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The Boy Wonder Hacker Comex Is No Longer Working for Apple Because He Forgot to Reply to an Email

Comex, the 20-year-old boy wonder hacker who created JailbreakMe, was hired to be an intern for Apple last year. The move was heralded as Apple smartly snatching up prodigious talent. Now, just one year later, Apple has kinda, sorta fired Comex. Why? Because he forgot to reply to an email. https://gizmodo.com/apple-hires-jailbreakme-creator-comex-as-an-intern-5834607 Comex, or Nicholas Allegra,…

The Wider Image: Legendary Photography From Reuters

Reuters pulls from a cadre of the most talented, most daring photographers in the business to capture some of world’s most iconic photos. The picture of the situation room when SEAL Team 6 took out Osama? Reuters. The photo of Sadaam Hussein’s statue coming down in 2003? Reuters. And now you can experience all the…

iPod Nano Review: The Best MP3 Player Ever, For Whatever That’s Worth

Seven generations of iPod nano evolution have culminated in something pretty special. The latest iteration of Apple’s mini music player is its thinnest, has the biggest screen ever (for a Nano), and tosses in Bluetooth to boot. Is it great? Yes. Is it enough to make you care about MP3 players again? Not really. What…

Nintendo Is Investigating Foxconn for Child Labor Violations, Too

Earlier this week, Foxconn owned up to using underage workers in one of its factories. That’s made Nintendo—whose Wii U is also assembled at Foxconn—suspicious, so it’s launching its own investigation into the Chinese manufacturer’s labor practices. https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-admits-violating-child-labor-laws-5952126 Nintendo said it has talked to Foxconn and made it clear that if it discovers violations, Foxconn…

Apple Forced to Run Public Apology in 14pt Arial

Having lost its appeal against the UK High Court of Justice’s ruling, which decided Samsung’s tablet designs didn’t infringe on the iPad, Apple is being forced to make a public apology. The best bit? The judge in question has described how it has to do it. Apple will have to post notices on its website,…

Media-sharing app Color might not be as dead as we thought: apparently Apple is buying it. But for what?

The Real Meaning and Future of Apple’s Mantra: Designed in California

Apple is a hardware design company. It owns ideas not factories. And because it runs its own operating systems, an intrinsic part of the design of its products is software. But this crucial area is showing signs of weakness as competitors copy its innovations. 1. Design is not hardware. Announcing the launch of his hardware…

Is This the iPad Mini’s Display?

The iPad Mini is coming next week, and there’s a lot we think we already know about this dwarf. The parts keep piling up, and now we have the device’s rumored display to add to the heap. https://gizmodo.com/the-ipad-mini-is-coming-october-23rd-5952134 Wireless parts company ETrade Supply posted pictures of touchscreen that’s around 8-inches, is 162mm long by 124mm…

Hyperhyped, stupid Color app finally realizes it’s dead one year after its stillbirth.

WSJ: Foxconn Exec Says iPhone 5 Is the ‘Most Difficult Device’ It Ever Made

Apple touted the fit, finish, and technical wizardry required to produce the iPhone 5. Apparently that wasn’t just marketing fluff. According to an unnamed Foxconn exec who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, it really is a pain in the ass to manufacture. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-impossible-design-comes-at-a-very-real-pr-5949429 Here’s what the exec had to say: “The iPhone 5 is…

Amazon Just Beat Apple to the Classroom

On a freezing, cloudless day last January in New York, Apple presented to the world its vision for the future of education. It was a clear-eyed argument for bringing tablets into classrooms, a blueprint for fusing cutting-edge technology with advanced learning techniques. https://gizmodo.com/apples-ipad-textbooks-everything-you-need-to-know-abou-5877500 But the future doesn’t get built on no-bid contracts. And slowly, steadily—especially…

iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S III: Which One Lasts Longer in a Blender?

The iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III are two of the very best phones you can buy right now and though Android and iPhone fans will never come to an agreement on which phone is better, there is a way to settle which is tougher: blend ’em. https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-vs-android-fanboy-wars-in-one-gif-5951243 Blendtec, who has been doing this…

The New iPod Touch Doesn’t Have an Ambient Light Sensor Because It’s Too Thin, Says Phil Schiller

The new iPod Touch is so impossibly thin that in the race to get skinny, it had to get rid of a few features: specifically, the ambient light sensor that could adjust the brightness of the screen from the brightness of the room the iPod Touch was in. That’s completely gone in the new iPod…

The iPad Mini Is Coming October 23rd

Apple has just sent out its last round of invites for the year, and it’s as official as it gets: The iPad Mini is coming next week. Go ahead and mark off October 23rd on your calendars. It should be quite a show. As the invite above indicates, the event will be held at 10am…

Beats Pill: Is This The $200 Bluetooth Speaker That Slays the Jambox?

The Jawbone Jambox was a pretty good bluetooth speaker, if not entirely perfect. But it had the benefit of being one of the first portable bluetooth speakers to combine design, affordability and ease of use along with quality. But in the Bluetooth market there’s always room for improvement and though we’ve seen a couple of…

12 New iPad Minis Plus Updated iMacs Allegedly Coming Out Next Week

Like iPhone 5, the leaks have now overflown Apple’s secrecy bucket. The iPad mini launch seems imminent. AppleInsider claims to have new exclusive information: there will be 12 models, they say. And updated iMacs too. https://gizmodo.com/this-looks-like-the-first-photo-of-a-fully-working-ipad-5944173 They claim there are 12 models, each in black and white, making up for 24 options. Four storage capacities…

Logitech’s Wi-Fi Webcam Turns Your MacBook Into a Broadcast Studio

Built-in webcams have been a standard option on Macs for the past six or seven years. So it seems a bit odd for Logitech to release an external webcam that’s designed exclusively for Apple hardware. But if you’re tired of your camera being stuck above your display, the Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam will give you a…

Foxconn Admits Violating Child Labor Laws

Just a week after riots broke out at Foxconn over working conditions at the Chinese plant that manufactures Apple’s glorious new iPhone 5, the company is mixed up in another labor imbroglio. This time, it’s over the admitted use of child labor. But sheath thy pichforks because Foxconn’s not entirely to blame. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-impossible-design-comes-at-a-very-real-pr-5949429 CNET reports…

iPod Nano Teardown: Try Not to Break It

iFixit has taken apart the seventh-gen iPod nano to get a look at its innards, and found that this guy—like most Apple products of late—is pretty difficult to repair. https://gizmodo.com/why-you-really-really-really-need-applecare-on-that-r-5932881 Basically all the important parts have been soldered to the logic board—the battery, the lightning connector, the button cable, and the headphone jack. The battery—which…

Inside the Chip Apple Uses to Stop You Buying Cheap Cables

People looking for cheap, third-party lightning adapters and cables for their new iPhone 5 are out of luck because of an authenticator device hidden in the official products. Here’s what’s lurking within that infuriating piece of technology. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-chip-apple-is-using-to-stop-you-from-buying-c-5945889 Chipworks has torn right into a Lightning-to-USB cable, and found a total of four chips lurking within…