Apparently the HBO money is not enough to satisfy Cookie Monster. The furry blue monster appears in this Apple commercial demonstrating the iPhone 6s and Siri. The digital personal assistant is used to set a timer for when Cookie Monster's cookies will be finished baking. You can view the minute-long ad embedded below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbWyYr82BM … [Read more...]
John Oliver explains the Apple FBI Encryption argument
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver dove into the Apple FBI argument centered around the iPhone 6 captured from the San Bernadino, California terrorist event. It's a complicated issue. See the segment embedded below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw … [Read more...]
Apple event March 21 – “Let us loop you in.”
Apple will be giving a live keynote on March 21st at 10am PDT. The live page has the teasing tag line "Let us loop you in." Invites have gone out to the press. The teaser is unclear if the event will talk about Apple Watch bands, Apple's spaceship looking headquarters currently under construction, or something else for the iPhone. You can watch the keynote live … [Read more...]
OS X El Capitan security update blocks Apple Ethernet drivers
If the Ethernet network connection on your Mac running OS X 10.11 El Capitan stopped working in the last week, you are not alone. Apple released an update to the kernel extension blacklist that is used by the System Integrity Protection feature. This update installs automatically in the background, so there was nothing to approve or help people be aware of the cause of the … [Read more...]