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There Is an Even Smaller Apple TV (Updated)

According to a FCC filing, Apple has a smaller Apple TV in the works. What’s weird is that it’s not that much smaller than the current Apple TV—the small version would be 93.78 square millimeters as opposed to the current version’s 98 square mm. Everything else about the FCC filing on the Apple TV looks…

Emoji Storytelling Is Objectively the Best Use of Emoji

This is the Lord’s work and everyone with an iPhone needs to know about it now. You can make amazing, adorable picture stories with emojis. The trick is real, it works, and it just requires a little bit of creativity (and the emoji keyboard turned on). Look, here is Mr. Moon rising in the sky.…

Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie Makeup Is Totally Unreal—He IS Jobs

Whoa. We’ve seen Ashton Kutcher in a scene from early in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, and had an early review of the film as well, but this is the first we’ve seen of his makeup for the latter day Jobs. And man, it’s something. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-jobs-the-steve-jobs-movie-starring-ashto-5978671 That’s Kutcher on the left, if you didn’t notice.…

500px Is Back in the App Store After All the Porn Bullshit

Holy crap, boobs! Apple last week excommunicated 500px, a photo-sharing app, from the App Store because apparently it made it too easy for people to find nudie pics. Looks like it’s been cleansed and baptized, though, because Apple has welcomed 500px back into the fold. https://gizmodo.com/apple-removed-a-photo-app-from-the-app-store-because-ar-5978202 The Cupertino Prude Brigade said in a statement that…

Nine People Who Actually Need a 128GB iPad

The monster 128GB iPad is here, but you almost definitely don’t need it. For a solid grand, you might as well buy a MacBook Air or three years’ worth of toilet paper. Unless, of course, you are one of the following. https://gizmodo.com/the-128gb-ipad-is-real-its-here-and-its-almost-defini-5979812 Doctors. You have tons of charts and reference materials that you’ll need at…

The 128GB iPad Is Real, It’s Here, and It’s Almost Definitely Not For You

As expected, Apple let a 128GB iPad out of the bag today. And there’s almost zero chance you should buy it. https://gizmodo.com/does-apple-have-a-fancier-ipad-4-up-its-sleeve-update-5979453 The new iPad has the same retina display as its brothers, and the same design, and the same guts, with one notable exception: a metric crap-ton of storage. More storage than any decent…

THX Tune-Up App: Tweak Any TV From Your Phone

While it may look great in the store, your new flat screen is going to need to be calibrated once you get it home to deliver the best viewing experience. While hardcore videophiles will want to invest in a professional service, this new calibration app from THX covers the basic adjustments that the rest of…

Is This What the Next iPad Will Look Like?

9to5Mac has an image that shows a prototype design for the next iPad and guess what, it looks a lot like the iPad Mini. These pictures are only unconfirmed images, but if proven to be real, it looks like the big iPad might follow in the iPad Mini’s footstep of lovely chamfered edges. Taking a…

This Is the Single Worst Way to Begin Your Kickstarter Pitch

Want to know how I know your Kickstarter project isn’t going to get funded? You started with “oh hey, I didn’t see you there” which, in the minds of consumers, means you’re either an unobservant stooge who can’t be trusted with money or we’re really bad at hiding. And, as we all know, rule number…

An iOS 6.1 Jailbreak for iPhone 5 Is Definitely Probably Maybe Coming This Sunday

iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips and the fancy new Apple devices they come in have been out of luck. But no longer! Probably. With today’s release of iOS 6.1, jailbreak release rumors…

Facebook for iOS now lets you send in-app video and voice messages—because voicemails weren’t annoying enough already.

Gravity-Controlled Pac-Man Is Now Available for iOS and Android—and It Looks Quite Fun

I thought Not Pacman—a version of Pac-Man that uses gravity to control the yellow hungry monster—was awesome and needed to be ported to iOS and Android ASAP. Gizmodo reader Pierre-Yves Gatouillat agreed with that opinion and he did just that. He sent this via email: https://gizmodo.com/gravity-controlled-pac-man-must-come-to-my-phone-asap-5975860 I read your article two weeks ago about Not…

Why Facebook Will Fall Like the Roman Empire

John Naughton at the Guardian has a perfect—albeit obvious—observation: Despite their overwhelming dominance, Facebook and Apple will eventually fall. “History should teach us that for today’s technology industry titans, the only way is down.” That goes for Google, too. And Amazon. It’s inevitable. Naughton’s argument—familiar to historians and Guns ‘n Roses fans alike—is that nothing…

Go Get iOS 6.1 Right Now

iOS 6.1 is out now and ready for your downloading pleasure. It’s a relatively minor update, including LTE support for more carriers, Fandango ticket purchasing through Siri in the U.S., and the ability for iTunes Match subscribers to download individual songs from iCloud. Apple is also adding improved iOS 6.1 APIs for developers, making it…

Following Steve Jobs’ Insane Fruit Diet Put Ashton Kutcher in the Hospital

Ashton Kutcher, method actor, truly goes the distance to capture the essence of a character. In the case of portraying Steve Jobs for the upcoming indie flick jOBS, Kutcher put himself on a diet of strictly fruits, nuts, and seeds, mimicking Jobs ‘fruitarian’ lifestyle. https://gizmodo.com/jobs-review-a-satisfying-experience-for-an-apple-fan-5979291 The results? Inspiration, insight, and one fucked up pancreas. With…

Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone

I’ve always hated BlackBerry phones. Disgracefully ugly bricks they were—until the BlackBerry Z10. The BlackBerry Z10 is hot. Truly beautiful, elegant hardware. If the OS is as nice as it seemed at CES, I will totally snatch one up. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-clearest-pictures-of-the-blackberry-10-l-s-5967736 These BlackBerry Z10 vs iPhone 5 comparative renders by our friend Martin Hajek are great.…

Does Apple Have a Fancier iPad 4 Up Its Sleeve? (Updated)

Scraps of evidence are appearing across the internet, so 9to5mac claims, that point towards Apple maybe, possibly, perhaps readying an update for the iPad. 9to5mac has reported that devs are finding code in the soon-to-be-released iOS 6.1 that point towards a new device, featuring 128GB of storage. Adding some fuel to that fire is a…

Tim Cook rounded up Apple employees for a town-hall style meeting last week and told ’em: be grateful this isn’t Exxon.

jOBS Review: A Satisfying Experience for an Apple Fan

Gizmodo reader Seth Kinkaid was one of the first people to watch jOBS—the first Steve Jobs’ biopic starring Ashton Kutcher—at Sundance 2013. These are his impressions. Today I saw jOBS at Sundance, the story of a young Steve Jobs, the now legendary co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer. And although I know it may be…

Apple Says Fewer Illegal Teens Now Building Your iPads

It’s bad enough when overworked Chinese adults are killing themselves and rioting because of our Apple lust—adding kids under 16 is just awful. But Apple says it’s cutting these industrious, exploited kiddos out of the supply chain. https://gizmodo.com/overworked-and-in-danger-the-full-foxconn-labor-report-5897593 According to a Supplier Responsibility “progress report” released last night, Apple is trying to do the right…