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Communists Oppose Naming a French Street for Steve Jobs, Suggest Ada Lovelace Instead
France has a surprisingly large number of streets named after Americans. There are streets named for Thomas Edison, George Gershwin, and Ben Franklin. But recent plans to name a street after Steve Jobs has encountered some resistance. Specifically, resistance from French Communists. Developers recently converted an old train station in the city into a tech … Continued
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Fake Apple Chargers Are Even More Dangerous Than You Think
We’ve been telling you for years that fake Apple chargers are bad news, but a new study shows they are even worse than we thought. The UK’s consumer protection group, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, recently purchased 400 counterfeit chargers online as part of an investigation into their safety. Of that 400, the CTSI says … Continued
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Foxconn Employee Steals 5,700 iPhones Before Getting Caught
We’ve all stolen things from work—pencils, pens, maybe a notebook—but this Foxconn employee went a little too far. According to AsiaOne, a former senior manager at the world’s largest electronics maker and assembler was charged with stealing and selling 5,700 iPhones for a value of about $1.56 million. The Taiwanese manager, who is identified by … Continued
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Apple’s Latest Desperate Attempt to Catch Google Maps Sounds Especially Ridiculous
Apple is going to try and close the gap between its mapping application, Apple Maps, and Google Maps by deploying a fleet of drones to scan streets, according to Bloomberg. Details are sparse, but what we do know sounds absurd. Per Bloomberg’s sources, Apple’s drones will be able to collect new mapping data faster than … Continued
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Apple Is Sorry About All That Calendar Spam
If you’re one of the many iCloud users that has been receiving spam calendar invitations, you’ll be relieved to know Apple has now worked up the courage to acknowledge the problem and is trying its best to fix it. Apple acknowledged the issue in a recent statement (via iMessage) to the news blog iMore: We … Continued
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Apple Kills Hill
You know what would be great right about now? A hill on which to throw myself and hysterically weep. Sadly, it won’t be Apple’s Hill, a giant mound of dirt at the company’s fancy new campus in Cupertino. But all good things must come to an end, and as some new drone footage shows, the … Continued
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What Donald Trump Told Tim Cook on the Phone
When he sat down with some of the editors of The New York Times on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump admitted that Apple CEO Tim Cook had called him. Cook and Trump haven’t always been on the best of terms—back in February, Trump (then an iPhone user), called for a boycott of Apple products during the … Continued
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Apple Is Offering Replacements for iPhone 6s Models That Randomly Shut Down
If you have an iPhone 6S that randomly shuts down, you’re not the only one. Apple is aware of a problem that it says affects a small number of phones, and is offering customers replacement batteries for those units. Last week, a consumer protection group in China asked Apple to investigate issues associated with iPhone … Continued
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Jony Ive Designed a Christmas Tree and It Sucks
This weekend, fancy hotel Claridges revealed the Christmas tree that will grace its famed lobby this year. Designed by a different fancy person each year, 2016’s tree was was thought up by Apple impresario Jony Ive and industrial designer Marc Newson. Ah, so this is what it felt like when humans discovered fire. In true … Continued
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RIP Apple Wireless Routers: We Hardly Knew Thee
According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple is exiting the router business. Bloomberg report that, over the last year, Apple has started to shutter the division, which made the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule products, instead opting to put engineers on other projects, including the Apple TV. In some ways, this shouldn’t be … Continued
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You Can Play Doom on Apple’s Touch Bar But It’s Not Pretty
When it first launched, Doom was the pinnacle of first-person shooters. Now the whole thing runs on Apple’s high-tech function key replacement. (Macbook Pro, baby!) The Touch Bar is just the most recent (and ridiculous) piece of hardware to run the classic game. Graphing calculators? Those run Doom. Inkjet printers? Yup— Doom. There’s even an … Continued
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Verizon’s iPhone 7 Data Speeds Are Slower Than They Should Be: Report
The hardware inside of the Verizon iPhone 7 is supposed to sport download speeds that are far better than those on an AT&T iPhone 7. But according to a new report, the Verizon iPhones aren’t as fast as they should be. Twin Prime Inc. and Cellular Insights spoke to Bloomberg about the newly discovered discrepancy … Continued
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This Weird Trick Apparently Lets You Bypass Any iPhone’s Lock Screen
A series of YouTube videos are pointing out a flaw that could allow users to access photos on an iPhone without entering in a passcode. This requires physical access to the device, and Siri on the lock screen needs to be enabled. The process is also fairly convoluted. Although one Gizmodo staffer was able to … Continued
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Apple Will Fix ‘Touch Disease’ on Your iPhone for Just $150
Apple now has a repair program in place to address the so-called “Touch Disease” problem that the iPhone repair community first raised in August. Over time, some iPhone 6 Plus users reported that the touchscreen on the phones became unresponsive, with a flickering gray bar eventually showing up at the top of the screen. Dubbed … Continued
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My New $2,500 MacBook Pro Was DOA
Damn this new MacBook Pro. As of this very moment I’ve had the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for just a few hours. It’s small, sturdy, and typing my password in was pleasant enough. That Touch Bar looks really neat too, and when I set up Touch ID to login from the Touch … Continued
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Firefox’s Super-Private Browser Is Obvious, and That’s Why I Like It
Without the aid of specialized tools, everything you do online (and plenty of things you don’t realized you’re doing) is being tracked. Desktop browsers have the benefit of extensions and add-ons that block pages from tracking you, but mobile browsers tend to be a little less advanced. That’s what makes Focus, Firefox’s privacy-forward iOS browser, … Continued
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We May Not Be Getting All the OLED iPhones We’re Expecting Next Year
Apple’s rumored plans for an OLED iPhone in 2017 have reportedly hit some snags, according to report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jungah Lee. Apparently, the four main OLED screen suppliers won’t have the production capacity to make displays for all three rumored 2017 iPhone models. Bloomberg’s report corroborates an earlier report from KGI Securities, … Continued
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Jim Parsons to Play BuzzFeed Editor in Movie Nobody Asked For
Sometimes a story is so powerful, it has the ability to cross cultures and even continents. If that story is truly remarkable, however, it can even become a movie starring the guy from The Big Bang Theory that no reasonable person would ever want to see. In a series of blog posts last year, BuzzFeed … Continued
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Peach Emoji Restored to Natural Beauty After Outcry from Ass Activists
Apple considered killing the peach-butt, but the ass lobby made its demands loud and clear. In the first developer beta test for iOS 10.2, Apple redesigned all its food emojis, most notably the peach, which as we all know, is also an ass. As you can see below, the peach transformed into a significantly less … Continued
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This Is the Dumbest MacBook Pro Complaint
The new MacBook Pro is far from perfect. It’s expensive, the Touch Bar feels like a gimmick, it’s not upgradable, and the USB-C ports means you’ll be stuck using dongles, at least in the short-term. These are all valid reasons for Mac fans to be unhappy with the new MacBook Pro. But the silliest reason … Continued