latest mobile app bargain, Microsoft is reportedly buying Wunderlist, a well-loved to-do list app, which would basically make Microsoft the unofficial monarch of mobile productivity. The $100-200 million asking price, if it goes through,…

Why a Weird Text Message Can Crash Your iPhone

Last week, it came to light that a simple text message can crash Messages on any iPhone it’s sent to. Apple has explained how you can fix it if you’re affected—but why can it happen in the first place? In this video, Tom Scott investigates the theories that have been suggested thus far, casts aside…

Here’s What the iPhone Would Have Looked Like in 1985

Some of my fondest childhood memories involve booting up my parents’ Macintosh Plus to play Super Munchers or make pixelated masterpieces in MacPaint. Alas, Apple hadn’t gotten into mobile devices just yet, but that didn’t stop Pierre Cerveau from imagining what the tech giant’s very first smartphone might have looked like if it were made…

This Is How NASA Tests Its Spacecraft-Saving Parachutes

How do you test the parachutes that will save spacecraft as they tumble towards the surface of a planet from the reaches of space? In the world’s largest wind tunnel, of course. This is a view inside the giant wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center (which might be the biggest, but not necessarily the…

Here’s Apple’s Temporary Fix For Its iPhone-Crashing Messages Bug

Earlier this week, it came to light that a simple text message can crash Messages on any iPhone it’s sent to. Apple hasn’t fixed the problem at a software level yet—but it does have a temporary solution that you can use if you’re affected. In a new support post, Apple says that is “aware of…

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

This week is the big annual tech holiday for Android fans (with Google Photos as a present), and Apple enthusiasts big day isn’t far behind, but we still got some great apps to talk about amidst the big headlines concerning new OS features and the like. Android gets completely caught up in the world of…

Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Google’s Clay Bavor just told everyone at Google I/O that there are over a million Google Cardboard headsets in the world today. There’s about to be a whole lot more: he also just announced that Google Cardboard’s Virtual Reality apps are heading to iPhone. Bavor practically announced the cross-platform support with a shrug, quickly moving…

Amazon isn’t the only tech giant expanding its same-day delivery services: Apple just debuted same-day delivery for select products through its Apple Store app in San Francisco. Apple is partnering with delivery company Postmates for the new push to help you replace your iPhone cables as quickly as possible. Once you place an order, you’ll…

Devs Are Already Using the Apple Watch’s Hidden Port To Charge It Faster

Developers just illustrated that the Apple Watch’s six-pin accessory port is not only capable of charging the wristable—it actually charges it faster than the inductive charger. When we shared first shared news of the the hidden port a while back, we told you about Reserve Strap, a startup that is developing a $250 battery strap…

Apple now offers same-day deliveryto get (some) Apple Store products to you in super-quick time. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area. And are willing to pay.

Stop Using “Read Receipts” on Texts

Rumor has it, Apple wants to give you the option to use read receipts on a contact-by-contact basis in iMessage. This is a dreadfully bad idea that will undoubtedly destroy relationships, estrange friends, and piss off teens. Why? Because read receipts are awful, and making them more sophisticated is bullshit. First of all, a public…

Apple May Be Creating a Google Now Alternative for iOS 9

The iPhone’s big software version for 2015 seems surprisingly dull. Security and stability are always good things, but iOS 9 had appeared to be more about maintenance than a makeover. However, a new rumor about a feature called “Proactive” suggests iOS 9 might have a few tricks up its sleeve. The Google Now personal assistant…