Arts & Entertainment Android Creator Unveils New 'Essential' Smartphone, Home Hub Tech nerds have been abuzz all day Tuesday over the release of new details and specs of the Essential Phone, the already much buzzed about new device from Android creator and all around
Arts & Entertainment Apple Releases Red iPhone 7, And New Slightly Cheaper iPads If you were holding off on buying a new iPhone because the silver/jet black/matte black options weren't doing it for you last year, you can now buy the iPhone 7 and
Arts & Entertainment 10 Years Ago Today Apple Showed Us The First iPhone, And Steve Jobs's Hastiness Could Have Actually Been A Disaster Do you still have your original first-generation iPhone, just for the sake of tech nostalgia? They're so cute and tiny, right? Today in history, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stepped out onto the
SF News Apple Bows To Chinese Pressure And Pulls NYTimes From App Store Chinese Apple customers looking to download the New York Times app through the tech giant's App Store are out of luck, as the company has pulled the news app at the request of
SF News Link Circulating Online Freezes Any iOS Device When Opened A seemingly harmless video circulating online could mean a big headache for any Apple customer who mistakenly tries to play it, as the roughly five-second clip results in the eventual slowing down and
SF News Months Later, Apple Launches Repair Program For iPhone 'Touch Disease' Remember the "touch disease" phenomenon among iPhone 6 Pluses that came to light, ever so coincidentally, right around the time of the iPhone 7 launch? That was back in late August, and at
Arts & Entertainment New iOS Emoji Include Avocado, Facepalm, And What Appears To Be Harambe iPhone users, your visual vocabulary is about to increase by 72 emoji. 9to5mac and Emojipedia write that Apple has released to registered developers the first iOS 10.2 beta for iPhone and iPad.
SF News Get Ready For Some Good Crime Blotter Items When SF Apple Stores Let Floor Models Roam Free Every urban dweller knows better then to leave their cell phone lying around in public, as to do so would invite not just theft but the inevitable post-theft shaming from friends, family, and
SF News Profanity Protip: An Easy Way To Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting The F-Word Last night's presidential debate being what it was, many of us took to our cellphones to vent and commiserate with friends and family. While you may simply have asked someone to pinch you
SF News Smell Different: There's A 'New Mac' Scented Candle Have yet to get your hands on a shiny new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus? New-phone envy driving you mad? Then Apple accessory developer Twelve South has just the thing for you.
SF News Details Of Google's New Pixel Phone Accidentally Leaked Jumping the gun on an October 4 official release date, Canadian retailer Carphone Warehouse posted technical specs and photos of the new Google Pixel phone to its website over the weekend. Although CNet
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
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
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 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 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
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 Day Around The Bay: #HeterosexualPrideDay Can Go Eff Itself More from the SF Homeless Project: A look at how the issue of homelessness has been addressed by the local business community, and how it impacts local business (especially tourism) via the [SF
SF News Proposed Apple Invention Would Allow Other People/Agencies To Remotely Disable Your iPhone Camera It's a funny idea, a company seeking to decrease the usability of one of its most popular product's features. But that appears to be exactly what Apple is attempting to do to its
Arts & Entertainment The iPhone 7 Will Be Slightly Thinner, Lose Headphone Jack, Maintain Basic Design Getting excited to replace your scuffed up, increasingly battery-challenged iPhone 5 or 6 this fall? Well don't get too excited for the iPhone 7 to be a radical departure, because the Wall Street
Arts & Entertainment What To Expect From Next Week's WWDC Takeover Of San Francisco Apple fanatics will have their panties in one infinite loop next week, as Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will turn the Moscone Center and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium venues into Branch
SF News Feds May Have Paid iPhone Hackers More Than $1.3 Million How much did the FBI pay the "gray hat" hacker or hackers who successfully unlocked the iPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorism case? “A lot,” FBI chief James B. Comey Jr. said
