SF News Some New iPhone 7 Pluses Said To Make 'Hissing' Sound The new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have been out for just three days now, and already some early adopters have begun to report that all is not right with their shiny
SF News Three News Organizations File Suit Against Feds To Find Out How They Hacked San Bernardino Attacker's iPhone Three news organizations the Associated Press, Gannett, and Vice Media together filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday against the FBI seeking to have access to the agency's records pertaining to its contract
SF News Sorry, Line-Waiters: iPhone 7 Plus Already Sold Out Quickly following last week's announcement of new enhancements to the iPhone 7 Plus in particular the camera pre-sales were so strong that all of the plus-sized phones have sold out ahead of their
SF News Day Around The Bay: Leaked Apple Emails Detail Allegations Of Company-Wide Sexism Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The sixth suspect in the Golden Gate Park slaying
Arts & Entertainment The iPhone 7 And 7 Plus Reviews Are In, And They're Mostly Good With the embargo lifted this morning, all the tech writers who got first crack at playing around with the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models announced last week have let loose
SF News Apple PR Bungles Response To Diversity Criticism Apple, like much of the tech industry, has been criticized for a perceived lack of diversity in its leadership ranks. The recent unveiling of the company's new iPhone provided a very prominent opportunity
Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Parody Video Mocks Apple For Making The Phone Worse College Humor brings us this delightful parody of the latest Apple launch video in which Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is recast as a kind of psychotic HAL (from 2001), and Tim Cook
Arts & Entertainment Apple's 'This Is 7' Ad Campaign Translates As 'This Is Penis' In Cantonese, Causing Much Laughter In China After this week's unveiling of the new water-resistant, headphone jack-free iPhone 7, Apple kicked off an ad campaign with the phrase "This is 7," apparently not knowing that directly translating that to Cantonese
SF News Apple Employee Sues Westfield Valley Fair Mall After Security Guard Pulls Gun An Apple employee is suing a mall and two of its security guards after a frightening incident caught on film. CBS 5 reports that the man was exiting the Westfield Valley Fair Mall
Arts & Entertainment Brace: Pokemon Go Is Coming To The Apple Watch The Apple launch event today didn't end with Sia and the news about the iPhone 7. John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go game developer Niantic, took the stage to tell everyone how the
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 It's Official: European Union Says Apple Owes Them $14.5B In Back Taxes European Union regulators announced today that following a two-year investigation into Ireland's treatment of two corporate entities operated by Apple in Cork, they've concluded that Ireland illegally offered tax breaks to Apple dating
SF News Apple Announces September 7 Event For iPhone 7 Release Just As Class Action Is Filed Over iPhone 6 'Touch Disease' The presumed release event for the iPhone 7 is now officially on the books for September 7, right after Labor Day, as is customary for Apple's annual release schedule. As Recode reports, in
SF News Many iPhone 6 Owners Complaining Of 'Touch Disease' Rendering Touchscreens Unusable A flaw in the interior workings of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is creating an epidemic of "Touch Disease" in which the phones stop responding to any touch pressure at all, rendering
Arts & Entertainment Upset That Siri Was Mispronouncing Her Name, Barbra Streisand Got Tim Cook To Change It Barbra Streisand, currently on tour despite many earlier threats/promises that she was retiring, went on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on Saturday to discuss her new album of duets called Encore:
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF News Overnight Burglary Of Apple Headquarters Leads To Door-To-Door Manhunt In South Bay A manhunt is ongoing Wednesday morning after three men suspected of burglarizing Apple's Cupertino headquarters took police on a chase all the way to San Jose. ABC 7 reports that someone with the
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Guy Gets Leaked iPhone 7 Mockup, Confirms No Headphone Jack Yes, iPhone fans and Apple nerds, it appears we have the first stateside leak of an actual (non-working) iPhone 7 Plus model a mockup, with a blue backing, that YouTube channel Unbox Therapy
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Tries To Solve Apple-Tidal Negotiations With Tweets Believing, as his wife does, that all the problems of the world can be solved with social media, Kanye West weighed in on Twitter on what are said to be some "choppy" negotiations,
SF News Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Calls Apple Tax Avoidance 'Fraud' With a market capitalization of $570 billion, Cupertino-based Apple is the wealthiest company in the world. And while it makes universally loved products, what the company does with its earnings is raising some
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 iPhone 7 Will Allegedly Come In Three Models; New Photos Just Leaked If you can hardly wait for the iPhone 7 to come out this fall, then here's a teaser for you. CNet reports, via some new leaked photos on Chinese social network Weibo, that
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
