science »

Apple Keeps Your Siri Data for Two Years – Gizmodo

Apple Keeps Your Siri Data for Two Years – Gizmodo

Gizmodo April 19, 2013 0

You thought that time you asked Siri about the weird mole on your toe was just between the two of you?

Read More »
Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple

Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple

Gizmodo April 15, 2013 0

If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your pay check, brace yourself.

Read More »
How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

Gizmodo April 15, 2013 0

A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they're broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made

Read More »
Report: Apple Is Close to Signing Two Major Music Labels for Its Upcoming …

Report: Apple Is Close to Signing Two Major Music Labels for Its Upcoming …

Gizmodo April 5, 2013 0

CNET is reporting that Apple is very close to signing deals with both Warner Music and Universal Music Group for its upcoming music streaming service.

Read More »
Samsung Is Building 1400 Retail Stores Inside Best Buys

Samsung Is Building 1400 Retail Stores Inside Best Buys

Gizmodo April 4, 2013 0

In a bid to compete more directly with Apple, Samsung has announced that in the coming months it will open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within Best Buy stores around the US. Following an

Read More »

Report: Apple’s Going to Start Making the iPhone 5S This Spring

Gizmodo April 2, 2013 0

According to the Wall Street Journal , Apple is already getting started on building "a refreshed iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one" this quarter, and it might be out

Read More »

The Next iOS Needs to Look Like This

Gizmodo March 25, 2013 0

It's not a good sign when the best iOS features are imaginary ones designed by people who aren't getting paid to do it instead of, you know, Apple.

Read More »

Apple Just Fixed a Huge Security Hole with Two-Step Verification

Gizmodo March 21, 2013 0

Apple just added two-factor authentication for iCloud and all your Apple accounts. It's a huge deal for security, and are a welcome boon to a security process that had proven full of holes

Read More »
You Can Now Buy a Wall-Mountable Version of the New iMac

You Can Now Buy a Wall-Mountable Version of the New iMac

Gizmodo March 14, 2013 0

At launch, Apple's new iMac was incompatible with VESA's well-known and much-loved wall mounting systems.

Read More »

What Every Fanboy Argument About Google Glass and the Apple iWatch Will Be …

Gizmodo March 9, 2013 0

Even though we're going to be whoa'd and inspired by the future that Google Glass and the Apple iWatch will bring, let's not kid ourselves. The most realistic future is going to be the

Read More »

Apple’s Mysterious Ebay Storefront Sells Macs For Less Than the Apple Refurb …

Gizmodo March 8, 2013 0

Since last October, there's been a store on Ebay that goes by the name Refurbished_Outlet , and it only sells Apple products

Read More »

The New Roku 3: Super Fast Spanking New Interface

Gizmodo March 6, 2013 0

The best little streaming black box just got a spanking new model: the Roku 3.

Read More »
The iPhone Was Almost Called Telepod, Mobi or Tripod

The iPhone Was Almost Called Telepod, Mobi or Tripod

Gizmodo March 5, 2013 0

During a talk at the University of Arizona's Department of Marketing, Apple's former head of advertising, Ken Segall, let slip about some of the alternative names seriously considered at Cupertino before the launch

Read More »
Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Hides a Tiny Computer

Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Hides a Tiny Computer

Gizmodo March 2, 2013 0

Apple's Lightning Digital AV Adapter is 50 bucks.

Read More »
Judge Cuts $450 Million Off the $1 Billion Samsung Owes Apple

Judge Cuts $450 Million Off the $1 Billion Samsung Owes Apple

Gizmodo March 2, 2013 0

Judge Lucy Koh has given Samsung a huge discount on the damages it owes Apple. Originally billed to pay Apple over $1 billion, Judge Koh has cut $450,514,650 from Samsung's tab. The new total

Read More »

Apple Is Deleting iCloud Emails That Have the Phrase ‘Barely Legal Teen’ in Them

Gizmodo March 1, 2013 0

Something really weird is happening to iCloud emails.

Read More »
Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For

Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For

Gizmodo February 28, 2013 0

Apple's new iPad commercial that aired during the Oscars would have you believe that there's a lot of film-making going on with that device, and maybe there is. But there's a lot more

Read More »

iCloud Had a Real Bed-Shitting This Morning

Gizmodo February 28, 2013 0

Apple's iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn't been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again

Read More »

The Best Alternatives for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App

Gizmodo February 22, 2013 0

The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented

Read More »
Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division

Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division

Gizmodo February 22, 2013 0

It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it's gotten really bad in New York City. It's so bad that, according to the New York Post

Read More »

This Is Where Apple Sources All Its Components (Spoiler: It Ain’t Just China!)

Gizmodo February 18, 2013 0

This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple's production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it's interesting to see that the rest

Read More »

There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Apple Product

Gizmodo February 15, 2013 0

By now, the year-old claim that Apple makes people work on fake products is well-known. How scandalous

Read More »

How Stupid Are You Willing to Look for Apple’s Amazing Magical iWatch?

Gizmodo February 13, 2013 0

There's no such thing as the Apple iWatch, and maybe there never will be. But if Cupertino does start selling futurustic Jetsons wrist wear, you need to prepare for one thing: looking like

Read More »

The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper

Gizmodo February 13, 2013 0

Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700.

Read More »
Good 69 Joke, iTunes

Good 69 Joke, iTunes

Gizmodo February 5, 2013 0

Apple is selling special 69 cent songs for Valentine's Day.

Read More »
Apple Audit Reveals 106 Cases of Underage Labor in China

Apple Audit Reveals 106 Cases of Underage Labor in China

Gizmodo January 25, 2013 0

Apple has released its seventh annual supplier audit and it reveals that one of its suppliers—Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics—was found to violate its underage labor policy 74 times. Unsurprisingly, Apple was clear

Read More »
First Look at jOBS, the Steve Jobs Movie Starring Ashton Kutcher: This Is …

First Look at jOBS, the Steve Jobs Movie Starring Ashton Kutcher: This Is …

Gizmodo January 24, 2013 0

I don't know if jOBS—the biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher —will be any good, but this clip by Inside Movies actually looks pretty decent! We might have to eat our words

Read More »

The Amazing Story of How a Savvy Entrepreneur Sold Two Companies You’ve …

Gizmodo January 18, 2013 0

In December of 2009 Apple bought a small startup led by Bill Nguyen named Lala. The company was named after the first words of Nguyen's adopted son. It was also a word play

Read More »
Reuters: Sharp Cuts Screen Production as iPad Demand Drops

Reuters: Sharp Cuts Screen Production as iPad Demand Drops

Gizmodo January 18, 2013 0

Reuters is reporting that Sharp has "nearly halted" production of its 9.7-inch iPad screens, as demand for Apple's large tablet drops. According to "sources familiar with the matter" , screen production at Sharp's

Read More »
Yes, Apple Is Cutting Down iPhone 5 Orders, and It Isn’t Giving Any Explanation

Yes, Apple Is Cutting Down iPhone 5 Orders, and It Isn’t Giving Any Explanation

Gizmodo January 15, 2013 0

The New York Times confirmed today that Apple is drastically cutting iPhone 5 orders , just as the Wall Street Journal and Nikkei of Japan reported yesterday . Apple hasn't answered the reports,

Read More »