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Now This Is How You Express Your Mac Love

5:00PM Yesterday | Andrew Tarantola

And you call yourself an Apple fanboy? Dressing up like a mutton-chopped Steve jobs (true to life!) while your buddy tromps about in a cyborg suit comprised of vintage Mac parts — that’s showing your fandom. More »


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4 Surprises From The Steve Jobs FBI File

2:30AM Yesterday | Adrian Covert

Gawker has unearthed Steve Jobs’s FBI file for us all to lay eyes on. Contained within are things most of us knew (or at least suspected). He had enemies? Duh. Drugs? Of course! But there are a few gems that managed to catch our eye. More »


Gadgets

This Is The Worst Steve Jobs Tribute Yet

3:30AM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

Since his passing, there have been countless wonderful tributes to Steve Jobs’s life and legacy — but this is not one of them. This $US15 hairdryer printed with his name is a cash grab, and a terrible one at that. More »


News

Steve Jobs Told Eric Schmidt To Stop Stealing Employees

11:30AM January 30, 2012 | Adrian Covert

Remember that civil lawsuit looming over the heads of some of the top Silicon Valley companies for conspiring not to poach each other’s employees? The latest juicy tidbit to leak from that involves Steve Jobs sending Eric Schmidt an email demanding that Google stop stealing. More »


News

This Is Obama’s 2012 State Of The Future

8:00AM January 26, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Over in the States, US President Obama had technology on the brain in his annual State of the Union address. Here’s what was interesting about this vision for the future. More »


Cameras

Report: Steve Jobs Wanted Lytro’s Crazy Camera Guts In The iPhone

6:45AM January 25, 2012 | Adrian Covert

Before Steve Jobs passed away, he apparently had made it known he was interested in meeting with Lytro CEO Ren Ng about the possibilities of light field capture technology in iPhones. And as the story goes, Ng obliged, setting up a meeting as swiftly as is humanly possible. More »


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Virgin America Plane Honours Steve Jobs

2:30AM January 25, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

People found Steve Jobs inspirational. A Bulgarian school found him so inspirational that they decided to rename their establishment in his honour. Now Virgin America has named one of its planes in memory of him too. More »


News

The Steve Jobs Action Figure Is Dead

1:00AM January 18, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

In Icons, the company responsible for the freaky-awesome Steve Jobs action figure, is stopping production because of legal threats from Apple and Jobs’s family. More »


Entertainment

The Simpsons Already Making Fun Of Steve Jobs

10:00PM January 14, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

You probably missed this among the CES news: the Simpsons made fun of Steve Jobs on this week’s episode, titled Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson. As Homer is being interviewed on TV, “Steve Jobs unveils iGhost” crawls across the news ticker. More »


News

What’s Going To Happen At Apple’s Special Event?

3:15PM January 13, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

Next Thursday’s Apple event in New York is going to feature something related to education. But it’s not a special tablet for students or any other kind of hardware, the New York Times reports. So what is it? More »