Apple Bricks iPhones On Purpose, Google Tackles ISIS With Ads… [Tech News Digest]

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Error 53 can kill your iPhone, Google uses ads to deter terrorism, Yahoo Games is no more, The Frinkiac is a search engine for The Simpsons, and the robot golfer who scored a hole-in-one. Apple Kills Repaired iPhones Thousands of Apple fans have had their iPhones bricked when upgrading to iOS 9. And, according to The Guardian, it’s all to do with Error 53, which renders the phone unusable if anyone other than Apple itself has tampered with it. This includes people who have had their iPhones repaired somewhere other than an Apple Store. Error 53 has been a known…

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