The iPhone 6s is Apple’s best “S” update in iPhone history, featuring both significantly hardware upgrades and new software improvements. But Apple hasn’t shared all the details about the iPhone 6s’ internal components. As was the case with previous releases, the company doesn’t talk about processor speed – other than to say it’s 70% faster than the A8 – RAM, or battery size. The RAM and battery capacity mysteries have been solved already, and thanks to official documentation seen on a website belonging to China’s TENAA regulatory agency, pressing A9-related questions can also now be answered.

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Apple’s just-released iOS 9 update is a big step forward for the company’s mobile platform. The software is packed full of new features and refinements, adding tremendous value to the user experience on Apple’s supported iPhone and iPad devices. We have now spent several days covering the best new features in iOS 9, and we’ve also highlighted some of iOS 9’s great hidden features, which you might not come across unless you check out our coverage.

Of course, each new iOS update also brings with it various problems, glitches, and a whole lot of hate.

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Buying iPhone accessories can be tricky. A lot of times you have to make the choice between high-quality Apple accessories that are painfully expensive, or third-party accessories that are cheaper, but can also be poorly made. When it comes to car chargers, Apple makes the decision simple by not even making its own options. Instead, you have no choice but to buy a third-party charger — but you absolutely must make sure that it’s Apple certified.

For a limited time, Amazon is selling its AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning Car Charger for iPhone, iPad and iPod for just $11.99 shipped.

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Go ahead and take a wild guess as to how many lines of code make up the entirety of Google’s services. We’re talking everything here — search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs etc. Now you might want to aim high because there’s a good chance that even your best guess will come in far below the actual figure — a whopping 2 billion lines of code.

Now how about taking a stab at how large Google’s entire codebase is? How bout trying 86 terabytes on for size.

These interesting tidbits come courtesy of Google engineering manager Rachel Potvin who disclosed it at the @Scale engineering conference earlier this week. Not surprisingly, the topic of Potvin’s talk centered on the benefits and challenges associated with storing and managing a gargantuan codebase. And ensuring that everything remains safe, Google’s mammoth code repository is stored and updated at 10 Google data centers located across the globe.

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Apple just released iOS 9, an operating system that’s supposed to introduce many performance improvements over last year’s iOS 8, including better storage management and battery life, and improved security. On top of that, there are many interesting new features, including plenty of new tricks that are hidden in iOS 9. While these are all reasons to be excited about upgrading to iOS 9 – and staying there – some people will find at least two reasons to roll back to the latest stable version of “old” iOS (that’s iOS 8.4.1 right now). The good news is that you can do it fairly easily, as Apple is going to support iOS 8 and iOS 9 for the time being.

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No, it most likely didn’t.

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Google is going to announce its 2015 Nexus smartphones during a special media event set for September 29th, and while the new Nexus 5X and Nexus 6 have been thoroughly detailed in a slew of interesting leaks, it looks like Google might have some surprises prepared for the keynote.

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A Jeopardy! contestant this week hilariously tricked Alex Trebek into saying the name ‘Turd Ferguson’ on the air during the show’s Final Jeopardy round.

Here’s how it all went down.

Going into the final round, a contestant named Talia was in third place with just $600 to her name. The other contestants, meanwhile, were sitting pretty with respective winnings of $12,600 and $7,600. With no real chance to emerge victorious, Talia decided she might as well have a little bit of fun instead of actually trying to answer the question.

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts acknowledged this week that you can’t keep raising prices forever… but that doesn’t mean prices can’t go up next month! Ars Technica flags a report from The Hollywood Reporter that reveals Roberts told a Goldman Sachs telecom conference this week that “you can’t keep raising the price [of cable bundles] forever” because “these things have a way of correcting and balancing out before something draconian happens.” However, Ars notes that Comcast is set to unleash a major round of price hikes in several markets across the U.S., including in Oregon and New Mexico.

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With a few weeks to go before the Aaron Sorkin penned Steve Jobs biopic hits the big screen, Universal Pictures earlier today released the second official trailer for the highly anticipated film about the Apple co-founder.

Notably, the film, naturally titled Steve Jobs, won’t be a traditional cradle to grave type of biopic. Instead, Sorkin, who knows a thing or two about storytelling, has crafted a film that will mostly focus on three of Jobs’ biggest product announcements, including the original Macintosh. Based on what we’ve seen so far in the two released trailers, the film will also touch a bit on how Jobs’ personal life helped shape his professional life and vice versa.

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