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iPhone 6 “Bendgate” scandal leads to copycat efforts

Never underestimate the power of stupidity in the face of an Internet trend. Per Daily Dot, two 15-year-old UK residents going by the names of “Kylie” and “Danny” recorded footage of themselves entering an iPhone 6 Plus and bending at least one iPhone 6 Plus handset, using the display table as leverage. Since the iPhone […]

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Apple patches Shellshock vulnerability, but it’s not in Software Update

Apple released OS X bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks to fix a vulnerability in the bash UNIX shell. “Shellshock” is believed to be much worse than the Heartbleed vulnerability that was discovered earlier this year. PC Magazine wrote about two scenarios that can make OS X vulnerable to the Shellshock bash bug: For example, Bash […]

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OS X Yosemite hits Golden Master, almost ready for debut

OS X Yosemite is almost ready. Per Macworld, Apple on Tuesday released the golden master candidate of its forthcoming Mac OS to members of its AppleSeed developer program. The GM version of an OS is typically the final product, though the developers who’ve been beta testing Yosemite since June still have time to find a […]

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Initial iPhone 6 Plus benchmarks show lower FPS rate, new benchmarking tools, additional pixels taken into consideration

In spite of some nifty new hardware, the iPhone 6 Plus may in fact generate a lower frames per second rate than the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5s handsets when it comes to rendering 2D and 3D graphics at its native resolution. Per AppleInsider, a set of GFXBench 3.0 GPU benchmarks published in an initial […]

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Seek Thermal releases affordably priced thermal camera for iOS, Android devices

If you’re looking for an affordable thermal camera for your iOS device, it may be en route sooner or later. Per VentureBeat, Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company Seek Thermal launched an affordable thermal camera for for iOS and Android devices on September 25 priced at a consumer-friendly US$199. The camera attachment is now available for purchase […]