SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone 6S Details Leaked Zillow now claims that $4252 is SF's median rent, up from $4225, but we know better. [CBS 5] Caught on tape: man walks into Richmond District bike shop, steals thousand-dollar bike, assaults owner.
SF News So Far Fitbits Seem To Be Out-Selling Apple Watches In its first full month on the market, according to one data source, the Apple Watch failed to outsell the already popular health monitoring device the Fitbit. The SF Business Times reports the
SF News Bad Blood Over: Taylor Swift (And Everyone Else) Will Get Royalties During Apple Music Trial After her highly publicized Tumblr plea, Apple has heard Taylor Swift and will now pay artists royalties during its Apple Music three-month trial. Apple senior VP Ed Cue Tweeted last night, "We hear
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Swift Wants Apple To Pay Musicians For Their Hard Work Taylor Swift's 1989 has sold almost 9 million copies, worldwide, but you won't be able to find it on Apple's soon-to-be music streaming service. On June 30, Apple will launch Apple Music, a
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Is Apple So Obsessed With Tartine Bakery? We've all become pretty accustomed to seeing Bay Area references and shoutouts popping up in the demos and advertising for Apple products West Coast time is always listed as Cupertino time, the doomed
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
SF News Apple Works To Fix Glitch That Lets You Turn Off Anyone's iPhone With A Text Leave it to the noble citizens of Reddit to discover and exploit a glitch in Apple's mobile software that allows users to shut down another person's iPhone by sending them certain text message.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Michael Fassbender Faces Thunderous Applause In First Trailer For 'Steve Jobs' Just last year, the cast and crew for an Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic was in chaos. Director David Fincher had bailed on the project, as had possible star Leonardo DiCaprio. Though eventual
Arts & Entertainment Apple Watch Shatters Pretty Easily, Doesn't Work With Wrist Tattoos, Might Irritate Sensitive Skin It's been five days since the Apple Watch came out, and the internet has rushed to put the device through a litany of non-professional impact and torture tests, because who needs Consumer Reports
Arts & Entertainment Video: Apple Watch Destroyed By Blender The people at Blendtec, the blender manufacturer, have been doing this "Will it blend?" thing for a while now, via YouTube, to market their blenders. Now, overly smarmy "scientist" Tom Dickson (he's actually
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