It may have been a hearing on privacy, but that didn't prevent Apple and its CEO Steve Jobs from getting a very public flogging today on Capitol Hill. Al Franken is apparently immune to Jobs' reality distortion field.

Huzzah! Apple fixed the iPhone's location tracking, even as it insists the iPhone has no location tracking. An iPhone software update reduces the log of your movements from "indefinite" to "one week" and keeps it off your computer. [Mashable]

To refute intense criticism that iPhones track their owners' every move, Apple today announced that "the iPhone is not logging your location," just what Wi-Fi stations you're near. Too bad Apple already admitted there's no difference.

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has stepped up his pressure on Apple CEO Steve Jobs, announcing on Monday that he will hold hearings on the recent revelation that Apple iPhones and iPads are secretly tracking and storing their users' locations.

Everything Charlie Sheen touches turns to shit. After ambling about the country with his live show, Anyone Who Pays Money for This Gets What They Deserve, he has now launched an iPhone app.

Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Ed Markey sent Apple letters asking why the iPhone continuously records owners' movements and stores them indefinitely. Maybe Apple, silent on the issue, will tell them why the iPhone has this creepy feature. [Ars Technica]

When it comes to technology today, there is barely any distance between outrageous privacy violation and cool new feature. When news broke yesterday that Apple has been secretly spying on iPhone users, many people immediately broadcasted the illicit data to everyone.

Here are two things you could do with your iPhone last week that you might not be able to next week: learn about how to fake-"cure" yourself from being gay, and avoid DUI checkpoints. It's outrage time in the App store!

A few days ago, the Internet freaked out over a viral video of a guy who hacked Times Square video screens with a live feed from an iPhone. It was a fake viral marketing stunt for the new movie Limitless. But now a guy has done it for real—sort of. Adi Isakovic, a 27-year-old entrepreneur, tested out his new product, TubeMote, and used it to broadcast a video of his dog on a Times Square Jumbotron.

We're all constantly evolving. Watch your own process with the help of the Everyday App. Set reminders, snap a daily photo and watch the progression. Should you need any more convincing, watch this creative video.

This video of a guy hacking into various video screens in the Times Square area with an iPhone would be pretty damn awesome if it weren't probably fake. Also, if you're going to go the trouble of hacking into the screens, why put up a boring video of yourself when there is a lot more exciting footage out there just waiting to be foisted on unsuspecting audiences?

Victoria Beckham's favorite hobby: Staring at her husband when he is naked. Hey, if you were married to David Beckham, you'd do it too. And maybe even if you weren't. [Images via Pacific Coast News]

Meet Maru. No, not the famous cat—Maru the puppy (a Shiba Inu, actually). In this short, sweet, and inarguably adorable video, Maru watches a video of another dog on his owner's iPhone. It confuses him—quite a bit.

Tonight, Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with a segment about today's Verizon iPhone announcement. He's excited about having Apple's golden product on a different network! Why? Well, because he may actually be able to make calls now. Watch inside.

The author of "Herb Converter" miraculously got his weed-dealing calculator past Apple censors and into the iPhone App Store. But that just means more problems, since he must now deal with confused and severely bummed out users.

A bug in the iPhone made one-time alarms not go off today. Judging from Twitter, this caused many people to miss their True Grit matinees and show up late for work. Bad, Apple. Here's how you can fix this.

Inspired by a story about STD detection on your iPhone, last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert introduced the iThrone, a device that allows you to check out a new sexual partner before it's too late. It's genius.

The Yes Men, the group of clever activist/designer pranksters, struck again this week—or tried to. Their target this time? Apple.

A scrappy Chinese-speaking teenager sold $130,000 in parts for the white iPhone 4. Now he's being slapped with legal threats. Won't anyone defend Fei Lam's right to exploit fashion-obsessed gadgeteers?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone offered "freedom from programs that steal your private data." But buzzy new social network Path apparently pillages iPhone address books. It's just one example of tech's latest "scam," writes longtime developer Dave Winer.