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Seth Rogen to play Steve Wozniak in upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, Christian Bale exits [updated]

Pineapple Express actor Seth Rogen to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opposite Christian Bale in upcoming Steve Jobs biopic directed by Danny Boyle.
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Christian Bale leaves Batman behind, will become Steve Jobs in upcoming Sorkin film

Christian Bale will star as Steve Jobs in a new biopic about the Apple cofounder's life. Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin will write the screenplay.
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Do we have Tim Cook to thank for the iPad mini?

A profile published in the New York Times throws some new light on Tim Cook and his history with Apple, including the origins of the iPad mini and his role in the development of the iWatch.

Sony wants Danny Boyle for its Steve Jobs biopic

Sony is reportedly in talks with director Danny Boyle to helm the Steve Jobs biopic.

David Fincher reportedly backs out of Steve Jobs biopic

Director David Fincher reportedly ends his involvement with Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic after a disagreement over his salary.
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Fincher wants Christian Bale as his Steve Jobs

After Ashton Kutcher's take on the life of Steve Jobs, could Christian Bale be the next actor to tackle the role of the visionary Apple leader? Reports suggest he's David Fincher's top choice.
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The buttonless Apple mouse was an accident

Sometimes things come about accidentally. Put the button-less Apple mouse in that column as well.
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Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs! A look at the life of a tech luminary

Steve Jobs, one of the tech industry's most influential figures, would be celebrating his 59th birthday today. Here, we take a brief look at his life and legacy.
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USPS planning to launch a Steve Jobs stamp in 2015

Possibly a collectors item for anyone that loves the history of Apple or Steve Jobs, the U.S. Postal Service will launch a new stamp next year that pays homage to the Apple co-founder.
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Nat Geo Channel unearths Steve Jobs’ Mouse from time capsule

The National Geographic Channel dug up some pretty interesting stuff from Steve Jobs' time capsule.

Would Apple have released a Sony notebook running OS X under Steve Jobs?

A former Sony exec says that there were plans to green-light a Sony notebook running OS X.
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Happy birthday, Mac! Remembering the original personal computer, 30 years later

Apple's Macintosh debuted thirty years ago today at $2,495, starting a PC revolution with its advanced, yet intuitive, graphical interface.
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House where Steve Jobs started Apple designated as historic site

Steve Jobs' childhood home – the place where he and buddy Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers – has been designated a historic site by the Los Altos Historical Commission.
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So, Steve Jobs is hanging with JC in heaven, watching the iPhone announcement …

If this scene was from the movie 'Jobs', then maybe people would have actually gone to see it.
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Poor start for ‘JOBS’ as biopic fails to excite on opening weekend

With rave reviews few and far between, JOBS was always going to be up against it on its opening weekend. Reports suggest the Steve Jobs biopic took $6.7 million, falling short of the $8 to $9 million its distributor had reportedly been expecting.
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JOBS director Joshua Michael Stern on iPods, iPhones, and Ashton Kutcher’s geek cred

Making a biopic of an American icon who’s only just passed away, with zero access to his inner circle or the company he built, is no small feat, but Stern pulled it off.
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‘Jobs’ review

Ashton Kutcher's performance as Steve Jobs in the new biopic isn't as bad as Apple acolytes may have feared, but it's indicative of the film's overall failure to capture more than just a few threads of much more complex story.
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Steve Jobs bio arriving in paperback September 10, features new cover shot

It's been a long while coming, but publisher Simon & Schuster has finally decided to give the paperback edition of Walter Isaacson's 2011 Steve Jobs biography a release, complete with new cover shot and afterword.

Dear Apple: Can iCloud ‘just work’ already?

Steve Jobs promised iCloud would be the center of Apple users' digital lives. Two years later, are we any closer to a service that "just works" — and that can propel the next generation of great apps?

Atari’s Breakout celebrates 37th birthday on Google’s image search

Google celebrates the 37th birthday of Atari's classic game Breakout with a playable transformation of its image search feature. Read on for a look back at the series of events that led to its creation by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: His sense of design made “phenomenal products” possible

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has spoken about his relationship with the late Steve Jobs. During an interview with Charlie Rose for 60 Minutes, Gates commented on how Microsoft and Apple differed, and talked about one of his last meetings with Jobs.

New Apple headquarters will cost more than the new World Trade Center to construct

What happens when costs on your new corporate headquarters skyrocket so much that the project will cost more to construct that the new World Trade Center?
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iSteve: Funny or Die to debut Steve Jobs comedy biopic starring Justin Long

The Funny or Die website is about to release comedy biopic iSteve, described by its creator as a "very silly" look at the life of Steve Jobs. Writer-director Ryan Perez said it took him three days to pen, with most of the source material coming from Wikipedia.

Jailbreaking records: Envasi0n frees 7 million iOS devices in just four days

Apple continues to criticize the act of jailbreaking, but that isn't stopping the 7 million who just did it in the past four days
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First jOBS footage: Watch one minute of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

We've got the first footage of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs from the upcoming biopic jOBS, and it's not nearly as terrible as we'd feared.
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‘jOBS’ biopic starring Ashton Kutcher coming to theaters April 19

'jOBS', the much-anticipated Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher, will go nationwide on April 19, almost three months after this Friday's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Giant iPhone: Interactive monument to Steve Jobs unveiled in Russia

Monuments to Steve Jobs continue to pop up around the world more than a year after his death, a testament to the enduring popularity of the late Apple boss. The latest one – a giant replica of an iPhone – was unveiled in Russia this week.
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Does ‘Assembled in USA’ mean anything for Apple?

Some new iMacs say "Assembled in USA" rather than "Assembled in China." If it's a strategy shift and not a fluke, what might it mean for Apple?
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Opinion: Apple’s war on Google isn’t just business, it’s personal

Apple’s relentless pursuit of Google has less to do with patents and profits and more to do with personal betrayal – and for that reason, it won’t end until Apple’s pockets are empty.
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iThief: Burglar steals $60,000 worth of items from Steve Jobs’s house

The home of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was burglarized in mid-July, Palo Alto police revealed this week.
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Imagining an Apple iTV: What will it take to conquer the big screen?

The cutthroat market for TVs is unlike any Apple has ever succeeded in. Can Tim Cook and company turn the challenges into potential opportunities and walk away with another win?
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Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview coming to theaters (again)

Next week will see Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview hit theaters, despite the fact that it already did late last year, and wasn't ever really as "lost" as the film's trailer might want you to think.
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Steve Jobs rallies the Apple troops in newly discovered 1984 internal movie

Everyone remembers '1984,' the advertisement that launched Apple onto the world stage, but the same year saw the debut of '1944,' a nine minute in-house film where Steve Jobs told the Apple faithful that IBM users were zombies who needed to be cured. Unseen for more than 30 years, the promotional movie has now resurfaced online.
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Why Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne threw away his golden ticket

As one of three Apple co-founders, Ronald Wayne theoretically could have been worth more than $48 billion today. Instead, he left the company after a mere 12 days. In his own words, here's why.
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Digital Trends looks back on 2011

Check out the technology headlines that stuck with our editorial staff this year.
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Steve Jobs to receive posthumous Grammy

The Recording Academy has announced it will award a special "Trustees Award" Grammy to Steve Jobs for "revolutionizing" the music industry.

Tech firm honors Steve Jobs with bronze statue of late Apple boss

A tech firm in Hungary has unveiled a bronze statue of Steve Jobs. The boss of the firm, which Jobs had helped in its early days, called the former Apple boss "one of the greatest (personalities) in our era."
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Rebecca Black crowned top search term in Google Zeitgeist 2011

With countless numbers of search terms flowing through Google's search engine all the time, the company likes to compile the most popular search terms each year and publish the Google Zeitgeist.