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Well This Makes the Apple Watch More Appealing to Steal

It took Apple seven years to learn one hard lesson: The right security features can deter thieves from stealing your devices. Unfortunately, the lesson hasn’t transferred to Apple’s new wearable. The iPhone’s Activation Lock requires a passcode to erase, reactivate, or use a smartphone when the Find My iPhone feature is turned on. Great idea!…

Behold Mophie’s Mil-Spec Waterproof Battery Case For the iPhone

Mophie has long made some of the best backup batteries and battery cases you can get. The company’s upgrading its line of Juice Pack cases for the iPhone with a new model that’s waterproof. Not even a toilet can conquer your iPhone now. The new Juice Pack H2PRO provides 2750mAh of backup power for your…

How The New Cold War Is Improving Your Navigation

Ever contemplated going to war with America, but been thwarted when the Great Satan switched off your access to its navigation satellites? That’s potentially a real problem for China and Russia, but the real victor in this navigational arms race might be you; it’s improving the quality of location data on your phone and in…

Watch All the Ways Apple’s Tried to Teach Us How to Use Its Products

The Apple Watch starts hitting wrists today with one of the most incredibly enormous user guides ever produced for an Apple product: 23 topics, almost 100 pages, not even including the 10 videos to teach people how to use this thing. Apple started creating “guided tours” for its new products back in 1984—here are some…

PopSlate Lightning Review: This iPhone Case Has An E-Ink Screen in Back

What does the back of your phone look like? Is it covered by a case? Either way, I’m willing to bet it looks the same every day. What if you could personalize it with the push of a button, wirelessly beaming your favorite photos to an e-ink screen that lives in a special iPhone 6…

Homescreen Voyeurs Rejoice, This App Lets You Gawk at Other iPhones

Admit it, whenever you see someone using their iPhone you’re always trying to sneak a peek of what apps they’ve deemed important enough to put on their homescreen, and what kind of wallpaper they’re using. Now thanks to an iOS app called #Homescreen that allows users the world over to share and stare at screenshots…

Apple’s New Emoji Open Up a Whole New Realm of Painful Awkwardness

Those who have updated their iPhones to iOS 8.3 have already seen the future: Among the many updates out today is a redesigned emoji keyboard with new and improved (and “diverse”) emoji. Basically, the plot of every Wes Anderson movie just got way easier to recap. The Apple iOS 8.3 update features redesigned emoji (the…

The Most Obscenely Expensive Apps for iOS

If you thought $10 was highway robbery when it comes to apps, this colorful infographic should help put things in perspective. It’s arguable that a few of the apps listed here are worth their eye-popping price tag—Harrison’s Principles, for instance, is basically a medical textbook for doctors, while IDIA is the veterinarian’s counterpart. But others,…

This Cheap Hack Shows No iPhone PIN Is Really Safe

I’ve always thought of an iPhone passcode as being fairly secure — it’s a 4-digit number, whith a lockout that prevents just mashing buttons until you find the right answer. But apparently, there’s a cheap box that can get hack your security, no matter what. According to MDSec, there’s a $300 device called an IP…

Topps’ New App Lets You Trade Star Wars Cards With Anyone On Earth

Books, magazines, comics, even photographs have already all made the move to digital. And finally, 65 years after coming up with a clever way to boost gum sales, Topps is bringing its iconic trading cards into the digital world with a new Star Wars app that lets collectors trade cards with anyone else on earth…

This Tiny Multi-Function Cube Can Save a Dying Smartphone

There is no shortage of tiny USB charging and sync cables available for your smartphone, but the makers of the aptly-named WonderCube have managed to squeeze a surprising amount of functionality into a tiny one-inch cube you’ll never want to leave home without. The WonderCube is smaller than most keychains, but does far more than…

Google’s Great New Calendar App Just Came to iOS

The fantastic Google Calendar revamp that Android users have been enjoying for a while now has finally hit iOS. If you’ve got an iPhone/iPad and use Google Calendar at all (or even if you just have a Gmail account), it’s definitely worth checking out—if not for the neat auto-fill-in feature alone. You can read more…

All the Very Personal Data Apple’s ResearchKit Will Collect About You

Apple just announced the details of the new open source software framework that will make it easier for medical researchers to access data about millions of potential subjects. ResearchKit sounds amazing—and potentially riddled with security concerns. Will Apple make it easier for adversaries to access your health data, too? It’s hard to tell. On the…

iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app. Start your iPhones.

Could the Next iPhone Be Completely Waterproof?

“Premium smartphones” often means powerful processors and stunning displays wrapped in an all-metal body, but what is consistently left off that feature list, unless your Sony and (formerly) Samsung, is waterproofing. Now, Apple is looking into how its next smartphone could completely repel water without changing design at all. Those rumors stem from a new…

Ericsson Is Suing to Block Sales of iPhones in the U.S.

Ericsson has announced that it’s filing seven new lawsuits in a U.S. court against Apple for infringing its patents—and it’s asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block iPhones from sale, too. All told, Ericsson claims that Apple infringes a total of 41 of its patents. They describe some of the fundamental ways mobile devices…

This Is Allegedly How People Hack App Store Rankings in China

It’s become hard to manipulate App Store rankings, with Apple increasingly stamping out contributions made by bots. But what if you have a huge bank of iPhones to make (seemingly) legitimate contributions? This image is circulating Chinese social media site Weibo, captioned to explain that it shows a “hardworking App Store ranking manipulation employee.” Flanked…

Apple JUST Got Around to Banning ‘Bonded Servitude’ In Its Factories 

Apple has banned ‘bonded servitude,’ which means it won’t let its supplier factories make their new hires work for free to pay for the costs of hiring them. Good!!! And also: Why the hell is this just happening now? When Apple gears up to make a new product, its supplier factories go on hiring sprees.…

All The Fun Of Disposable Cameras, Without A Trip To the Drugstore

Back before the days of selfie-sticks, or selfies or even the concept of front-facing cameras, humanity had plastic disposable cameras. You’d shoot your 20 photos, take it to the drugstore, rewind the film — yes, film — and walk out with 20 blurry holiday snaps of your own. WhiteAlbum is an app that’s trying to…

The Nunchuck iPhone Case You Never Knew You Needed Until Just Now

The smartphone is the ultimate tool for fiddling around when you should be doing anything but. And when you get tired of all your apps, games, and social networks, this wonderful sliding, hinged iPhone case turns your device into a makeshift set of nunchucks—or nunchaku. The Trick Cover case certainly adds a bit of extra…