Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Check-In On Construction Of Apple's 'Spaceship Doughnut' Campus Back in September, we marveled at (or criticized, depending on what side of the bed we got up on) drone footage of Apple's under-construction campus in Cupertino. Four months later, we've got an
Arts & Entertainment Extras With '80s Hair Wanted For Latest Steve Jobs Biopic Do you look like you just stepped out of a DeLorean time machine from the 1980s? Do you sport big, teased or feathered hair? Do you have availability for 12 to 14 hours
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Short On Toys The SFPD toy drive came up short, and here's why. [Examiner] Payne Mansion opens as hotel and events space, but it's still for sale. [Business Times] The SOMA Leadership council opposes the Commonwealth
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Apple Commercial Highlights Christmas Ruined By DOS Prompts Most of you whippersnappers will be confused by this ancient commercial from Apple, in which a family's Christmas Eve is ruined by the DOS prompts required by their brand new "Multimedia Computer." But
SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesting In the Rain Despite pouring rain last night, 150 protesters still marched from Berkeley to Oakland, again, and a smaller group blocked traffic on Market Street in SF. [SF Weekly, Chron] Jesse Jackson and some 100
SF News Steve Jobs' Emails At Center Of Oakland Class Action Suit Steve Jobs is alive and, well, very much himself in emails and a videotaped deposition to be presented in an Oakland courtroom tomorrow. As one story goes, when Google's Eric Schmidt informed Jobs
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Real Apple Store The 1,000-year-old Borough Market in London (yes, it is one thousand years old) just celebrated its birthday, which coincided with Apple Day, but opening a spoof on the Apple Store dubbed The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Apple Threatens Death To Those Who Dare Call It The 'iWatch' Of course, previous to its big unveiling on September 9, you assumed that Apple's new wearable would be called the iWatch. We certainly did, writing that day that the device "maybe isn't called
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Officially Comes Out In Essay: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" Everyone knows that Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay, but he hasn't come out... until now. Writing in a personal essay for Bloomberg Businessweek, he definitively said, "While I have never denied my
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News Yawn: Apple Unveils Thinner iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3 In the good-news column for anyone in the market for a new iPad this holiday season: They have new faster processors, touch ID, and better cameras. The iPad Air 2 can now take
SF News The Tech Company Egg Freezing Debate: Great Perk, Or Terrible Message? Women nearing the decline of their best baby-making years have long-undertaken the practice of having their eggs frozen, a procedure that can cost of well over $10,000. Now companies like Facebook and
SF News Apple Accidentally Unveils New iPad Specs One Day Early As predicted last week, Apple's scheduled event tomorrow is all about new iPads, just in time for the holiday shopping season. And now, via some employee's screwup in the iTunes store iBooks section,
SF News New iPads Ahead? Apple Announces October 16 Event "It's been way too long" reads the invitation Apple sent to tech media today, presumably to unveil some sort of new iPad type thing. Perhaps that line was intended somewhat ironically, as media
SF News New iPhones Don't Bend So Easily At All, Says Consumer Reports; British Punks Show Otherwise Maybe #bendgate is over as quickly as it began, but in a boon for Apple and its loyalists, Consumer Reports has rushed out a highly scientific report that proves that you can't bend
Arts & Entertainment Video: Conan Mocks 'Flaccid' iPhones Does your new iPhone 6 Plus have trouble staying hard? You've likely heard the stories about #bendgate/#bendghazi. Well, Conan took a funny jab at the issue last night. Meanwhile, Apple has come
SF News Report: Apple Was Informed Of iCloud's Security Flaw Prior to Celebgate Apple is having a Benghazi moment. Months before perverts worldwide celebrated the leak of nude pics of numerous noted celebrities, Apple was told that such a thing could happen —by the same security
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ai Weiwei Not Way Awesome? The Chron's review of the Ai Weiwei installation on Alcatraz is not great! [Chron] Uber is putting the screws to new drivers, charging a 25-percent commission to all newbies who sign up as
SF News iPhone 6 Pluses Are Bending In People's Pockets Be honest. You were just waiting with bated breath to find out what the first public disaster with the iPhone 6 would be. Wait no longer! They bend. The smartphones, which are roughly
Arts & Entertainment People Are Already Dropping, Microwaving Their iPhones Allright, people. All those downtown iPhone campers we talked to last night are presumably home taking a much-needed nap. Klaus Bandisch and the rest of the "surprisingly chill" Chestnut Street Apple store crowd
SF News Size Matters: Campers Line Up For The iPhone 6 "What if it sucks?" I asked Tim Noguera, 26, of San Francisco. "That's impossible." Tim and his friend, Nicholas Bertelsen of Denmark, happily sat behind a rope outside Apple's flagship store in San
SF News Apple Recommends Pre-Ordering iPhone 6, Still Has A Few Models Left For In-Store Pickup; Also, The Reviews Are In We don't yet know how rabid the on-the-ground eagerness will be come Thursday night/Friday morning at the downtown S.F. Apple Store (or at Apple Stores around the Bay Area). But Apple
Arts & Entertainment On This Day In 1985, Apple Forced Steve Jobs Out. On This Day In 1997, He Came Back. If we were believers in numerology,* we might ascribe some significance to today's reports that sales of the iPhone 6 appear to have exceeded Apple's wildest expectations. September 16 isn't just a day
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
Arts & Entertainment If You Have iTunes, You Have U2's New Album Whether You Want It Or Not [Updated] At Apple's big event this week where it announced the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, the company also launched something else — U2's latest album Songs of Innocence. After Bono and the band closed
