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This Tiny Multi-Function Cube Can Save a Dying Smartphone

There is no shortage of tiny USB charging and sync cables available for your smartphone, but the makers of the aptly-named WonderCube have managed to squeeze a surprising amount of functionality into a tiny one-inch cube you’ll never want to leave home without. The WonderCube is smaller than most keychains, but does far more than…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Wow, People Really Suck at Drawing Apple’s Logo From Memory

Do you know what Apple’s oh-so-ubiquitous logo looks like? Do you really? UCLA psychologists asked 85 undergrads to draw the Apple logo from memory, and only one got it right. The rest of the results are hilarious and incorrectly lopsided. Okay, so not all of us are artists. I do not have much faith in…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

These Legendary UI Icons Are Now Hanging In a Museum

The original Mac OS icons. The Google Maps pin. The power-on symbol. These marks, which have been with us for years on our screens (or decades, in some cases), are all on display this month at the Museum of Modern Art. In the balcony of MoMA this year, you’ll find a collection of icons and…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Google’s Great New Calendar App Just Came to iOS

The fantastic Google Calendar revamp that Android users have been enjoying for a while now has finally hit iOS. If you’ve got an iPhone/iPad and use Google Calendar at all (or even if you just have a Gmail account), it’s definitely worth checking out—if not for the neat auto-fill-in feature alone. You can read more…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

How Apple’s ResearchKit Could Actually Help Improve Health Care

Our sister site Lifehacker does a deep dive into how Apple’s new ResearchKit project—leveraging user data for medical research—will help the broken health care system. Despite the security concerns. Read on:

Health Meg Neal

The Best Reason Not to Buy an Apple Watch Yet

The Apple Watch is a tantalizing piece of hardware. After years of rumors, you can almost finally slide one onto your body. I’m here to throw a wet blanket on your wrist; almost no one should buy one of these things. Yesterday’s Apple Watch presentation was an exercise in empty spectacle: A big old show…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Apple Has Released a Patch for FREAK

Announcing shiny new hardware wasn’t the only thing Apple did yesterday. Amongst the hubbub of product releases, the folks at Cupertino also released a patch to keep you safe from the decades-old security flaw FREAK. The new patches for both OS X and iOS should clear up any issues brought about by the vulnerability. If…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The CIA Has Been Desperately Trying to Break Apple’s Encryption System

The Intercept is reportingthat Central Intelligence Agency researchers have been waging a multi-year campaign to break the security systems used by Apple on its devices. Top-secret documents obtained by the website via Edward Snowden describe that the researchers have been “targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple’s devices.” The report explains…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Know the Apple Watch Will Be Useless Without These Battery Bracelets

Attenshun, Apple fans! Are you going to buy an Apple Watch? Shut up. I know you are. It is superfluous if you have an iPhone but fuck it—if Tim Cook can’t live without it neither can you. YOU MUST GET IT. There is only one true, big, hairy but: Battery life will suck flea-infested monkey…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple Watch Hands-On: Only Time Will Tell

Today, I strapped a $15,000 watch to my wrist—one with an Apple computer inside. I played with it a bit, and tried to imagine integrating it into my life. But by the time Apple (oh so courteously!) booted me out of the showroom, I couldn’t make up my mind. I’m not talking about whether or…

Tech News Sean Hollister

The Crazy Metallurgy Apple Is Using to Sell Its Watch

Today Apple announced two things about its Apple Watch: The day you can buy it, and the money you’ll fork over for it. But we also, somewhat unexpectedly, heard a lot about the material science behind the Watch too. In the past, Apple has taken one of two routes to showing off its new product…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Video: How the stainless steel Apple Watch is made (in Mordor)

Apple has a video showing off how it makes the stainless steel Apple Watch and it looks a lot like they’re using Tolkien magic to make the watch’s case inside Mount Doom in Mordor. You get to see glimpses of the entire process, from the alloy they use to seeing the molten stages and cold…

Sploid Casey Chan

The New MacBook Isn’t What You Think

Apple’snew MacBook is slick and svelte. It only weighs two pounds! But before you get too excited about how well this tiny (gold) laptop might fit into your life, you should know a little bit about its brains. This is not a retina MacBook Air. The new MacBook has Intel’s Core M inside. Core M…

Tech News Eric Limer

All the Very Personal Data Apple’s ResearchKit Will Collect About You

Apple just announced the details of the new open source software framework that will make it easier for medical researchers to access data about millions of potential subjects. ResearchKit sounds amazing—and potentially riddled with security concerns. Will Apple make it easier for adversaries to access your health data, too? It’s hard to tell. On the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Everything Apple Announced Today

As far as Apple announcements go, today’s “Spring Forward” event was decidedly lacking in big reveals. The only real curveball was Apple’s reveal of a brand new MacBook—one that comes in both gold and space gray, no less. Still, there were some fun little surprises thrown in the mix. So in case you didn’t happen…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The Best Smartwatches That Aren’t the Apple Watch

The Apple Watch is finally coming. It touches down on April 24th. But what makes it so special? Well…not a whole lot except for the fact that it works with an iPhone and is made by Apple, as Mark Wilson very succinctly points out at Co.Design. Here’s everything else that’s already out there, and already…

Tech News Eric Limer

Here’s the $80 Dongle You Need to Use the New MacBook With Your Stuff

Remember the time Apple gave the iPhone a new connector and you had to buy a dongle to use all your old accessories? It’s happening again. But worse. Apple’s new Macbook has a do-everything USB type-C connector. That’s good! But there’s only one on the entire laptop. That’s bad! The idea here is that wireless…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Apple’s New MacBook Hands-On: Gorgeous, Featherlight, But a Bit Awkward

I just lifted Apple’s gorgeous new MacBook with a single hand. For a moment, it felt like I was holding nothing at all. It’s so light. With a laptop in my left paw, a DSLR camera in my right, only one of them felt substantial. It’s the first of many things to love about Apple’s…

Tech News Sean Hollister

The Many, Many Prices of the Apple Watch

Big or small? Gold, stainless steel, or anodized aluminum? Metal, leather, plastic. So many choices at so many prices. It’s going to be ok. Let’s break it down. The Apple Watch Sport Edition Anodized aluminum and not gold 60 percent stronger than standard alloy Colors: silver or space gray The cheapest model possible The “Sane”…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Gold Apple Watch Costs at Least as Much as 100 Pebble Smartwatches

There’s been plenty of speculative chatterover just how much the fanciest of smartwatches—the gold Apple Watch Edition—will cost. And it’s finally official: this little gadget will set you back at least $10,000. Jesus christ. We’ve knowna gold Watch was coming since Apple first announced its smartwatch lineup, and pricing has been cited as potentially being…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

This Tiny Multi-Function Cube Can Save a Dying Smartphone

Wow, People Really Suck at Drawing Apple’s Logo From Memory

These Legendary UI Icons Are Now Hanging In a Museum

Google’s Great New Calendar App Just Came to iOS

How Apple’s ResearchKit Could Actually Help Improve Health Care

The Best Reason Not to Buy an Apple Watch Yet

Apple Has Released a Patch for FREAK

The CIA Has Been Desperately Trying to Break Apple’s Encryption System

You Know the Apple Watch Will Be Useless Without These Battery Bracelets

Apple Watch Hands-On: Only Time Will Tell

The Crazy Metallurgy Apple Is Using to Sell Its Watch

Video: How the stainless steel Apple Watch is made (in Mordor)

The New MacBook Isn’t What You Think

All the Very Personal Data Apple’s ResearchKit Will Collect About You

Everything Apple Announced Today

The Best Smartwatches That Aren’t the Apple Watch

Here’s the $80 Dongle You Need to Use the New MacBook With Your Stuff

Apple’s New MacBook Hands-On: Gorgeous, Featherlight, But a Bit Awkward

The Many, Many Prices of the Apple Watch

The Gold Apple Watch Costs at Least as Much as 100 Pebble Smartwatches

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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