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Tim Cook: FBI demands are both hard and wrong

If you can’t wait to see Apple CEO Tim Cook’s talk with ABC News anchor David Muir in a few hours, the network has released a couple of interesting previews ahead of the airing. In them, Cook addresses both the difficulty of the company’s refusal to the FBI’s demands to unlock a terrorist’s phone and […]

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How to use Facebook’s new Reactions emojis the right way

Trying to express your empathy for a friend’s grief, or your outrage at a recent political post, has been a Facebook conundrum since day one. No one wants to Like things they don’t actually, well, like. It’s just too limiting. That’s why Mark Zuckerberg and Co. just rolled out Facebook’s new Reactions, five new emotional […]

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How to quickly rid your inbox of junk mail with a single iPhone app

If you’re looking for a better way to manage email subscriptions and junk mail, your life is about to get a whole lot better. Unroll.me is an iPhone app that lets you quickly triage and manage all your subscriptions in one place. When I first scanned my iCloud inbox, Unroll.me found more than 70 subscriptions […]

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Congressional ‘Crypto Commission’ may tackle Apple vs FBI debate

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he wishes the company’s current battle with the FBI will be resolved by Congress, rather than in a courtroom, and it appears that he just may get his wish. Lawmakers in both the House of Representatives and the Senate plan to propose a new commission be created that […]

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How to keep embarrassing Instagram pics off your profile

There’s a big difference between photos you put up on Instagram and those that your buddies upload and then tag you in. Chances are, the ones you’re tagged in aren’t as flattering as the ones you put up yourself. If you want to keep embarrassing Instagram pics off your profile, here’s what you can do. […]

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Tim Cook to talk Apple’s FBI battle in ABC interview tonight

Tim Cook is continuing his PR crusade against the FBI this week, only instead of publishing another open letter about Apple’s pro-privacy stance, the CEO will sit down for an interview with David Muir tonight on ABC’s World News Tonight. Apple has publicly defied a federal court order to assist the FBI in unlocking the […]

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How I finally got serious about my photography [Reviews]

Even if the “teacher” is a college kid with bad diction, the one-hour Lightroom Basics course that I just took is pretty darn fantastic. I have to take a lot of photos here at Cult of Mac, especially for reviews. Every gadget and gewgaw I review gets a big, bold photo at the top to […]

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Apple supporters rally across the US in protest of FBI

Apple fans rallied behind their privacy savior in over 50 cities across the US today to protest the FBI’s demands that Apple unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone and compromise the security of millions of users’ data in the process. Grassroots organized protests broke out from Albuquerque to Washington DC aiming to bring more public awareness […]

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Kicked off iOS, F.lux is coming to Android

Apple may have killed the anti-eyestrain app F.lux on the iPhone, in favor of their own ‘Night Shift’ mode. But fans of F.lux on the Mac and PC will be happy to know it is now coming to Android. For those that don’t know, F.lux is an indispensible app for PC, Mac, and jailbroken iPhones […]

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Apple’s not crippling the Apple Pencil after all

Don’t worry iPad Pro lovers, Apple isn’t nerfing it’s fancy Pencil. The company removed the ability to navigate in iOS 9.3 with the Apple Pencil in the last four beta updates, but Apple reassured users today that it will bring the functional it back by the time iOS 9.3 is available to the public, it’s […]

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