Mobile
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AirDrop Is Your iPhone’s Most Underrated Tool
For all the complains you can levy against Apple — user-hostile repair and upgrade practices, The Great Slowdown, removing the headphone jack — there remains an undeniable truth: Overall, the user experience you get from using Apple’s devices is simply better than anything else. And this is doubly true if you stay within Apple’s walled…
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A Jailbreaker Was Allegedly Behind Apple’s iBoot Source Code Leak
The code to the iOS 9 version of the iPhone’s iBoot software — the proprietary system that ensures trusted launches of iOS, and one of Apple’s closely held secrets — leaked this week on Github, the open-source code repository. According to Motherboard, sources now say a low-level employee who stole the code at work was…
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Social Media Is Bad, So Here Are 7 Other Apps To Use On Your Phone
You’ve stood at a bus stop, or in a line at the supermarket, or you’ve sat waiting for a movie to start, so you immediately reach for Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat, right? Well, maybe not, because here are seven app categories we’ve picked out that are a better use of your downtime than scrolling…
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Face ID Is Unstoppable
It sucks when a new technology comes along and creeps everybody out. It sucks even more when that technology is so good, so life-changing that even the most discerning consumer sets that anxiety aside and says, “Who cares if Apple owns detailed biometric data about my face?” That’s what Face ID has done to me…