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Pro-Apple protesters plan to swarm courthouse outside FBI hearing

The FBI will be greeted by protestors when it faces off against Apple at the U.S. District Courthouse in Riverside, CA on March 22nd. Fight for the Future — the same group that rallied at Apple Stores across the country last month — is organizing another protest against the FBI’s federal court order compelling Apple […]

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LastPass aims to make two-factor authentication less annoying

Two-factor authentication is super secure, but incredibly annoying when you’re in a hurry. LastPass, one of the front-runners in password managers on desktop and mobile, might have the solution with a new mobile app that will simplify the login process to LastPass, which can then manage your many web accounts with ease. Instead of entering […]

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Tiny chip could give iPhone 7 Plus more storage than ever

The iPhone 7 Plus may boast more storage than any smartphone Apple’s ever created, if the company uses a tiny new chip by SanDisk that packs 256GB of flash storage. Photos of the new chip destined for smartphones surfaced on an Italian tech blog comparing them to the old 64GB NAND flash chip SanDisk made […]

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Instagram thinks it knows which pictures you want to see

The latest Internet outrage upon us: Instagram is killing chronological order. The photo-sharing platform announced the change today in a blog post and says that the update will let you users “see the moments they care about first.” Reaction to the news is predictably negative, considering that time has served us well as a measurement […]

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Ive says Apple Watch is a fashion system, not a product

Apple Watch was never designed to be a singular product, according to Jony Ive, but a whole fashionable system in its own right. Not just in a functional sense, either, as part of an Apple tech ecosystem. In an interview with Mashable’s Christina Warren, Ive points out the form that enriches the Apple Watch function. […]

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Apple accuses FBI of using All Writs Act like ‘magic wand’

Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell said the FBI threw “all decorum to the winds” in its latest federal court filing, but in the company’s official response today it has vowed it does not “intend to response in kind.” The iPhone-maker says in its latest filing that the FBI’s claim that it exhausted all viable investigative […]

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Google is pushing to encrypt more of its services

The latest Google Transparency Report shows that since January 23, 77 percent of all requests to its servers have used encrypted connections. The numbers on the new report are current as of February 27, and the company says it’s “working hard” to achieve full encryption across all of its services. Interestingly, the 77 percent figure […]

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14 weird and wonderful gowns from Apple’s fashion exhibit

Apple’s upcoming fashion exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to open in May, but if you can’t make it to the Big Apple to see which designer pieces Jony Ive and Co. hand-picked as examples for how technological advancements have altered fashion, the museum has given a sneak peek at […]

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Ex-NSA lawyer uses tacky metaphor to slam Apple

Commentary on the encryption battle between Apple and the U.S. government might have received its strangest metaphor yet. Stewart Baker, who used to serve as a counsel for the National Security Agency, appeared on a panel at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin this week. During the discussion, he said that Apple’s current, […]

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How to view your Google Drive files faster with Launch Center Pro

Launch Center Pro has solved many workflow problems for me over the years. Most recently it’s been an immense time-saver when it comes to accessing Google Drive files I need often. While the Google Drive app itself is decent enough, it only acts as a hub to Google’s other apps, which is somewhat annoying. That’s […]

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