"Apple's detestable moral hypocrisy" ["As a conservative, I detest Trump, his pomp, and his works. ... But if there's anything that could make me want to support Trump, it's this new breathtaking display of hypocrisy from Apple. Apple is refusing to lend its support to a movement based on its own ideological and moral standards. But remember, it was only a few months ago that Apple boycotted North Carolina after the state made it legal to do just that: refuse service to customers on ideological or moral grounds. Double standards, anyone?"] The Week 8:09 AM
"Why Apple can take a bigger stand against Trump than its rivals" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:20 AM
"Apple Is Now the Anti-Trump Computing Platform: Apple pulled out of the GOP convention because it can't stand Donald Trump. Will Trump supporters retaliate?" PC Magazine 8:24 AM
"Apple, Facebook, and Corporate Political Speech" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 8:24 AM
"The Apple TV Just Got Wildly Better: But it's still missing one crucial element" Time 9:44 AM
"Apple needs to apply afresh for opening retail stores: Official" The Economic Times 10:18 AM
"The Jewel in the Crown: Apple Now Poised to Open Stores in India" TheStreet 10:17 AM
"Apple Korea under probe over unfair contracts with carriers" The Korea Times 10:19 AM
"Supreme Court Ruling Supports Apple's Long-Running Fight Against Patent Trolls" MacRumors 7:11 AM
"Supreme Court ruling makes life harder for patent trolls, easier for Apple" 9to5Mac 7:12 AM
"Apple Wins Case Over 'Error 53' Wiped iPhones" Fortune 4:34 PM
"Read Ebooks? You May Be About To Receive A Payment From Apple" Digital Trends 7:27 AM
"Your Apple iBooks Price-Fixing Credit Is on Its Way: The money will be sent directly to your Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and/or Apple account." PC Magazine 9:36 AM
"Stop videos from autoplaying in your browser: When you go to a website to read an article, you want to read the article, not listen to a video." PCWorld 7:19 AM
"How to forward delete text on your Mac" iDownload Blog 7:32 AM
"How to force quit an app or program on Mac" iMore 7:19 AM
"What is Optimized Storage on macOS?" iMore 9:08 AM
"The Free Mac PDF Reader And Note-Taker" Mac360 8:12 AM
"The Free Way To Get Custom Mac Folders" McSolo 8:12 AM
Op/Ed
"What We've Learned About Apple's New File System, APFS, in the Last Week" The Mac Observer 3:39 PM
"Apple Pay's Mac move: Less friction? No, but slightly less fraud" Computerworld 9:36 AM
"WWDC/Apple discussion continues on Apple's new APFS file system (and how that relates to networking); Mac Pro issues; security changes; SSD longevity; software quality issues (e.g. DNS), etc." MacInTouch 8:30 AM
Press Releases
"Reason 9 Shipping, Adds Pitch Editor and New MIDI Processing" The Mac Observer 9:11 PM
"Adobe Creative Cloud Innovations Take Creativity From Blank Page to Brilliant" Adobe 8:13 AM
"SecuritySpy 4.0: Major Update to Mac OS X CCTV Software" prMac 7:27 AM
"Docker unveils betas for Mac, Windows, Azure and AWS with built-in orchestration" V3 7:19 AM
"UnDistracted for macOS - hides all icons and Dock from the screen in one click, helps to focus and work efficiently." UnDistracted 7:03 AM
"Apple Pay gains support from 44 new US banks and credit unions" AppleInsider 9:10 PM
"Apple Pay adds over 40 new banks and credit unions in the United States" 9to5Mac 9:10 PM
"Low-Cost iPhone SE Cannibalizing Sales Of Pricier Apple Handsets" Investor's Business Daily 11:46 AM
"Apple Stock Rises, iPhone SE Sales Exceeding Expectations" TheStreet 11:46 AM
"Apple Alums Dream Up a $500 Backup Camera for Your Clunker" Wired 7:27 AM
"A huge team of Apple veterans is now making smart accessories for your car" The Verge 7:11 AM
"Browser-based Apple Pay predicted to chip away at PayPal's dominance with both consumers & merchants" AppleInsider 9:14 AM
"New rules may put up barriers to games on Apple's App Store in China" AppleInsider 9:59 AM
"iPhone app for rescuing lost migrants at sea removed amid claims it doesn't work" Telegraph 8:25 AM
"End of the road for MacNN: 21 years of changes for Apple, and for us" MacNN 8:19 AM
"Won for The Land: How LeBron bore the weight of a city" ["And so LeBron gathered everyone in the Cavaliers locker room before Game 3 and played a portion of Steve Jobs' commencement address to Stanford University in 2005."] ESPN 3:43 PM
"LeBron James made Cavs watch this Steve Jobs speech before Game 3" Tech Insider 3:44 PM
"Today in Apple history: iOS 4 makes its official debut" Cult of Mac 8:36 AM
"Picture Gallery: Vectorworks Design Summit 2016 with Notes" Architosh 11:57 AM
Non-Apple News
"Adobe Earnings Rise, but Yearly Outlook Remains Below Expectations: For the latest quarter, Adobe posted earnings of $244.1 million, up from $147.5 million a year earlier" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:33 PM
"FCC's cable box plan is 'too complicated,' says Democrat who voted for it" Ars Technica 11:30 AM
"Google Offers Computer Science Students Free Access to Cloud Platform" eWeek 9:11 PM
"How Google Is Fixing a Fatal Security Flaw" Gizmodo 9:42 AM
"Airbus (the company, not a plane) hijacked by patent extremists, joined trolls' lobbying entity named IP Europe" Foss Patents 8:29 AM
"Quantum computing: To boldly go where Einstein feared to tread/To build a quantum computer — and to understand what it's good for — scientists will have to stretch their minds farther than Einstein could stretch his." Recode 7:19 AM
"Apple Opens Up iPhone Code in What Could Be Savvy Strategy or Security Screwup" MIT Technology Review 6:42 PM
"iOS 10 Beta Has An Unencrypted Kernel" UberGizmo 8:58 PM
"Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone: Tech giant plans to break with tradition of overhauling its design every two years; headphone plug likely to disappear" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:26 PM
"WSJ: New iPhone will look like the 6S, but big changes are coming in 2017" The Verge 4:28 PM
"WSJ Confirms iPhone Redesign Slated For 2017 And Not 2016" Redmond Pie 9:01 PM
"Massive iPhone 7 leaks reveal OLED screen, dual camera, 256GB, Lightning adapter and more" Pocket-lint 7:02 AM
"iPhone 7 Will Look Familiar, iPhone 8 to Offer Major Design Overhaul" OS X Daily 2:03 PM
"iPhone 7 may ship with 3.5mm EarPods and Lightning adapter" iDownload Blog 7:32 AM
"iPhone 7 To Ship With Lightning-To-3.5mm Audio Adapter And Standard EarPods [Rumor] Redmond Pie 9:36 AM
"Looks like Apple is finally preparing to call time on the non-Retina MacBook Pro w/optical" 9to5Mac 7:12 AM
"Non-Retina MacBook Pro To Go Way Of The Wall, Report Claims" RazorianFly 7:13 AM
"Apple Puts Non-Retina MacBook Pro on Death Row" The Mac Observer 9:34 AM
"Apple's Powerful Feature Hiding Inside iOS 10" Forbes 7:11 AM
"Apple releases iOS 9.3.3 beta 3 + tvOS 9.2.2 beta 3 to developers & public beta testers" 9to5Mac 12:27 PM
"Apple Granted Two Apple Store Patents Covering Security Display Stands & Smart Packaging" Patently Apple 8:24 AM
"Patent Report: gesture entry techniques, on-demand Video, interactive packaging" Apple World Today 8:26 AM
"Apple Granted 33 Patents Today Covering the Apple TV System, Gesture Passwords & Mystery iPad" Patently Apple 8:25 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"PSA: Make sure your Airport Utility app is set to check for updates" 9to5Mac 9:46 AM
"Apple keeps details of patched AirPort router vulnerability under wraps" ZDNet 8:25 AM
"Apple fixes serious flaw in AirPort wireless routers: The flaw could allow hackers to execute malicious code on affected devices" IDG News Service 8:21 AM
"AirPort owners: Apple's patched a mystery vuln" The Register 7:27 AM
"Apple MacBook vs. HP Spectre: How Thin Does Your Laptop Really Need to Be? As laptops go on extreme diets, you need to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice in ports, power and battery life" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:39 PM
"Teardown: Apple MacBook gets a new battery" EDN Network 8:45 PM
"Which iPhone lens is best? The Zeiss ExoLens looks like a winner." Mashable 7:13 AM
"Happy 20th Birthday to The Icon Factory!" The Mac Observer 8:10 PM
"Apple TV universal search integrates content from A&E, History, Food Network, more" AppleInsider 4:32 PM
"Telemundo Now Arrives on the Apple TV" AppAdvice 2:39 PM
"Yahoo launches new Radar smart travel guide & assistant app for iPhone" 9to5Mac 2:03 PM
"Enpass for iPhone and iPad gets redesigned sidebar, watchOS 2 support" iMore 2:03 PM
"Microsoft launches Flow and SharePoint apps for iPhone; updates OneDrive" iMore 11:31 AM
"Sonos adds Lock Screen Controls to iOS App" The Mac Observer 9:34 AM
"Apple SIM Now Available in 140+ Countries in Partnership With GigSky" MacRumors 9:08 AM
"UE Speakers Add Siri, Google Voice" PC Magazine 9:08 AM
"New Streaming App Dedicated to Helping People Transform Their Health: The founders of Food Matters, Hungry For Change and FMTV have just launched a brand new App for iOS and debuted the service on Apple TV." PRNewswire 8:39 AM
"NuEyes and Mac-Fusion Announce an Exclusive Partnership to Bring NuEyes to People With Vision Loss" PRNewswire 8:39 AM
"Twitter Unveils Twitter Engage, New App to Help Creators Grow and Retain Audience" PRNewswire 8:38 AM
"Blinkist launches a magazine that's the cliff's notes for picking your cliff's notes" The Next Web 8:36 AM
"Apple adds coding, robotics sessions to its Summer Camp lineup" CNET 12:27 PM
"Got kids aged 8-12? Apple Camp enrollment opens today, sessions on coding, movie-making, story-telling" 9to5Mac 8:22 AM
"SanDisk's Dual USB Drive is a great accessory for a MacBook" Apple World Today 8:11 AM
"Griffin's BreakSafe cable is a must-have item for MacBook owners" Apple World Today 8:11 AM
"Turntable for Mac Updated, World First 'Real Album Experience'" Appothecary 7:30 AM
"These stylish Star Wars iPhone cases are made with gold-plated circuit lines" CNET 7:12 AM
"Google prompt: You can now just tap 'yes' or 'no' on iOS, Android to approve Gmail sign-in" ZDNet 7:11 AM
"Colorize your Keyboard with Neon LED Keyboard on iOS" prMac 7:18 AM
"Scramble for iPhone Lets You Communicate With Secret Message Puzzles" prMac 7:10 AM
"Intel Fights Record $1.2 Billion Antitrust Fine at Top EU Court" Bloomberg 2:22 PM
"Microsoft: Nearly one in three Azure virtual machines now are running Linux" ZDNet 2:25 PM
"Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Wallet with Tap to Pay to Windows Insiders" Thurrott 4:18 PM
"Microsoft says using Edge instead of Firefox and Chrome enables your battery last longer" Social Barrel 7:19 AM
"Microsoft Edge is a system hog and cannot be called 'power efficient'/Column: I take exception to Microsoft's attempts to prove browser's worth with 'benchmark tests'" The Inquirer 7:20 AM
"Margins - The Crack In Microsoft's Armor?" Seeking Alpha 12:33 PM
"Microsoft updates Windows 10 Maps app, including migration tool for users of HERE apps" Neowin 12:37 PM
"Microsoft expands its support for Docker containers" TechCrunch 4:26 PM
"Intel Shipping Xeon Phi 'Knights Landing' Processors" eWeek 7:01 AM
"Dell Selling Software Unit Ahead of Its $67B EMC Deal" eWeek 4:21 PM
"Dell Will Be Selling Two Software Groups To Elliott Management and Francisco Partners" University Herald 7:50 AM
"Dell sells off software division ahead of EMC acquisition" ITProPortal 7:51 AM
"Dell sells software business for $2bn to fund EMC deal" Business Cloud News 7:51 AM
"Dell launches new HPC solutions, announces partnerships" ITProPortal 7:51 AM
"Dell targets enterprises of all sizes with supercomputers built with cloud" Computer Business Review 7:51 AM
"Dell Security demonstrates channel commitment with partner event" PC Retail 7:53 AM
"HP higher after hours on boosted guidance" Seeking Alpha 5:11 PM
"HPE Launches New HPC Platform, Simplifies Deployment" eWeek 6:34 PM
"HP warns users to check laptop battery as it may be on fire: It's flamin' happened again" The Inquirer 2:21 PM
"HPE's HPC systems get an Intel Xeon Phi processor upgrade: Firm also launches HPE Core HPC Software Stack" The Inquirer 7:19 AM
"IBM Patented a Google Glass-Like Eyewear With 'Night Vision'" TG Daily 7:18 AM
"VMware Pushes Forward With Its Container Efforts" eWeek 6:57 AM
"Samsung SDI, LG Chem Face Setback in China on Electric-Car Batteries: South Korea's two biggest electric-vehicle battery makers said Tuesday their applications for certification were rejected" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:24 AM
"12 Important Facts About the Future of Networking" Channel Insider 7:56 AM
"China builds world's fastest supercomputer: China's massive system runs real applications and is 'not just a stunt machine,' says US researcher, all with domestic chips" TechCentral.ie 7:56 AM
"World's Fastest Supercomputer Is China's Sunway TaihuLight At A Brisk 93 Petaflops" HotHardware 5:09 PM
"How Behavioral Biometrics Is Innovating IT Security" eWeek 12:36 PM
"Apple: A Game of 'The Price is Right'/Apple is being seen in a positive light by investors after a breathtaking WWDC display and Apple Pay foray" Bidness Etc 11:31 AM
"Apple's 'SE' Doing Better Than Expected, Says Nomura; December Brings Relief" Barron's 10:18 AM
Industry News
"'Brexit' Worries Fuel Choppy Wall Street Trading: The uncertainty over a potential 'Brexit' fuels a choppy session on Wall Street Tuesday." TheStreet 5:12 PM
"S&P, Dow Hold Gains Even as Yellen Paints Bleak Picture" FOXBusiness 5:14 PM
"Market Close Report: NASDAQ Composite index closes at 4,843.76 up 6.55 points" Nasdaq 5:15 PM
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