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Watch John Oliver Thoughtfully Explain Why Apple Is Right About Encryption

“The FBI and its supporters can be weirdly dismissive of [the encryption] issue, in ways that indicate they don’t fully understand how technology works—or are pretending not to,” explained Jon Oliver on Last Week Tonight. And so begins his wonderful take on the state of encryption. This 20-minute segment sees Oliver taking on the entire…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple’s Next Event Is March 21

Apple just sent out invites for its March 21st event, where we’ll most likely see a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro or Air 3 or whatever they’re going to call it and Apple’s return to super small phones with the 4-inch iPhone SE. Loop is just a reference to the Apple’s campus, as one commenter points…

Tech News Darren Orf

Justice Department Wants to Overturn New York iPhone Unlocking Ruling

The Justice Department has announced that it wants to overturn a ruling that currently protects an iPhone in New York from being unlocked. Just last week, Judge James Orenstein rejected the government’s requests to unlock an iPhone that was involved in a New York drug case. The government had argued the phone should unlocked under…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Hillary Clinton Has No Real Opinion on Apple’s FBI Battle

Human focus group Hillary Clinton finally weighed in on Apple’s legal dispute with the FBI. Of course, since this case perfectly divides public opinion, Hillary managed to take a hard, presidential stand behind absolutely no one. Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Clinton said “There has got to be some way to avoid breaking data encryption…

Tech News Chris Mills

Every Apple Product That Is Probably in the Works

Everyone always wants to know what Apple is up to, and Apple is always trying to hide what they’re up to. Luckily, we have the internet, which is chock full of rumors and obsessive analysis from Apple fanboys. We already know Apple is probably planning a March event where it will reveal updates to many…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

An Incomplete List of Things the Federal Government Should Stop Using Thanks to Apple

In the latest salvo of the ongoing Apple vs FBI salvo, Florida GOP congressman David Jolly has introduced a (doomed) bill banning the federal government from purchasing unpatriotic, terrorist-loving iPhones. Taking this logic to the extreme, here’s a more complete list of products that should be boycotted. By the deadline for filing amicus briefs today,…

Tech News Chris Mills

How to Use a Swinging iPhone to Create a Low-Budget Bullet-Time Effect

Earlier this month a Swiss freeskier named Nicolas Vuignier posted an amazing YouTube video featuring bullet-time footage of a run down a snow-covered mountain. More impressive than the video, though, is the simple rig Vuignier designed and built to capture that footage with just a single iPhone. The device, which Vuignier calls the Centriphone, took…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Save More Photos on Your iPhone Using This Storage App

It’s not a great feeling when you frame a photo on your iPhone only to find out there’s not enough free storage space available to store it. IceCream is an iOS app that performs some under-the-hood trickery to give you more room for photos—thousands of them—without forcing you to delete any of your existing ones.…

Gadgets David Nield

Piers Morgan Doesn’t Really Seem to Understand How iPhones Work

There have been a ton of melodramatic statements made about Apple’s current disagreement with the FBI—many of them from Apple itself! But a tweetstorm from Piers Morgan this evening might take the cake. Morgan’s willfully ignorant and often inflammatory comments managed to engage the tech community and got some folks pretty riled up. Reading his…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Your Next Phone Might Have 256GB of Storage Thanks to Samsung’s New Chip

I love high capacity things. So when Samsung announced it’s producing 256 GB flash storage that can be used in mobile devices, I swooned. The memory is two times faster than the previous generation of Universal Flash Storage (UFS) memory, meaning that phones will not only have greater storage capacities, but also breeze reading and…

Tech News Michael Nunez

Apple Will Argue Its iPhone Unlocking Case Should Be Passed to Congress, Claims AP

The Associated Press is reporting that Apple will tell federal judges this week that it believes its fight with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone should be passed on to Congress. The news wire claims that it’s been privy to some of the arguments that Apple will make in court courtesy of Theodore J. Boutrous…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Reported to Argue Code Should Be Protected as Free Speech in FBI Fight

Apple is currently developing a legal response to the government’s request that it create software to help the DOJ unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting. It seems part of its argument will, apparently, include defending code as a form of free speech. Bloomberg reports that an unnamed Apple executive has told it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Fans Don’t Actually Care About the Whole FBI iPhone Thing

Apple is waging a vicious war in the court of public opinion against the FBI and its court order mandating Apple to hack an iPhone. It’s a big deal, but despite the hand-wringing rhetoric, Apple has failed to make the general public actually care. The top photo comes from a demonstration this afternoon in Washington…

Tech News Chris Mills

Bill Gates Sides With FBI Over iPhone Unlocking [Update: Bill Gates Feels ‘Disappointed’]

Bill Gates has come out in support of the FBI over its battle with Apple about unlocking an iPhone as part of the San Bernardino case. In an interview with the Financial Times, Gates argues that Apple’s co-operation would not set a meaningful precedent. The FBI, he reckons, is “not asking for some general thing,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Justice Department Forcing Apple to Unlock ‘About 12 Other iPhones’ Says WSJ

The unlocking of the San Bernardino iPhone may just be the tip of the iceberg. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department is currently trying to have Apple extract data from “about a dozen” iPhones around the country. According to “people familiar with the matter,” the authorities are looking to extract data from…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The San Bernardino Terrorist’s iCloud Password Was Reset By His Employer

Everybody is in a tizzy over whether Apple should comply with a court order to unlock the iPhone of one of the dead San Bernardino terrorists. But there’s one detail in this whole mess that’s completely bizarre. The terrorist’s employer, the San Bernardino Health Department, reset the guy’s iCloud password. Technically, the iPhone in question…

Tech News Matt Novak

Apple’s Getting More Time to Fight Against iPhone Unlocking Demand

Apple will have a little longer to argue against the court ruling that asks it to unlock an iPhone, according to Bloomberg. The company will now respond to the request on February 26th February rather than Tuesday 23rd, say sources familiar with the timings of the court procedures. Originally the company was given five days,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Judge Orders Apple to Help the FBI Hack San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone

The problem of law enforcement and encryption is mostly talked about in vague terms of “backdoors” and “a new Manhattan Project”, but here’s something concrete: a District Court Judge just ordered Apple to help the FBI access files on one of the iPhones of the San Bernardino shooters. The ruling was handed down by Sheri…

Tech News Chris Mills

What the Hell Is Going On With This 1970 iPhone Bug?

After a few days of silence and idiots playing with the Unix gods and bricking their phones, Apple has finally acknowledged the bug that bricks phones with their clocks set to January 1, 1970. Curiously the support document on Apple’s site doesn’t list the well-known January 1 date, but May 1970 instead. That makes things…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Why the 1970 Bug Bricks Your iPhone

Thanks to scum-of-the-internet 4chan, we’ve all been hearing lately about a particular iOS bug that will brick modern iPhones, if you set the date back to 1/1/1970. Why does that happen? YouTuber Tom Scott explains. Scott gives a quick lesson in Unix time to explain why he thinks the bricking happens: for your iPhone, time…

Tech News Chris Mills

Watch John Oliver Thoughtfully Explain Why Apple Is Right About Encryption

Apple’s Next Event Is March 21

Justice Department Wants to Overturn New York iPhone Unlocking Ruling

Hillary Clinton Has No Real Opinion on Apple’s FBI Battle

Every Apple Product That Is Probably in the Works

An Incomplete List of Things the Federal Government Should Stop Using Thanks to Apple

How to Use a Swinging iPhone to Create a Low-Budget Bullet-Time Effect

Save More Photos on Your iPhone Using This Storage App

Piers Morgan Doesn’t Really Seem to Understand How iPhones Work

Your Next Phone Might Have 256GB of Storage Thanks to Samsung’s New Chip

Apple Will Argue Its iPhone Unlocking Case Should Be Passed to Congress, Claims AP

Apple Reported to Argue Code Should Be Protected as Free Speech in FBI Fight

Apple Fans Don’t Actually Care About the Whole FBI iPhone Thing

Bill Gates Sides With FBI Over iPhone Unlocking [Update: Bill Gates Feels ‘Disappointed’]

Justice Department Forcing Apple to Unlock ‘About 12 Other iPhones’ Says WSJ

The San Bernardino Terrorist’s iCloud Password Was Reset By His Employer

Apple’s Getting More Time to Fight Against iPhone Unlocking Demand

Judge Orders Apple to Help the FBI Hack San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone

What the Hell Is Going On With This 1970 iPhone Bug?

Why the 1970 Bug Bricks Your iPhone

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