"Apple Steps Up Effort to Reach Classrooms: At 114 schools nationwide, the tech company is providing devices free as part of its education push" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:17 PM
"Manhattan District Attorney Wants To Put An End To Apple's Default Encryption" BuzzFeed 4:18 PM
"Apple's R&D bill set to top 10 billion in 2016, hinting at 'largest pivot yet'" ZDNet 7:34 AM
"What Apple's R&D Spending Could Tell Us About A Possible Apple Car" Jalopnik 9:41 AM
"Apple R&D Spending on Track to Top Record $10 Billion Amid Electric Vehicle Rumors" MacRumors 9:49 AM
"Why Apple's R&D spending surge may not result in one more thing" ZDNet 11:00 AM
"Apple's automotive 'pivot' and investing in the future" iMore 9:48 AM
"Apple vs. Google: enter the mobile machine learning race" Memeburn 7:10 AM
"FBI wasn't able to unlock iPhone, even with a 'fingerprint unlock warrant': A judge recently took the controversial step of letting the FBI force a woman to unlock an iPhone with her fingerprints. But it didn't work." CNNMoney 9:47 AM
"Apple: Nikkei Declares iPhone 7 Dead Before Arrival" Seeking Alpha 8:45 AM
"Apple Named World's Most Valuable Brand Despite Recent Slowdown" MacRumors 7:19 AM
"Not waving but paying: Apple Pay and train journeys boost contactless payments" ZDNet 10:01 AM
"Taylor Swift Dances Like No One's Watching in Newest Apple Music Ad" MacRumors 8:22 AM
"Taylor Swift and Apple are back at it again with the '00s rock" The Verge 8:37 AM
"Taylor Swift channels her inner Tom Cruise in the latest Apple Music TV ad" iMore 8:36 AM
"Check the back of your drawers – your old iPod could be worth big bucks to a collector" 9to5Mac 7:09 AM
"Larry Ellison is donating $200 million to Steve Jobs' former doctor for a new kind of cancer treatment institute" Business Insider 11:32 AM
"iPhone photography is cool, eyeball photography is cooler" CNNMoney 8:21 AM
"Sorry selfie lovers, the first-gen iPhone was not made for you" Mashable 7:19 AM
Non-Apple News
"Google open sources its English language parser, Parsey McParseface" ZDNet 4:28 PM
"Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news feed, documents show/Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization" The Guardian 1:14 PM
"Leaked documents show how Facebook editors were told to run Trending Topics" The Verge 1:14 PM
"Another Phone Bites the Pentalobe Bullet" iFixit 1:14 PM
"Google is delaying support for an Android rival to Apple's 3D Touch" Recode 9:48 AM
"This is what Doom looks like running on Nvidia's insane new graphics card" BGR 9:47 AM
"Ransomware: How high will the demands go?" ZDNet 8:36 AM
"Western Digital officially closes SanDisk acquisition" The Verge 8:21 AM
"Get Ready To Change The Way You Type With This Amazing Wearable Keyboard" Digital Trends 7:19 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Judy Chen and John Wilker Preview AltConf 2016 in San Francisco" MacVoices 4:14 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-05-12: Apple and the End of Music Download Sales" The Mac Observer 1:09 PM
"Apple patent filing hints at how HomeKit and your car could soon become smarter" 9to5Mac 7:29 PM
"Apple suppliers face bleak year as demand for iPhone 7 weak" Nikkei 9:56 AM
"Foxconn, Sharp and Other Apple Suppliers See Earnings Take Hits: As smartphone growth slows, electronics companies don't see another major growth driver on horizon" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:48 AM
"iPhone decline hits Apple suppliers, say they see no upside in immediate sight" 9to5Mac 9:48 AM
"iPhone 7 No Wireless Charging." M.I.C. Gadget 4:21 PM
"The Apple Inc. iPhone 7 Plus Will Come in Only 1 Flavor: Dual lenses for all iPhone 7 Plus buyers." The Motley Fool 9:47 AM
"These 3D models likely show us exactly what the iPhone 7 will look like" BGR 11:32 AM
"iOS 9 adoption is stalling amid slowing iPhone sales" iDownload Blog 4:21 PM
"2016 MacBook review: A laptop with a point of view" Six Colors 7:48 PM
"The iPad Pro is a better iPad than a laptop: The Logi Create is a solid laptop-style keyboard, but the iPad Pro isn't a laptop and shouldn't try to be one." Macworld 8:22 AM
"Will the 'early 2016' MacBook run Pro Apps as well as other Apple laptops?" Bare Feats 10:49 AM
"Gboard: My first thought, of course, was 'Sounds like a privacy disaster — Google will see and log everything people type with this keyboard.' But that doesn't seem to be the case. " Daring Fireball 8:50 PM
"Gen. Hayden to FBI: Stop Obsessing on Content and Focus on Metadata" The Mac Observer 7:11 PM
"Don't be fooled — the iPhone SE is not a budget smartphone" Tech Insider 4:25 PM
"How Apple's iPhone slump could cause more problems in the future" BGR 4:23 PM
"The old standards: Still playing those hated hits" Macworld 4:18 PM
"What headphones will Apple bundle w/ iPhone 7? Wireless AirPods? Lightning EarPods? Beats?" 9to5Mac 1:11 PM
"Apple: Is A Major iPhone Split Coming?" Seeking Alpha 11:58 AM
"Don't Count On Apple's Board To Act On Its Plummeting Share Price" Forbes 11:31 AM
"An iTunes bug, not Apple Music, may be to blame for disappearing music libraries" iMore 11:31 AM
"Walter Isaacson: Apple CEO Tim Cook great but ...'What may be missing is the unbelievable visionary like a Steve Jobs,' says the author of the best-selling biography of the co-founder of the tech giant." CNBC Videos 10:05 AM
"Should Apple Buy Tesla And Elon Musk? Ex-CEO John Sculley Weighs In" TheStreet 10:04 AM
"The hottest iPhone you've ever seen will never exist" BGR 9:48 AM
"Kayak founder launches Lola, an iOS travel app backed by $20 million" VentureBeat 10:36 AM
"Bots and Crawlers May Represent up to 50% of Web Traffic" ["Other key findings include: Apple and Samsung devices are dominating mobile web browsing; iPhone 6 grew at the expense of iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 models"] Business Wire 8:48 AM
"HEAT Software Provides Support for Apple's New Education Technology" Business Wire 8:48 AM
"Google launches feature-packed 'Gboard' keyboard for iPhone w/ search, GIFs, gesture typing, more" 9to5Mac 8:37 AM
"Google's Gboard lets you launch a search right from your iPhone keyboard" iMore 8:37 AM
"Google launches Gboard, an iOS keyboard that lets you search without a browser" TechCrunch 8:37 AM
"Roger app puts Amazon Alexa in your phone for free" Engadget 8:18 AM
"Youtube In-App Messaging Coming To iOS And Android" Digital Trends 7:19 AM
"Google adds streamlined features to Translate app for Android and iOS" V3 7:08 AM
"Kannada Keyboard for iPad and iPhone 1.0" prMac 1:11 PM
"Pointgenie 1.0 released for iOS - Innovative Social Networking App" prMac 7:07 AM
"Letter Soup Cafe is the Freshest and Tastiest New Word Game for iOS" prMac 7:07 AM
"Facebook, Microsoft Give Clean Energy a Boost With Buyer's Group" Bloomberg 1:46 PM
"Microsoft Azure Expands Into Canada, South Korea: Microsoft is investing $15 billion to establish the Azure Cloud as a worldwide presence. Canada and South Korea are part of its expansion roadmap." InformationWeek 4:43 PM
"Windows 10 will finally stop sharing Wi-Fi passwords after public backlash" BGR 6:31 AM
"Microsoft Windows zero-day exposes companies to credit card data theft" ZDNet 7:05 AM
"Bing bans tech support ads—because they're mostly scams" Ars Technica 9:22 PM
"Dell and Aerohive launch co-branded networking solution" ChannelLife 6:53 AM
"Partners reveal Michael Dell's mid-July target for EMC deal close" Channelnomics 6:53 AM
"HP Unit to Invest in IoT, Immersive Computing, 3D Printing Startups" eWeek 7:08 AM
"The biggest problem for the Oracle v. Google retrial: Judge Alsup's reality distortion field" Foss Patents 6:48 AM
"Oracle, Google clash in court with all-star witness list" KHOU (Houston, Texas) 6:54 AM
"Oracle's Larry Ellison donates $200 million to fund cancer research center" Neowin 6:42 AM
"New Google Chromebook UK release date, price, features and specification: HP and Google announce the new Chromebook 13 at half the price of Chromebook Pixel/HP has announced a brand-new 13in Chromebook with high end looks and a pocket friendly price. We tell you everything you need to know, including the new Google Chromebook UK release date, price, features and specifications." PC Advisor 7:02 AM
"Upgrades And Downgrades For Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ)" Risers & Fallers 6:54 AM
"3 Things That Will Save Intel's Future" Seeking Alpha 11:54 AM
"Intel sees mobile future in atomic research" Computerworld 7:00 AM
"After smashing two Atoms, Intel sees mobile future in atomic research" Network World 7:00 AM
"Intel: 5G End-To-End Worldwide, Seamlessly" Seeking Alpha 10:16 AM
"AMD Radeon Software 16.5.2 Beta launched in time for DOOM" Hexus 7:01 AM
"Increased Earnings Estimates Seen for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): Can It Move Higher?" Zacks 10:14 AM
"IBM helped develop a 'magic bullet' that might kill Zika, Ebola and other viruses" BGR 6:58 PM
"IBM developed a 'magic bullet' to combat viral infections: A new chemical could eventually be used to fight off everything from Zika to the flu." Engadget 7:00 PM
"IBM Researcher: Fears Over Artificial Intelligence Are 'Overblown'" Time 7:07 AM
"IBM Updates Watson Analytics With New UI, Features" eWeek 7:19 PM
"Cisco urges organisations to secure DNS" MIS Asia 7:01 AM
"Larry Ellison Gives $200 Million to USC for Cancer Research" Bloomberg 10:15 AM
"Lenovo Australia launches PC-as-a-Service" ZDNet 6:38 AM
"Businesses Lack Confidence in Data Anayltics" eWeek 7:08 AM
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