Arts & Entertainment Video: New iPhone SE Mocked As 'A Phone From Three Years Ago' As quickly as Apple announced the release of a new, cheaper and smaller model of the iPhone that is basically the same as the iPhone 5S with a bit more speed, dubbed the
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock and/or retrieve data
SF News Feds Can Likely Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Postpone Tomorrow's Hearing Well this certainly is interesting. According to Nate Cardozo, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the government moved to vacate tomorrow's scheduled hearing in the ongoing Apple versus the FBI encryption
SF News [Update] Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Smaller iPad, Updated Watch Bands Scroll to the bottom for updates following this morning's launch. Apple CEO Tim Cook made headlines today, but in contrast to the last few weeks the talk won't be about encryption. Instead, expect
SF News Key Apple Engineers Suggest They'll Quit If Feds Force Them To Unlock iPhone The FBI may face a new hurdle in their eager attempt to get around Apple's encryption technology and unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, and that would be Apple's
SF News Apple Doesn't Need To Unlock Phones For Government, Says Federal Judge The most prominent case regarding a government order for Apple, Inc. is the one you've no doubt been following: The one in which the FBI is compelling the company to unlock an iPhone
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than a week
Arts & Entertainment Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows
SF News Rally Supporting Apple's Decision To Fight FBI iPhone Hacking Request Planned For Tonight A group supporting Apple's decision to fight a FBI demand that the company create a custom operating system allowing the government agency access to data on an otherwise locked iPhone plans to rally
SF News Apple Will Fight Court Order To Hack Into iPhone Of San Bernardino Shooter Apple is vowing to fight a court's order issued last week telling them to help feds build a "backdoor" to the iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Says He's $53 Million In Debt, Asks Zuckerberg For $1 Billion Kanye West had another of his seemingly manic, barely coherent Twitter meltdowns over the weekend in which he admitted to having "$53 million in personal debt," and then performed a millionaire's version of
Arts & Entertainment Apple Bankrolls Their First Scripted TV Series, Starring Dr. Dre Apple is, slowly but surely, getting into the TV game, and today we learn from The Hollywood Reporter that the company's first ever original TV series is now in the works. It's called
SF News SFPD Books Suspect In Popular DJ's Stabbing, DA's Office Holds Off On Charges Pending Investigation The San Francisco Police Department says they've caught the man who allegedly stabbed a popular local DJ outside a downtown nightclub, just a day after the stabbing victim died at the hospital. As
SF News Trump Vows To Force Apple To Manufacture Things In U.S. As the man who would be President, Donald Trump, continues to spout generalizations and make blanket promises that a certain segment of Americans want to hear, he has a new one aimed at
SF News Apple Formally Opposes Shareholder Call For Increased Diversity Apple is calling a shareholder call for increased diversity among higher management "unduly burdensome" and unnecessary. In an official statement issued earlier this month in preparation for an upcoming February 26 shareholder meeting,
SF News Hands Wrung, Pearls Clutched Over Rumor That Next iPhone Won't Have A Headphone Jack Rumors that the next iPhone might have fewer holes have come and gone for months now, but a report on a frequently-reliable Japanese blog has the Western world buzzing that the upcoming iPhone
Arts & Entertainment Apple Exec Apologizes After Suggesting Women Can't Figure Out How To Listen To Music The head of Apple's new streaming service is apologizing this week, after he suggested that woman, perhaps because they are woman (?) are confused by how to find music to listen to. Record producer
SF News [Update] Tour Bus Collides With New Apple Store At Union Square, Five People Critically Injured A double-decker tour bus with an open-air top reportedly lost control and crashed into the construction site of the new Apple flagship store, at the corner of Post and Stockton, just before 3
Arts & Entertainment Now Your iPhone Comes With A Burrito Emoji Apple yesterday released an update to its mobile operating system, iOS 9.1, and while the update included various bug fixes and (we're sure) important upgrades to system functionality, the clear stars of
SF News Local Man Claims His iPhone 6 Plus Exploded In His Pocket It's still unclear what causes this to happen, but iPhones occasionally explode and burn people, and this happened to local car mechanic Kevin Abuyaghi KRON 4, who reported the story, discuss how he's
SF News Apple Appears To Be Designing A Smart Ring Now For everyone who thinks the Apple Watch is an unnecessary advance, check out the Apple Ring. A new patent application filed Thursday and noted by Forbes and Techworm, among others, suggests that Apple
SF News You Should Probably Get In Line Now: New iPhones Arrive In Stores Friday It seems like just yesterday that everyone was bitching about Apple's Civic Center take-over to announce (among other things) the iPhone 6s. And today Apple has confirmed that those new phones will be
Arts & Entertainment Video: New <em>Steve Jobs</em> Trailer Drops, Feels Very Aaron Sorkin-y Sure, you could go see Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the documentary about the Apple co-founder released earlier this month. But why do that when you can gaze upon a be-turtlenecked
Arts & Entertainment Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks About Coming Out On Colbert Continuing to stuff his interview schedule with business and technology titans in week two of the new Late Show, Stephen Colbert last night chatted with Apple CEO Tim Cook, both on serious topics
SF News Apple Event Fallout: New iPhone Camera Takes Secret Video, Backlash Over Adobe App While the New York Times continues to give slobbery kisses to Apple and its iPhones every chance it gets, there has been some inevitable criticism following yesterday's splashy September product unveiling. First among
