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iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app. Start your iPhones.

Apple Messed Up on the MacBook Air Again

For years Apple’s MacBook Air has languished in partial obsolescence—a great laptop with fantastic battery life and a quizzically outdated screen. 1440 x 900 is a pitifully small resolution for modern times. Sadly, the company hasn’t learned its lesson: the 2015 MacBook Air refresh has the same, outdated display as it has for years. What…

Oh Good God It’s a Gold MacBook

If you’re shiny gold iPhoneor your shiny gold iPadweren’t enough, you can now have an equally absurd, pretty goddamn beautiful gold MacBook to round out your collection. Because we may all be monsters, but look how shiny. The fancy new paintjob is a nice complement to the new MacBook’s sleek, super skinny profile. And as…

Apple TV is not getting updated hardware (at least not yet) but its price just dropped to $70. Great for watching HBO Now on.

Standalone HBO Is Launching Exclusively With Apple

Great news for Apple-loving cord-cutters: When HBO launches HBO Now, its new standalone subscription service, Apple will be its exclusive partner. You’ll be able to watch after you sign up using an iOS device or Apple TV. You won’t need an Apple TV to watch it. HBO Now will also work with iPhones, iPads, and…

Everything We Think The Apple Watch Can Do

The Apple Watch is one of the more intriguing pieces of hardware to come out of Cupertino for some time. It was long-awaited, and at first glance, well-received. So what is it that we’ve exactly been waiting for all this time? Is this the one smartwatch to rule them all or just another in a…

How To Watch the Livestream For Today’s Apple Watch Event (Update Safari!)

We’ll be livebloggin’ the blow-by-blow straight from San Francisco later today as Apple dishes the deets on its supposedly lethal smartwatch. But if you want to use your eyeballs to watch the action live in video form, Apple’s got a stream for you. As always, the official livestream will attract many hundreds of thousands (if…

Could the Next iPhone Be Completely Waterproof?

“Premium smartphones” often means powerful processors and stunning displays wrapped in an all-metal body, but what is consistently left off that feature list, unless your Sony and (formerly) Samsung, is waterproofing. Now, Apple is looking into how its next smartphone could completely repel water without changing design at all. Those rumors stem from a new…

Our Apple Watch Liveblog Starts Right Here, Right Now

It’s about time, right? Time to see what Apple literally has up its sleeves. Time to hear all about the new Apple Watch and other assorted surprises. Are you ready? We’ll be covering it all live for you, right here, on March 9th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. While you’re waiting, check out this…

Am I the Only Person Here Who Goes Phone-Spotting?

I think about smartphones more than any normal person should. I could say it’s part of my job as a gadget blogger to think of these things with irregular frequency, but that would really be a cover up, a convenient lie. The truth is I’m naturally obsessed, and I indulge that obsession to a creeptacular…

Java Now Dumps Adware on to Macs, Too

There are a lot of reason not to use Java—but here’s one more to add to the list. The latest release of Oracle’s ubiquitous software now also dumps a load of crapware on to your Mac. Java has long installed adware onto Windows PCs, but now it also does the same to OS X too.…

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

Congratulations! We all just survived another seven complete revolutions aboard Mothership Earth. Time to celebrate with new apps. This week we got stuff that’s going to make eating food better, Tweeting better, making music better, and chatting securely better. Let’s find out how. Android Caviar As the name suggests, Caviar is food delivery at a…

Ericsson Is Suing to Block Sales of iPhones in the U.S.

Ericsson has announced that it’s filing seven new lawsuits in a U.S. court against Apple for infringing its patents—and it’s asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block iPhones from sale, too. All told, Ericsson claims that Apple infringes a total of 41 of its patents. They describe some of the fundamental ways mobile devices…

The Golden Age of Jailbreaking Is Over

Your smartphone may be as powerful as a computer, but it’s also hobbled. You can only install apps on it from the walled garden of the official app store. Your options are limited to the small, vetted collection of “approved” apps as opposed to the unlimited options available for PCs. That’s where jailbreaking comes in.…

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

Hello fellow app enthusiasts. This week was a good one for smartphone app stores across the board. An automation juggernaut makes putting your digital life on autopilot even easier. Sending short video messages is now as easy as texting. Sending email is as easy as texting. Sending texts is as easy as texting! Just kidding…

What to Expect From Apple’s Big Watch Event on March 9th

Yes, we know a whoooole lot about the Apple Watch by this point, but not when exactly it’s coming. But now, Apple’s sent out invites for a “Spring forward” event on March 9th. When Apple announced its watch without actually releasing it, it gave up some of the magic its had in the past. And…

Apple Has to Pay $533 Million for a Patent Infringement Within iTunes

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ruled that Apple must pay $532.9 million because iTunes infringed three patents owned by a Texas-based patent licensing called company Smartflash. The patents—relating to digital rights management, data storage and managing access through payment systems—were said to be used by Apple without Smartflash’s permission.…

Here Are Apple’s Diverse (And Racist? Jaundiced?) Emoji

Apple just pushed the latest OS X update seed to developers and hiding inside is a nice surprise: a brand new roster of racially diverse emoji. Finally! It’s been a long time coming. People have been crowing for years about the lack of racial diversity in Apple’s emoji selection. However, Apple’s consistently passed the buck…

What’s the Worst Reason You’ve Heard for Switching to Apple or Android?

People are always howling about how you NEED to switch to Apple or Android devices. iOS is the best! Android is the … whatever rhymes with Android and is awesome! Sometimes they have perfectly good reasons for switching. Other times, not so much. What are the worst reasons you’ve heard? Hey it’s Friday afternoon and…

Apple Is Quietly Repairing MacBook Pros With Faulty Video for Free

PSA: Apple has launched a repair program for MacBook Pros from 2011 to 2013 displaying video problems. People with video issues who have the affected models can get them fixed for free, and people who already paid to get their laptops fixed can get a refund. This includes MacBooks with scrambled video, video that won’t…