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Apple Hacked (Updated)

Reuters says Apple was targeted by the same crew that recently hit Facebook, and managed to infect a “small number” of the company’s computers. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-got-hacked-last-month-and-is-just-telling-you-5984666 At the moment, Apple says “there was no evidence that any data left” its facilities, but that could change as the firm works with law enforcement. There are few details…

Apple just pushed out iOS 6.1.2 to fix an Exchange calendar bug but no word on whether this fixes the lock screen snafu. https://gizmodo.com/ios-6-1-security-risk-anyone-can-bypass-your-iphones-l-5984190

Bad news: Microsoft has quietly raised the price of Office for Mac by 17 percent. [Computer World]

The Best Smartphone Camera

A zillion new smartphones are going to be announced soon at Mobile World Congress, each promising camera advancements that may or may not live up to the hype. Before we get there, though, we wanted to take stock of how good the cameras are in the smartphones you can buy now. Here’s how the flagships…

This Is Where Apple Sources All Its Components (Spoiler: It Ain’t Just China!)

This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple’s production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it’s interesting to see that the rest of world represents, too. Each point on the interactive map represents an individual supplier, provided with complete context—from Analog Devices in Limerick,…

These Toy iPhones Come Jailbroken Right Out of The Box

If you want to jailbreak your real iPhone, you’re going to have to put a little work into it. But if you pick up one of these toys, it’ll come that way straight from the factory floor. If you look closely, you’ll see there’s a Cydia icon right there, smack-dab on the homescreen. Sure, it’s…

The Burden of Apple iOS

When Apple released the iPhone in 2007, they released iPhone OS (later known as iOS) with it. The device and the operating system necessitated each other. The two were birthed into the world together on the same stage. The industrial design of Apple’s new phone was a drastic departure from other mobile devices at that…

There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Apple Product

By now, the year-old claim that Apple makes people work on fake products is well-known. How scandalous. To ensure the loyalty of new hires, the company puts them on “dummy” projects before letting them work on the real goods. Too bad it’s not true. https://gizmodo.com/apple-makes-new-employees-work-on-fake-products-until-a-5880510 Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica did some digging with sources…

Staples executives have announced that the company will start selling Apple products in the US.

Wahoo’s “Reflect” Bike Computer Remotely Measures Splits Without Breaking Stride

Bike-based odometers make tracking your fitness levels relatively simple. Relatively. You still have to pry the little bastards off your handle bars and sync them with a PC after every ride—not that that’s a hassle or anything. With the RFLKT monitor from Wahoo, syncing is no longer necessary. Instead of drawing upon an exterior CPU…

The Apple Store is now selling a shorter (0.5 m) lightning to USB cable. Price, unfortunately, has been left intact.

iOS 6.1 Security Risk: Anyone Can Bypass Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

So, iOS 6.1 hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour. So far it’s been plagued with connection issues, battery woes, and now it’s sadly insecure, too. You can bypass any lockcode on an iPhone using this straightforward sequence of button presses. The instructions are pretty simple. First you have to pretend to turn the phone off, then…

Apple has lost the iPhone trademark in Brazil (but it’ll still be able to sell sell iPhone-branded handsets there).

How Stupid Are You Willing to Look for Apple’s Amazing Magical iWatch?

There’s no such thing as the Apple iWatch, and maybe there never will be. But if Cupertino does start selling futurustic Jetsons wrist wear, you need to prepare for one thing: looking like a jackass in public. Worth it? Let’s not ignore the fact that we’re in dumb, murky waters here, discussing the fashionable future…

The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper

Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700. That means that the basic 13-inch Retina Pro—with 128GB of storage—is now slightly more wallet friendly. For $1,700, the same price as the old entry-level model,…

Bloomberg: Apple Has 100 Product Designers Working on the Apple Watch

As silly as it may sound, more and more people are reporting about an Apple watch that maybe its time to put away those Dick Tracy jokes (never!). This time, Bloomberg throws its hat in the mix saying that Apple has “a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may…

Thirst: The Abridged Version of the Day’s News

You read the internet from cover to cover, but rather selectively. Thirst learns the parts you want to read and leaves out the ones you’d rather just skim. What does it do? It combs the web to find the best, most current stories and delivers them to you in an easy to read format. You…

Adobe’s Developing a Brilliant Photo Editing App You Can Just Talk To

Photography is getting easier thanks to cameras that are able to better evaluate and automatically choose the best settings for a given scene. But photo editing, that’s still a bit of a mystery to most amateur photographers. So Adobe—the makers of Photoshop—are working with the University of Michigan to develop an extremely intelligent photo editing…

Good news Girls enthusiasts—HBO Go is finally getting AirPlay support starting today, and so is Showtime!

A Jailbreak for iOS 6.1.1 Is Already Here

iOS 6.1.1 was released yesterday, and there’s already a jailbreak available for it. The Evasi0n jailbreak tool which hit the internet last week has been updated to v1.3, and it will now liberate everything. As Redmond Pie notes, the 6.1.1 update wasn’t really about patching up the new iPhone 5 jailbreak—it was about fixing cellular…