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Apple’s biggest rivals come to its legal defense

The FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into a terrorist’s iPhone has done the seemingly impossible by getting Microsoft, Google and Apple all on the same team. Many of the country’s top tech firms have revealed that they will file friend-of-the court briefs in defense of Apple’s position that no company should be compelled […]

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Look at how Apple’s new flagship store is coming along

The new Apple Store coming soon to San Francisco appears to be making decent progress. Leo Cheng snapped a nice photo from Solano Labs across the street from the new location and tweeted it at us. The store still looks like a hot mess, but the workers are apparently working on the glass doors for the […]

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How to get Apple’s latest software before everyone else

Want to get your hands on the latest, greatest iOS and OS X features for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac before anyone else does? Do you love checking out all the new stuff in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan so you can be the first to comment on them? All you need to […]

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Apple and FBI will duke it out at congressional hearing March 1

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee announced both FBI director James Comey and Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell are testifying at a congressional hearing on encryption March 1. The saga is far from over, since both will state their cases on the matter of whether the government should have access to users’ iPhone data. The congressional hearing ultimately […]

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The ultimate guide to iPhone and iPad password managers

As we store more and more of our information digitally, it becomes more important than ever to make sure our data is safeguarded. To ensure security, you should always use strong and unique passwords. Password manager apps aren’t hard to use, and once you get started, they actually offer you more convenience than any other […]

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Your old Apple TV is ready for its update

Apple released a very small update for third-generation Apple TV owners today. The update still shows up as iOS 8.4.1 but has a new build number, so it’s probably just a bug fix update. If you plan to stick by your third-gen Apple TV for a while, it’s probably worth downloading. You can get the software […]

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Google’s amazing neural network tells you where any photo was taken

Google’s neural network continues to amaze. With a new deep-learning machine called PlaNet, which has been trained by 126 million images and their accompanying EXIF data, it has picked up the “superhuman” ability to pinpoint the location of almost any photo. A team led by Tobias Weyand, a computer vision specialist at Google, created PlaNet by […]

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4-inch iPhone 5se may not be enough to reverse slowing iPhone sales

Apple is widely expected to break with tradition by introducing its much-rumored 4-inch iPhone 5se in March, but despite predictions that this could net Apple an extra 10 million+ unit sales per year, it may not be enough to reverse the larger trend of slowing iPhone sales. Tim Cook has been clear that Apple is […]

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Arizona county attorney picks politics over privacy

Saying that Apple’s refusal to help an FBI investigation puts the company “on the side of terrorists,” Maricopa County, Arizona’s county attorney’s office will no longer issue iPhones for official use. Prosecutor Bill Montgomery issued the public statement today after privately communicating the new policy to “applicable staff” on Sunday. “Apple’s refusal to cooperate with […]

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Tim Cook to ABC: ‘This case is not about one phone’

In an interview with ABC News tonight, Apple CEO Tim Cook described the code the FBI is asking the company to make to crack San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone as “the software equivalent of cancer.” Cook sat down in his office with World News Now anchor David Muir to explain why the tech giant […]

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