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If you bring your iPhone to an Apple Genius Bar for a serious repair, you might leave with a loaner. Stores are reportedly performing fewer repairs on-site, and are now sending phones with serious problems away to a separate repair depot. Since Apple understands that their customers are now unable to cope without smartphones, they’re going to provide one to use while yours is in the phone hospital. 9to5Mac reports that the program isn’t mandatory, but that employees have been told that particularly time-consuming repairs take up employee time, and repairing them offsite would free up technicians to perform simpler repairs that take less time. Loaner phones are reserved for people whose devices have serious issues: if the phone won’t power on, for example, or if it won’t connect to iTunes or go past the Apple logo seen when the phone boots. The iPhone 6, 6 plus, 6S, and 6S Plus are the models eligible for the program. The catch is that those loaners are sort of the smartphone equivalen...

Wireless data has officially become a form of virtual currency thanks to a new AT&T program that rewards users with additional megabytes of data in exchange for doing stuff like taking surveys and shopping. Data Perks is the latest effort to convince customers to share more about their consumer behavior by rewarding them with something that doesn’t really cost AT&T very much. Users download the Perks app and then earn MB by “completing a featured offer, like taking a survey or completing a purchase.” Those extra megabytes aren’t applied directly to your monthly data allotment. Instead, they go into a separate Perks pool that users can pull from as needed (in 25MB increments). So if you’re nearing your limit and you’ve previously earned some data by “interacting” with “popular brands,” you can transfer some to your main account to use that month. It doesn’t look like they can go back, so once they’ve been transferred out of Perks, it’s use ’em or lose ’em. Additionally, you can...

If you can’t make it in person to see the neon lights of Broadway, there’s now another option for fans of the theater: a new subscription service is offering up on-demand, live-streaming theatrical productions. I know what you’re thinking — how will I be able to aggressively shush the annoying people talking throughout? Two veteran Broadway producers teamed up to start BroadwayHD, Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, who have worked in the past on partnering with networks to broadcast stage performances, reports Mashable . Technology has come along way, making it easier to provide live content on-demand to audiences anywhere with an internet connection. “The streaming thing, the whole convenience of ‘what I want when I want it,’ is just how people are conditioned to consume their entertainment nowadays,” Comley told Mashable. “It’s how the business is evolving. It’s art meets theater meets the Internet.” Customers can choose from a monthly subscription ($14.99), a yearly membership ($169...

Imagine you’ve been a victim of that old “woke up in a bathtub with my kidney gone” urban legend. As you stumble out of the hotel in urgent need of medical care, you come across a helpful doctor who will tend to your wounds… only to wake up in another tub with another missing organ. Replace “unauthorized donation of precious, life-sustaining organs” with “telemarketing fraud” and you’ve got the basis for a scam that took in nearly $3 million from people who had already been the victims of fraud. The operators of a Florida-based telemarketing scam called Consumer Collection Advocates have been officially barred from making any further attempts to trick scam victims into paying more money for a service that doesn’t do anything. The scam run by CCA, according to a complaint [ PDF ] filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, worked like this: Starting in 2011, CCA would cold-call consumers, claiming that the company ran a public service campaign that collects funds for victims of tel...