Apple unveils new and exclusive Sports band color options for the Apple Watch Edition
During a recent event held at the Salone Del Mobile Design fair in Milan, Italy, Apple unveiled a number of new Sports band colors for …
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Ben & Jerry’s brilliantly parodies Apple’s ‘1984’ ad in promotion for its new BRRR-ito
Apple’s “1984” ad is justifiably one of the most famous in the history of tech and it’s also wonderfully easy to parody. Ben & Jerry’s …
What the first Apple.com homepage looked like
Many of the earliest website designs to populate the web are nothing more than distant and irretrievable memories. While sites like the The Internet Archive …
French government really doesn’t want you comparing its new surveillance bill to the Patriot Act
France insists it’s not working on a French version of the U.S. Patriot Act that would give the government massive additional surveillance powers, The Verge …
Watch: A genius animator has already recreated the new Star Wars trailer with Legos
We love the Internet for many reasons but chief among them is how it gives so many talented people a creative platform that they otherwise …
How Hollywood is waging war against VPNs
Virtual private networks (VPNs) aren’t some wild-and-crazy piece of hacker technology — in fact, anyone who’s ever worked remotely has likely connected to corporate email …
Esteemed Apple blogger: Third-party Apple Watch apps ‘suck’ and are ‘really slow’
During this week’s episode of John Gruber’s podcast, The Talk Show, Gruber sat down with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal to talk all …
Bloomberg: Antitrust regulators are gearing up to kill the Comcast-TWC merger
It’s hard to believe, but it sounds like American antitrust regulators have concluded that a merger between America’s two most hated companies is not in …
Ex-iOS boss Scott Forstall resurfaces in a place you wouldn’t expect
In late 2012, Apple’s iOS chief Scott Forstall was unceremoniously let go from the company he helped bring back to greatness. A longtime Steve Jobs lieutenant, …
8 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free to download right now
It’s Friday and what better way to kick off your weekend than by installing some paid iPhone apps that you can get for free right now …
Don’t panic, Apple will teach you how to use the Watch
Yes, the Apple Watch is coming soon, and yes, it features a more complex user interface that will require some getting used to. But you …
The impossible has happened: Bing has become relevant
For a long time, it looked like Bing would just go down in history as a failed attempt by Microsoft to compete with Google. But …
Why Apple just bought 36,000 acres of forest land
Together with The Conservation Fund, Apple on Thursday announced its plan to acquire upwards of 36,000 acres of forest land in the eastern United States, in Maine …
Watch: Conan ruthlessly trashes the Apple Watch
As opposed to JJ Abrams or, say, Pharrell, Conan O’Brien sidekick Andy Richter wasn’t bestowed with a pre-release Apple Watch. Still, that didn’t stop the …
Want cheaper Netflix? Then pirate more movies
Here’s something we get the feeling that Netflix CFO David Wells will regret admitting publicly. TorrentFreak notices that during Netflix’s earnings call this week, Wells …
Watch: Guided video walk-through of the Apple Watch’s most useful features
With the Apple Watch launch just about a week away, consumers will undoubtedly become increasingly curious about some of the device’s more unique features and …
World’s best Apple analyst says he knows how many Watches were preordered
Earlier this week, some preliminary sales figures extrapolated by the research firm Slice Intelligence indicated that initial pre-order volume for the Apple Watch may have come …
Apple just publicly acknowledged the mess it made with its Watch release date
Much has already been said on the fact that Apple’s Watch launch is basically a mess from a simple perspective: the company’s most important new …
GameStop will start buying and selling classic games and consoles later this year
You might finally be able to find that Sega Dreamcast you’ve been searching for at GameStop in the coming months. On Tuesday, IGN revealed that GameStop is …
Watch SpaceX’s reusable rocket come agonizingly close to safely landing on an ocean platform
SpaceX on Tuesday once again tried to safely land one of its game-changing reusable rockets onto an ocean platform and it came agonizingly close to …
In 2015, iPhone sales may finally overtake Windows PC sales
Over the past few years, PC sales have been on a steady decline. Considering the universal popularity of the smartphone, this shouldn’t come as much …
Netflix is the bellwether for cord cutting’s future – and today it looks unstoppable
A few minutes after reporting its quarterly report, Netflix share prices spiked by 12%, despite having already climbed by 40% so far this year. The key …
Huge survey suggests Apple will sell over 15 million Apple Watches in the U.S. alone
If this week’s earlier estimates are right, it took the Apple Watch just days to become the best-selling smartwatch of all time. While that obviously …
Not an April Fools joke: Samsung has team of 200 employees working only for Apple
Samsung is apparently very interested in accommodating Apple’s needs, as the South Korean giant has created a standalone team of 200 employees that’s working exclusively …
Math problem from Singapore goes viral – can you solve it?
There’s a new viral sensation sweeping the Internet. But this time, it has nothing to do with the color of a dress or a superhuman …
Flip phone user asks the Internet how he can ask for girls’ numbers without feeling like a loser
Not everyone owns or wants a smartphone… and there’s nothing wrong with that! Nonetheless, Gawker directs our attention to one insecure flip phone owner who …
Still not sure about the Apple Watch? This company will let you rent one
One of the biggest questions surrounding the Apple Watch, and coincidentally one of the things that might separate the Apple Watch from traditional watches, surrounds …
The biggest irony of the EU’s antitrust case against Google
When I woke up this morning, I full expected to write another scathing opinion piece tearing Google to shreds for acting as a bullying monopolist. …
Google’s EU antitrust nightmare is just getting started
The European Union is taking its probe into Google’s search practices to new heights, Bloomberg reports, bringing antitrust charges against the company after four years …
ISPs have two choices: Live with net neutrality rules or live with real competition
I’ve had conversations in the past with people from Europe who just don’t understand why America needs to have network neutrality restrictions. Their argument is …
