Inside iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone Jack
The standard audio jack that connects your headphones to just about everything has been around for nearly 100 years. Here’s why Apple thought it was time for a change.

September 8, 2016 at 06:34AM
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The opposite of the early adopter has a name, and it isn’t kind
Smartphones feel ubiquitous. But they’re not. One in five Americans has yet to buy one. And that raises a question: Who are the holdouts?

September 8, 2016 at 01:45AM
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So, What Is The New iPhone 7 Like?
As was rumored, the iPhone 7 has done away with the headphone jack and is water-resistant. The 7 Plus is sporting two cameras, one that can shoot in telephoto and the other wide-angle.

September 7, 2016 at 03:01PM
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An Experiment That Measures How Much Force Photons Exert On Objects
Light is composed of photons, which transmit energy, and thus contain mass (E=mc² ). So it should be possible to measure how much pressure those photons are producing.

September 7, 2016 at 01:03PM
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How Tesla Autopilot drove a man with a blood clot to the hospital, and expanded the autonomous car debate
News of the fatal crash involving Tesla Autopilot has sparked necessary debate over safety. The counterpoint is a life recently saved by Autopilot. Here’s the story.

September 7, 2016 at 12:51PM
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The Best Bidet Toilet Seat or Washlet
After 20 hours of exhaustive, erm, testing, the Sweethome unveils their pick for the best toilet seat to clean your bottom.

September 7, 2016 at 11:35AM
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Today in Apple history: The iPhone’s terrible ancestor
September 7, 2005: Apple teams with Motorola to release the ROKR E1, the first Apple-sanctioned cellphone to run iTunes. Steve Jobs is very unhappy with the results.

September 7, 2016 at 10:35AM
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AirPods and the Iris Engine: talking to the lawyer who thinks he found Apple’s secret trademarks
Trademark attorney Brian Conroy claims to have dug up a litany of Apple trademark applications that include names no one else has seen. Among those: Iris Engine, Smart Button, Touch Bar, and Control Strip, all of which sound like plausible titles for rumored iPhone and MacBook features.

September 7, 2016 at 07:33AM
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Just The Good Stuff 
Every six months, the folks at Apple emerge from the Infinite Loop to reveal their next batch of consumer technology. On Wednesday, September 7 at 10 am PDT (1 pm EDT), they are expected to announce a new phone: the iPhone 7.

September 7, 2016 at 06:25AM
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Why An AI-Judged Beauty Contest Picked Nearly All White Winners
Beauty.ai, an initiative by the Russia and Hong Kong-based Youth Laboratories and supported by Microsoft and Nvidia, ran a beauty contest with 600,000 entrants, who sent in selfies from around the world — India, China, all over Africa, and the US.

September 6, 2016 at 05:39PM
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