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A Hidden Trick in the iOS 11 Beta Lets You Disable Touch ID to Keep Cops Out
In a world where the authorities may be just as likely to try to hack into your phone as a random crook, it’s nice to see that Apple has added a hidden trick that could help keep cops out. A new feature found in the current iOS 11 beta allows users to press the sleep … Continued
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Maybe Apple’s One Billion Dollar Original Content Push Will Actually Be Good
So far, Apple’s original video content has been the least Apple-style product that Apple has produced in modern times. The few shows that the company has produced have committed a sin that’s even worse than being bad—they’re lame. Well, the company announced today that it’s digging into its bottomless coffers and actually making a major … Continued
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Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone X Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know [Updated]
With a new iPhones due out later this fall, the Apple rumor mill is hitting peak froth. Not only does 2017 mark the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, but after the iPhone 7 didn’t deliver as much of an improvement over the iPhone 6s as people expected, there’s a lot riding on Apple’s upcoming crop … Continued
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Looks Like Apple Leaked Details of the New iPhone in the HomePod Firmware [Updated]
If you had any doubts about Apple releasing a bezel-free iPhone in September, you can probably throw those out the window. The company just pushed out a version of the HomePod firmware, and not only does the code tell us more about how Apple’s smart speaker will work, it also offers a few clues about … Continued
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Yeah, Maybe Don’t Use This App That Supposedly Identifies Poison Mushrooms
While Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are busy debating whether a malevolent, future AI could dispatch machine-gun toting drones to kill us all, a current-day “revolutionary AI” could get you killed right now. Truffle, previously Mushroom, is an app that claim it can “identify any mushroom instantly with just a pic.” Mushrooms are famously hard … Continued
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Apple Removes All VPN Apps From Its Chinese App Store
Apple Inc. appears to have complied with the wishes of Chinese censors and removed all major VPN apps from the China-based branch of its App Store, a move which will make it harder for consumers to dodge the country’s pervasive restrictions on internet freedom. As TechCrunch noted, it’s still possible for users to create an … Continued
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Apple Just Killed the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle
Two more members of the Apple family just got put in the ground. On Thursday, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that it has “officially discontinued” the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano. As first noticed by MacRumors, Apple pulled both MP3 players from its website as available products today, something the company has … Continued
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Is This Foxconn Factory the ‘Big, Big, Big’ Apple Plants Donald Trump Bragged About?
On Wednesday, top Republican leadership including President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan all appeared at the White House alongside Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou to announce a new LCD production line in Wisconsin. The $10 billion plant, which they said would create 3,000 jobs … Continued
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Apple Declines to Comment on Donald Trump’s Claim Tim Cook ‘Promised Me 3 Big Plants—Big, Big, Big’
President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Apple CEO Tim Cook had called him up and “promised me three big plants—big, big, big.” “I said you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I won’t consider my administration an economic success,” Trump added. “He called me, and … Continued
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Adobe Is Finally Killing Flash (For Real, This Time)
Here it is, hiding halfway down the company’s latest press release, like a guillotine in a crowded town square: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.” Boom. That’s the sound of the blade dropping, and Flash, finally, thankfully, mercifully dying. Because Adobe just killed it. It’s actually slightly more complicated than that. Adobe is working with … Continued
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iPhone 4S Owner Sues Apple After ‘Defective’ Battery Allegedly Starts House Fire
A woman from Wisconsin and insurance company State Farm are suing Apple for $75,000, claiming the tech giant sold her a “defective” iPhone 4S that caused a fire in her home—not unlike Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7. Xai Thao and State Farm claim “the design, manufacture, and sale of the iPhone created a dangerous, unsafe, and … Continued
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Apple’s Patented iPhone Panic Button Might Not Make You Much Safer
Could future iPhones come with a built-in panic button to discreetly summon the cops? It’s certainly a possibility, judging by Apple’s recent patent filings. According to a patent granted to Apple on Tuesday for “Biometric Initiated Communication,” the panic button could operate from a number of inputs including “a particular finger or finger sequence,” “a … Continued
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An Amazon Bot Is Making the Greatest Smartphone Cases
In what’s either the best art project, the best business move, or both, someone has made what I presume is a bot that’s churning out thousands of unique iPhone cases for sale on Amazon. Pretty much all of them are masterpieces. Bots mocking up one-off products in the hope that just the right person comes … Continued
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iOS 11 Has a Secret Feature That Lets You Stomp Around Cities Like Godzilla
With the introduction of iOS 11 and a development tool called ARKit, Apple is betting that augmented reality could be the next revolutionary feature for smartphones. At the very least, it’s facilitated a secret feature that lets iPhone users pretend they’re giant monsters stomping through a tiny city. https://gizmodo.com/ios-11-all-the-cool-new-features-coming-to-your-iphone-1795826183 The feature was discovered by developer … Continued
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Report: Apple Hopes to Replace Fingerprints With a 3D Face Scanner on iPhone 8
Yesterday, a leak from one of the most reliable Apple rumor sleuths claimed that the iPhone 8 won’t feature a fingerprint scanner integrated into the display. That feature has been expected for some time. But if a new report is correct, it seems that fingerprints are going to be replaced with 3D facial recognition. http://gizmodo.com/its-alarmingly-easy-to-hack-the-galaxy-s8s-iris-scanner-1795466164 … Continued
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Guy Who Worked on the iPhone Shows Off Some Clunky Prototypes
In case you didn’t see one of the endless internet posts on the subject—it’s the 10th anniversary of the iPhone’s release. Hurray! Amongst the painful wankery about how the iPhone “changed everything” emerged one actually interesting bit: A look at some clumsy early prototypes of the combination iPod, phone, and internet communicator. Ken Kocienda, the … Continued
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The iPhone Forever Changed How We Read Takes on the Internet
Before the iPhone was released, there were very few iPhone takes on the internet. 10 years ago, that changed. Now there are lots of takes. Since Gizmodo couldn’t possibly write all the iPhone 10th anniversary think pieces we came up with, here are just a few of our favorites: Fuck the iPhone, the Palm Pilot … Continued
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North Korea’s New Smartphone Looks an Awful Lot Like an iPhone
Behold: the Jindallae 3. Designed and manufactured locally by North Korea’s Mangyongdae Information Technology Corporation, the new smartphone is “versatile and multifunctional” and comes in white or black, according to state-sponsored news agency DPRK Today. It also looks just like an iPhone. With a name that roughly translates to “azalea,” the Jindallae 3 does indeed … Continued
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Apple Unveils World’s Least Portable Laptop
You can say a lot about Apple—it brought smartphones and personal computers to the mass market, it changed the technology industry forever, it was controlled by a megalomaniacal asshole for much of its existence—but you’d have a hard time getting even the staunchest critic of the company to argue its products weren’t groundbreakingly pretty. Alas, … Continued
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Five Things You Might Not Know From ‘The Secret History of the iPhone’
In his new book The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, Brian Merchant gives us a rare look inside Apple, chronicling the development of the iPhone with details about everything from the selection of raw materials to the product’s famous launch event. In the past, we’ve heard a few scraps of information from … Continued
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