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If you've been waiting for the day when you could cool off in the midst of an A/C unit connected to your trusty iPhone, the long wait is finally over.

Meet the Quirky + GE Aros Smart Window Air Conditioner. Scheduled to ship in May, the futuristic A/C unit will run $300.

"Dumb window A/C units only give you two options: Leave the air on all day — while burning expensive electricity — or come home ...

With very little racial diversity to be found among the top executive ranks at some of the world's largest tech companies, civil rights Rev. Jesse Jackson is drawing attention to this undeniable reality.

From Apple to Facebook, Rev. Jackson is calling out a number of prominent brands and challenging them to do more in a strongly-worded letter that went public today.

Calling for an increase in employment ...

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony recently unveiled Project Morpheus, which is the Japanese electronics giant’s highly anticipated entrance into virtual reality hardware. Shown off in prototype form, Sony’s futuristic head-mounted display represents the first real stab at virtual reality immersion from a mainstream first-party console maker according to the folks over at The Verge. President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida had ...

According to a recently released report, Apple is the most valuable billion-dollar US brand name. The Cupertino California company topped a list of 500 firms including branding heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and McDonalds. The report claims Apple’s brand is worth $104.6 billion, putting it comfortably ahead of runner up Google’s $68.6 billion valuation according to the Silicon Valley ...

Haunted Empire, a new release from former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane, is a book that examines the transition Apple has had after death of Steve Jobs. Although there are interesting parts to the book, it has been reported that Kane decided on a few anecdotes to support an already decided conclusion that points toward Apple being in a decline.

According to CNBC, Apple CEO, Tim Cook took an ...

The Canadian post-secondary students with access to an Apple Authorized Campus Store will soon have to look elsewhere for Macs and iPads as the company has decided not to re-up contracts with higher education outlets due to declining sales. A person who claims to be familiar with Apple’s plans said the company will be closing all community college and university Authorized Campus Stores in ...

Although this month’s release of iOS 7.1 fixed a number of bugs and crashes that had affected Apple’s mobile platform for months and has reduced the overall number of system crashes, the update has also introduced a number of new and different glitches being seen by certain iPhone users.

Various threads on Apple’s support forums have pointed toward issues that appear to be instances where apps or the iPhone touchscreen ...

The latest beta versions of Apple’s Safari Web browser for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion were seeded to developers recently. People who are familiar with the dubbed Safari 7.0.3 for OS X 10.9 Mavericks and Safari 6.1.3 for Mountain Lion pre-release software, have reported that the company is asking developers to keep their focus on general website compatibility, AutoFill features, ...

Those of you that used Badger will be happy to hear that the developer has released Badger 7, an iOS 7-compatible tweak that lets you view your incoming notifications on a per-application basis, and then choose to do what you want with them.

Badger 7 offers a completely all-new design that is iOS 7-friendly, as you can see above. With it, you can swipe up on an application icon that you have notifications in, and a transparent interface will appear with the background nicely blurred, and you will see all of the pending notifications ...

One of the features of iOS 7 that's not so pleasant is the resume call banner. It's the green banner that appears at the top of the display whenever you leave the Phone or FaceTime application while in the middle of a phone call or a FaceTime call. You can tap on it to return to the application you're in a call in.

The problem with it is that Apple used such a bright neon green that it's really hard to read the bright white text ...

One of the major improvements in iOS 7.1, which dropped to the public a couple of weeks ago, is the largely-improved Calendar application that includes the ability to see a list of events while in the Calendar's month view, and a number of country-specific holidays that have been added to the Calendar as well.

Unfortunately, iOS 7.1 patches the evasi0n7 jailbreak, and therefore, many people won't be updating; but that doesn't mean that those who don't update can't get ...