SF News Rumored New iPhone To Be All Glass (Ensuring Top Breakability) After last month's roundly mocked unveiling of the next line of iPhones disappointed the Cupertino faithful, Apple-watchers this week jumped on early reports that the next phone model to come from the technology
SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Apple Wants Answers About How The FBI Hacked That iPhone Apple remains in the dark about how a federally contracted "outside party" believed to be Israeli mobile forensics specialists Cellebrite succeeded in circumventing the security protections in the iPhone 5C in order to
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 [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 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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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 iPhone 6 Pluses Are Bending In People's Pockets Be honest. You were just waiting with bated breath to find out what the first public disaster with the iPhone 6 would be. Wait no longer! They bend. The smartphones, which are roughly
Arts & Entertainment People Are Already Dropping, Microwaving Their iPhones Allright, people. All those downtown iPhone campers we talked to last night are presumably home taking a much-needed nap. Klaus Bandisch and the rest of the "surprisingly chill" Chestnut Street Apple store crowd
