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After the iPod’s success, Apple SVP Phil Schiller says people wanted the company to make a car. Huh? [Twitter]

Video Shows Alleged iPhone 5 Display Isn’t Just Longer—It’s Stronger

A Chinese site claims to have the leaked iPhone 5 screen. It shows a much longer, more durable display, but bear in mind that this could be complete and total bullshit. If you don’t want to watch a very detailed clip where a guy who appears to have condoms on his fingers does a side…

Is the iPhone 5 Out in the Wild?

Somewhere, maybe even right now, someone is already using the iPhone 5. At least that’s what this screenshot would have you believe. TechCrunch says an anonymus developer noticed an “iPhone 5,2” device pop up on their server logs, which means the next Apple handset is being tested as we speak. Which makes sense, as it’s…

Judge to Samsung: You Can’t Use Sci-Fi Films as Evidence in Court

Samsung has a tough time on its hands battling Apple over tablet patents. But in the process of fighting hard, it seems to have made some questionable calls when it comes to choosing evidence—including the use of sci-fi footage to prove its case. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-exec-finds-fighting-over-rectangles-unreasona-5930338 Samsung had hoped that it could use footage from 2001: A…

This Photojournalist Is Capturing the Olympics With Just an iPhone

The Guardian’s Dan Chung is photographing the entire Olympics using just an iPhone 4S and processing app Snapseed. Though it seems to have taken him a while to find his feet, the results are becoming sensationally good—and with his updates continuing until the end of the games, there’s far more to come. Go take a…

Add a Splash of Color to Your iPhone

The design of the iPhone is something of a work of art on its own. But sometimes staring at the same thing can get boring. Accordingly, painter Jenny Vorwaller has turned 52 of her watercolors into multicolored cases. The abstract pieces run $35. The only caveat here is if you plan to upgrade when the…

Samsung’s New Superfast Chips Could Fuel Your Future iPhone

Samsung has just announced some superfast new chips and they might one day power an iPhone. The company claims the Pro Class 1500 line is the Usain Bolt of flash memory cards—four times speedier than predecessors, and possibly the fastest chips around. They can read data at 140 MB per second and write it at…

What’s Apple Doing With This Mystery Building?

North Carolina: home of BBQ, beaches, and Apple’s gi-freaking-normous data center. It’s where iCloud lives, and maybe Siri! And now the company is putting the finishing touches on a new center. Why? Nobody really knows. So Wired checked it out. From above, Wired was able to spot some interesting physical details of the 20,000 square…

The iPad’s Smart Cover Could Someday Be a Second Display

Apple is trying to patent a Smart Cover for the iPad that has an embedded secondary display. Or in other words: Eat it, Surface. The cover would use a connector on the side of the iPad that would supply data and power to the cover. Here’s Apple’s description from the application: [The] accessory device comprising:…

No, the next iPhone won’t cost $800. Unless it’s unlocked. Please stop being dumb, Twitter. [Buzzfeed]

Why Apple TV Just Became Apple’s Most Important Product

There are coincidences in this world, and it’s important not to read too much into them. Pandora playing the song stuck in your head doesn’t make you psychic. But then there are coincidences you can’t help but think might mean a little bit more. Like, say, three heavy hitter holdouts all hopping on Apple TV…

Apple Ditched Curved Glass iPhone Because it Was Too Expensive

The information about Apple’s early iPhone prototypes and concepts just keeps coming. According to a court filing, Apple considered building a phone with shaped glass, but it never happened because it would have cost too much cash money. Look at those images above. Trippy concept, right? Network World discovered the deposition of former Apple designer…

Sharp: We’re Shipping New iPhone Displays This Month

The next iPhone is on the way, and a handful of rumors point to a launch on September 12th. Now, Sharp has announced that it’s shipping screens for the new device this month—so it looks like those dates could be believable. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said that “shipments will start in August” at…

Wolfram Cat Breeds Reference App: You Can Haz Cat Factz

The internet has done a lot for the rise of cats. With the deluge of feline videos and gifs, you’d think the four-legged furballs actually ran the world wide web. But what are cats really like? Answer all your burning questions with Wolfram Alpha’s Cat Breeds Reference App. What does it do? Gives you every…

How to Keep One Ear Open When Using Headphones

We often think of listening to music with headphones as creating “a soundtrack for our lives.” But when you think about it, the music in films usually plays in the background to enhance the setting, not drown it out. Unless you live in a persistent montage scene (where the music comes to the fore) or…

You Can Now Configure Your MacBook Pro Retina In Any Way You Want

This is great news! Instead of having to deal with Apple pre-configured MacBook Pro Retina options, now you can freely configure your machine in any way you want. Processor, memory and storage, you can combine them all for your optimal performance/price point ratio. For example, you can select top speed in the processor without having…

Would You Buy This iPhone Prototype?

We’ve seen plenty of iPhone and iPad prototypes as this legal battle against Samsung unfolds. But most of them were left prototypes for a reason—visually speaking. However, this latest one unearthed by the Verge caught my eye in a different way. https://gizmodo.com/earliest-iphone-4-and-ipad-prototypes-look-pretty-ridic-5929433 Apple revealed the tidbit yesterday that the iPhone was birthed from a 2003…

The Man Responsible for the iPhone and iPad CPU Just Left Apple for AMD

Apple’s homegrown processors in their iOS devices are pretty awesome, able to outperform—and in some cases, blow away—other mobile chipsets. Jim Keller, one of the men largely responsible for that feat, is leaving. Where is he going? AMD. Ouch. https://gizmodo.com/inside-apples-a5x-chipset-dual-core-cpu-quad-core-gpu-5891159 According to 9to5mac, Keller was an employee at PA Semi when the company was acquired…

Samsung Throws a Temper Tantrum in Court Battle Against Apple and Leaks Dismissed Evidence to the Press

When a judge decides to dismiss evidence you feel would make your case in a patent lawsuit, you have one of two options: a) You can sit back and deal with it like a timid little tktkt or b) you can fire back and choose another public-facing channel to disseminate your information. Samsung chose the…

The Portable iPhone Turntable Setup For Nomadic DJs

Pushing the limits of what can be considered an iPod/iPhone dock, Philips’ FWP3200D is like an all-in-one DJ stage show with a pair of 5.25-inch subwoofers that glow and pulse to your music—and a set of digital turntables letting you mix and scratch your beats. The rig can access music from two iPhones or iPods…