SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News Tragic Apple Watch Erotica Is Like The Movie 'Her,' But Terrible As the long-awaited Apple Watch begins to ship to customers, one fan is "shipping" his super bootleg erotic technology fantasy, Invaded by the iWatch. Yes, he changed Apple Watch to “iWatch” because of
Arts & Entertainment This Mini Apple II Is The Smart Watch We Should Really Be Talking About Instructables, the delightful site where you can learn how to do or make just about anything, has released this video for a retro-style Apple watch based on the historic Apple II in a
Arts & Entertainment 'Also Shot On iPhone 6,' The Apple-Spoofing Ad Campaign We Deserve If you've seen a billboard recently, you've probably been confronted with an image shot on an iPhone 6. And they look good, even blown up to extreme new heights. Apple has assembled some
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple Could Be Worth $1 Trillion? Silicon Valley techies are flying to SoCal to snap up cheap (compared to SF) mansions. [AP] A UCSF staffer was arrested for secretly recording women in the restroom. [KTVU] Apple could be worth
SF News Tim Cook Once Offered Steve Jobs Part Of His Liver A new detail about the closeness of current Apple CEO Tim Cook and the late Steve Jobs has emerged in an excerpt from the forthcoming book Becoming Steve Jobs. In it, as Fast
SF News The CIA Has Been Trying To Crack iPhone's Security Encryption For Years A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on
SF News [Updated] You Can Buy A $10,000 Apple Watch: Live-Blogging Today's Apple Event This morning, the wizards of Apple Inc. — most notably Tim Cook, the company's CEO, and Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, its Senior Vice President of Design — will be speaking in pure hyperbole about their
SF News Out With The Old: Apple Will Replace AT&T In Dow Index Despite it remaining a telecommunications giant, AT&T will be losing its long-held place on the Dow Jones industrial average to Apple as of March 19, as the New York Times is
SF News Apple Watch To Be Unveiled, For Real This Time, March 9 Invitations have gone out for Apple's next big unveiling event, on March 9, with the cheeky and obvious tagline "Spring Forward" as the sole clue about what the focus of the event will
Arts & Entertainment Apple Adds Racially Diverse Emoji; Asians Already Crying 'Yellowface!' In the next update of Apple's OS and iOS, there will be new sets of emoji in six different skin tones, in order to reflect the racial diversity of the planet, and iPhone
SF News Drive Different: Apple Racing To Produce Electric Car Set your Apple Watch for 2020 because Bloomberg reports that the company has been secretly working on a car to be produced in as few as five years. Sources, though of course not
SF News Check Out The Original Apple Watch (From 1995) What if I told you that the Apple Watch was already out there, and had been since 1995? At that, some Apple fanboys might self-destruct. But the true fans would know that Apple
SF News Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now
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
