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Stephen Colbert exposes Siri biases

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Stephen Colbert, America's indispensable authority on absolutely everything, decided to put Siri to the test on the Colbert Report to see if he could find an abortion clinic in Manhattan. Not only does he claim he can't find one, but he says it can't understand foreigners either. Well, Stephen, ...

Debunked: Ridiculous claims of 'pro-life' bias in Siri (Update: Apple responds)

by Chris Rawson (Nov 30th, 2011)

Update: The New York Times has a response. Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told them: "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming ...

Reports of iOS developer account shutdowns may be erroneous (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Aug 5th, 2011)

A report from Karthikk.net alleges that Apple has begun shutting down the accounts of iOS developers who have sold "slots" on their accounts to users wanting to run iOS 5 betas on their devices without paying the US$99 yearly development fee. For a while now, developers have been offering to ...

Does iOS 5 reveal a new iPod touch? (Updated)

by Erica Sadun (Jun 24th, 2011)

UPDATE: It would appear in our haste to check this, and with Erica's technical difficulties with her primary Mac, the 5.0 file was opened twice. A cross check with the 4.3.3 file indicates no such model (iPod4,2). Of course, this still doesn't mean there's a new iPod touch coming, but the ...

Debunked: Amazon book listings suggest Mac OS X Lion ship date

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2011)

TUAW readers know from past articles that Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is expected to ship sometime this summer -- Apple told us that during the Back to the Mac event on October 20, 2010. Now MacNN has noted that listings for Lion books in the UK Amazon bookstore may indicate a possible ship date for the ...

Prevent Spotlight from resurrecting your deleted emails on iPhone

by Michael Jones (Aug 18th, 2009)

Note: The problem discussed below behaves differently depending on the type of email account being used. Users of POP mail accounts are indeed noticing a problem with deleted email messages appearing in Spotlight search results. Please see this post for updated information. Our friends over at ...