SF News Video: Robbers Strike Busy Marina District Apple Store — Twice A group of robbers struck the same Marina District Apple store on two separate occasions in the final days of November, stealing what likely amounts to thousands of dollars worth of electronics. The
SF News Link Circulating Online Freezes Any iOS Device When Opened A seemingly harmless video circulating online could mean a big headache for any Apple customer who mistakenly tries to play it, as the roughly five-second clip results in the eventual slowing down and
SF News Don't Try This: Drilling Your Own Headphone Jack Into The iPhone 7 So we were all pretty bummed out when we learned, as promised, that the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus would be without a headphone jack. Well, in a surprise to no
SF News Waterproof iPhone 7 Unveiled As Apple Has A Complete Twitter Meltdown As we speak the long-scheduled unveiling of the next in a growing line of skinnier and sleeker iPhones is happening at an event in San Francisco. The tightly choreographed presentation was meant to
SF News September 16 Release Date Rumored For iPhone 7 Because we all love our Apple rumors so much, here's another one for you: The latest addition to the tech giant's line of iPhones, the iPhone 7, is slated for a September 16
Arts & Entertainment The iPhone 7 Will Be Slightly Thinner, Lose Headphone Jack, Maintain Basic Design Getting excited to replace your scuffed up, increasingly battery-challenged iPhone 5 or 6 this fall? Well don't get too excited for the iPhone 7 to be a radical departure, because the Wall Street
Arts & Entertainment New Emoji Coming Soon Include Eyeroll Face, Unicorn Face, And Taco 41 new emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium as part of the latest release of the universal picture-based texting array, Unicode 8.0. iPhone users may have to wait until September
SF News Here's What A Shipment of 195,000 New iPhones Looks Like Arriving From China As you've probably heard, pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have been huge basically double what they were for the iPhone 5 just in the first 24 hours. So, as Apple
SF News Crash-And-Grab Thief Turns Berkeley Apple Store Into A Drive-Thru #apple customers being turned away on 4th st in #Berkeley after Pontiac slams into store-- BPD says items stolen pic.twitter.com/xnBQlqze2n— Mike Mibach KTVU (@MibachKTVU) May 9, 2014 Friday morning around
Arts & Entertainment A Few Words About Jonathan Franzen, iPhone Gazing, The Death Of Books, And Hating On Technology The arguably great, inarguably astute Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay this past week that has taken even the literarily inclined a few days to get around to, as most good essays should. It's
SF News Apple Unveils Powerful iOS 7; Pretty, Plastic New iPhones Today's mildly anticipated iPhone and iOS7 announcement from Apple met expectations and rumors swirling around the Internet over the past few months. CEO Tim Cook and his gang revealed the iOS 7, iPhone
SF News Apple To Make New iPhone Announcement Today [Updated] Today Apple will unleash new iPhones, a new version of iOS, and possibly more at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. at 10 a.m. PT. What can you expect? Probably not a
SF News Apple, Top Prosecutors Finally Make An Effort To Curb Smartphone Theft While you were oohing and ahhing (or hemming and hawing) over the slick visual redesign coming in Apple's next iOS software update, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York State Attorney
SF News John McCain Thinks Apple CEO Tim Cook Is A Genius Bar Employee During yesterday's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing with Apple -- accused of avoiding taxes upwards of $74 billion -- Senator John McCain used the Q&A session with CEO Tim Cook
SF News iPhone iMessages Impervious to Government Wiretaps? [Updated] Well, isn't this intriguing. In a boon for privacy and civil rights advocates, the federal government recently discovered that they can't actually collect text messages from people they're wiretapping if they own an
SF News Thieves Stealing iPhones, iPads Off Of Downtown Office Desks During Daylight Hours Two's a trend, and the Examiner reports on two recent incidents of brazen office thievery by crooks wandering in off the street during work hours. To be clear, your phones are no longer
SF News Personal Trainer Attacked, Robbed Of iPhone In The Castro Here's another incident in a wave of iPhone snatchings across the city, but this one was in the otherwise less often crime-ridden Castro. Personal trainer Dalton Huckaby was both mugged and assaulted on
SF News Meanwhile, On Mayor Jean Quan's iPhone... She has a pink plastic iPhone case! How about that. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan snaps a shot a Gold Rush-era jewelry box after a news conference announcing its recovery at the Oakland Museum
SF News New App Will Help You Deal With STD Paranoia A new app has just come out for the iPhone that gets you a quick answer from a panel of dermatologists as to whether that spot on your penis is herpes. And, you
SF News IPad Thievery Leads to Car Chase, Big Crash In Hayes Valley Three suspects are in custody and one person was seriously injured after a collision in Hayes Valley that followed a high-speed chase stemming from a mugging in Pacific Heights. The three men, suspects
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay iPhone Ad for the Castro This guy made a little spoof of the iPhone 4S/Siri ads, featuring stuff in the Castro. And it's mildly amusing. In case you didn't know, Hand Job is actually a nail salon
SF News Apple Surpasses Microsoft to Become Most Valuable Company in U.S. History It's been a long time coming, but Apple has officially become the most valuable company in U.S. history, reaching a record market capitalization today of $623 billion. That number surpasses the high
SF News SFPD Tracks Down iPhone Thief Using Federal DNA Database Some high-tech police work straight out of a primetime cop drama helped bring down a thief who stole a Muni rider's iPhone over six months ago. According to SFPD's Bayview Station newsletter today,
SF News Cops Follow Stolen iPhone To Cache Of Illegal Weapons, Oakland Pot Operation While it's not quite as big as the iPad that led to the meth bust of the century down in San Jose, cops serving a search warrant for a stolen iPhone yesterday entered
SF News Apple Designs Thing To (Hopefully) Make People Less Annoying At today's World Wide Developer's Conference, Tim Cook and company did as guru Steve always taught and unveiled some big things Apple has been working on to make all of our lives a