Foxconn’s Suicide Solution: Robot Worker Empire

It may sound like something out of an Isaac Asimov novel or a James Cameron film, but the parent company of iPhone maker Foxconn is working to build an “empire of robots” to replace over a million Chinese workers. The company, which assembles devices for a number of electronics giants including Apple, broke ground Saturday [...]

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These Three New iPhone 4S Ads Are Some Of Apple’s Best Yet [Video Gallery]

Over the weekend, Apple launched three new iPhone 4S ads: one for the iPhone 4S’s incredible new 8MP camera and iOS 5′s Photo Editing abilities, one for iCloud and one for Siri. They all really speak for themselves, but even so, this is Apple advertising at its finest. You can find the other two ads [...]

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Apple Stores Will Soon Let You Self-Checkout Purchases Using Official iOS App

The official Apple Store app is already a useful tool if you have to sally forth into meat space, allowing you to schedule appointment times at your local Genius Bar, reserve items for pickup at your local Apple Store and the like. Come November 3rd, though, the Apple Store iOS app is set to gain [...]

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RunKeeper’s Latest App Update Will Help Prevent Your Heart From Exploding

When I, through sheer exertion of will, lift this moribund pile of musky flab out of the desk chair to which it transhumanistically is trying to absorb, put on my sweatbands and take myself out for a wheezing, gasping “jog”, RunKeeper is my preferred app for tracking the whole ordeal. The free app is already [...]

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Siri Could Someday Save Your Life By Calling 911 For You

Up until now, Apple’s Siri voice-recognition system has been shown in a humorous light. However, what if Siri could save your life? People remaking next-generation 911 services see Siri as the voice of emergency victims, not just a locator of the nearest sushi joint. “Once the word ‘emergency’ is spoken to Siri, a range of [...]

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Slimmer, Faster MacBook Pro ‘Airs’ Are In Development For 2012 Release [Rumor]

It’s been three years since the last major design refresh of the MacBook Pro, and we’ve been hearing whispers for almost a year that the next major update would see Apple’s professional line of laptops take on some of the characteristics of the MacBook Air line: slimmer profiles, ubiquitous SSDs, no optical drives. If those [...]

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Oasis Star Declares: “iPhones Are For $%@!s”

(Photo by Chrissy Polcino, used with thanks under Creative Commons license.) So here’s former Oasis megastar Noel Gallagher, quoted in The Mirror this weekend: I just want a basic 1994 Nokia mobile. I can keep it in my back pocket and just do the basics with it â€" phone and text. What would I need [...]

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Need A Last Minute Halloween Costume? Check Out The Fun You Can Have With Two iPad 2s [Video]

This has been all over the place today, but if you’re stuck for a Halloween costume idea and have two iPad 2s lying around, here’s a great suggestion: just initiate a FaceTime call between your iPads, duct tape them to your torso, pull on a ripped hoodie and smear fake blood all over yourself. It’ll [...]

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iCloud Solar Farm And Spaceship HQ Could Push Apple Costs To $8B

Apple’s massive new solar farm and their next-gen spaceship campus will boost the tech giant’s 2012 expense to $8 billion â€" a 73% hike over this year, one analyst told investors Monday. Apple’s capital expenditures are expected to jump by $3.4 billion in 2012, according to the company’s annual 10-K report with the Securities and [...]

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AirPlay Mirroring And iMessages Coming To OS X Lion? [Rumor]

This weekend broke news that Apple was already hard at work on OS X 10.8, so it would be natural to assume that in the next version of OS X, Cupertino will bring even more iOS functionality to their desktop operating system: stuff like Airplay and iMessages. Nope. But don’t be too disappointed. AirPlay and [...]

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