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What Is This Mystery Chinese Card Found In a MacBook Pro Box?

A guy opened his new MacBook Pro box and found this laminated light blue card with Chinese text on the front and back. What is it? A desperate message asking for help? A fortune cookie message? A MacRumors forum member claims that it is just a Foxconn worker’s card, which “basically [reminds the worker of]…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 13

You Won’t Believe How Dumb These iOS 6 Maps Mistakes Are

When you’re ironing out a whole new mapping platform, like Apple is, some small details are sure to slip through the cracks. Names of streets, wrong turns, confusing oceans and deserts thousands of miles apart, the spellings of some small to… Hold it. Yep. Apple’s new Maps app confuses Greenland for the Indian Ocean, the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 13

WSJ: Ping Is Dead

Quick: name three things you’ve ever used Ping for. Exactly. After almost two years of rotting unused like some foul carton of yogurt in our iTunes fridge, the WSJ says Apple is admitting its failure. Phew. The WSJ, citing “sources close to the company,” says it’ll be a quick and clean death for the pseudo-Twitter…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 13

The iPhone 4 Won’t Get FaceTime Over 3G Either

We heard that the iPhone 4 and 3GS were going to get stiffed over Apple’s new Maps app and its fancy Flyover and turn-by-turn directions, but it seems there are more things the older iPhones won’t get out of iOS 6, including 3G FaceTime. You’ll have to stick to Wi-Fi to FaceTime if you’re using…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk Jun 13

Retina MacBook Pro Teardown: It’s Locked Up Like Fort Knox

Above, you’ll find Apple’s gorgeous new MacBook Pro in all its retina display, big batteried glory, compliments of iFixIt. But look a little closer, and you’ll find that Apple’s made it virtually impossible to tinker with your brand new amazing. So, uh, let’s hope it doesn’t break. While iFixIt was rightly effusive in its praise…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 13

iOS Apps Can Run on a PlayBook, Kinda

If you somehow happen to own a BlackBerry PlayBook: we’re very sorry for you. But still, don’t be too sad, because apparently it’s possible to port iOS apps so that they run on your awful piece of hardware! A user by the name of Businesscat2000 has posted a handful of videos which show iOS apps…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 13

Thunderbolt Software Update For OS X Causes Boot Failure

Since Monday’s WWDC keynote, Apple has been pushing out a range of minor updates which ready OS X for new hardware. Among them is a fairly trivial 537 KB Thunderbolt update—which happens to be causing some massive boot issues. The update, Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2, provides support for Apple’s new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 13

Caution: This Tease of a Commercial May Cause You to Drool Over the Retina MacBook Pro Even More

Skinny. Shiny. Speedy. Want one. Ugh. Want one rill bad. [MacRumors]

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 13

Check Out How Insane This Tiny New Detail in iOS 6 Is

We’ve shown you the big guns of Apple’s newest software tiara. We’ve showed you the subtle, overlooked features. But this? This is just a crazy addition—so small and precise I had to double check my phone. Giz reader Zach wrote in after noticing something strange going on in the new Music app: I noticed today…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 12

Apple’s New Maps App Wants You to Drive Off a Bridge

Apple finally has turn-by-turn navigation. Great, sort of. Except that its new Maps icon wants to murder you. Noted cartography blogger John Herrman at FWD points out that the path that the icon sets out denoting turn-by-turn is actually off of an overpass and will kill your dumb ass. Not the most hospitable introduction from…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 12

Quip: Make Sense of Your Twitter Feed

If the official Twitter iPad app isn’t for you, you might use some kind of alternative. Quip is just one option, and a pretty useful one at that. What does it do? It builds on basic Twitter features to provide a way to organize your feed. You can apply various filters, so if you only…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 12

Tim Cook Reveals Secret Mac Pro in an Email to Random Apple Fan

Though the Mac Pro got a half-assed update yesterday that was promptly forgotten today, it’s really been on life support for years. But don’t worry professional people! Tim Cook has officially said that Apple is “working on something really great” for the Mac Pro and that it’ll be coming next year. Sadly, it’s “late” next…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 12

Apple: Nevermind, There’s No New Mac Pro

Perhaps realizing that calling yesterday’s Mac Pro update “new” was like hammering a nail into your wall and calling it a renovation, Apple fessed up today: there’s nothing that new about it. The Mac Pros got a spec bump. A pretty insulting spec bump, really—slightly faster processors. That’s it. No Thunderbolt, no USB 3.0, nothing…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 12

Humans Love Apple Events Because Humans Love Spaceships

Dan Lyons, the guy who used to be Fake Steve Jobs, has a story today that asks “once upon a time we put a man on the moon. Now we pee our pants over retina displays. WTF happened to us?” The answer is really easy: We’re the same as we’ve always been. We love to…

Space & Spaceflight Mat Honan Jun 12

All the New HD Wallpapers from the Latest OS X Mountain Lion Beta

The new MacBook Pro retina screens look crazy good, but you need pretty stuff to look at on it, too. At the very very very least, that means nice-looking wallpaper. Here’s what Apple’s got loaded up in the Mountain Lion beta so far. There are 34 options in all, at 3200×2000 resolution, and you can…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 12

MacBook Air 2012 Teardown: Same Skinny Body, New Beefy Guts

Sure the new MacBook Air is a fraternal twin of the last few versions, but it’s got some nice new guts that are showing up in Apple products for the first time, like the MagSafe 2. As usual, iFixit’s ripping the new machine to shreds. They’re not quite done with the teardown yet, but so…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 12

The Best iOS 6 Features Nobody Is Talking About (Updated)

iOS 6, your cup runneth over. The new future brain of your iPhone and iPad is lovelier than ever, and chock full of new features worth gabbing about. But what about the unsung stuff? Here are the coolest quiet additions. Wake up to a song Marimba gets a little stale. Now you can select any…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 12

Tim Cook Isn’t Steve Jobs—So What?

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook should be happy. Yesterday’s Apple show-n-tell was the most important since the original iPad’s introduction—an action-packed gangbang of hot new hardware and shiny software updates, rather than the snooze fests that were starting to become the norm even when Steve Jobs was on stage. In just 90 minutes, Apple drenched the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 12

The Hyperjuice Plug: Two iPads, One Charger

If you travel withe a bunch of gadgets, this one’s for you—accessory maker Sanho has dropped the HyperJuice Plug, a charger capable of juicing up two iPads at a time. The company claims it’s the world’s first 15,600 mAh battery pack that can fuel a pair of Apple slates simultaneously. Its dual ports equally distribute…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 12

What Apple Didn’t Announce Yesterday—And Why It Matters

Apple dropped a lot of shiny new products and some gorgeous software to drool over at yesterday’s action-packed WWDC keynote. Among them, a beautiful new retina display MacBook Pro, refreshed MacBook Airs, Mountain Lion OS X, and iOS 6, along with a few other goodies that didn’t necessarily warrant an explicit mention. For the most…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 12

What Is This Mystery Chinese Card Found In a MacBook Pro Box?

You Won’t Believe How Dumb These iOS 6 Maps Mistakes Are

WSJ: Ping Is Dead

The iPhone 4 Won’t Get FaceTime Over 3G Either

Retina MacBook Pro Teardown: It’s Locked Up Like Fort Knox

iOS Apps Can Run on a PlayBook, Kinda

Thunderbolt Software Update For OS X Causes Boot Failure

Caution: This Tease of a Commercial May Cause You to Drool Over the Retina MacBook Pro Even More

Check Out How Insane This Tiny New Detail in iOS 6 Is

Apple’s New Maps App Wants You to Drive Off a Bridge

Quip: Make Sense of Your Twitter Feed

Tim Cook Reveals Secret Mac Pro in an Email to Random Apple Fan

Apple: Nevermind, There’s No New Mac Pro

Humans Love Apple Events Because Humans Love Spaceships

All the New HD Wallpapers from the Latest OS X Mountain Lion Beta

MacBook Air 2012 Teardown: Same Skinny Body, New Beefy Guts

The Best iOS 6 Features Nobody Is Talking About (Updated)

Tim Cook Isn’t Steve Jobs—So What?

The Hyperjuice Plug: Two iPads, One Charger

What Apple Didn’t Announce Yesterday—And Why It Matters

First Statewide Data Center Ban Passed by Maine Legislature

FCC Exempts Netgear from Foreign-Made Router Ban for Some Reason

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‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

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