"Apple stores picketed in China as part of anti-U.S. demonstrations" Reuters 6:24 AM
"Apple's Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone: Supreme Court has not ruled about compelled unlocking of fingerprint-locked devices." Ars Technica 2:48 PM
"Apple lays the groundwork to kill online advertising" TechCrunch 3:52 PM
"Apple hyping this week's opening of first-ever Brooklyn retail store" AppleInsider 5:06 PM
"Don't Bury the Apple Watch: It's Not Dead Yet: The smartwatch market experiences its first year-over-year decline in shipments, but it's not a fair comparison." The Motley Fool 7/23
"Apple Ranks As World's Top Company In 'Perception Strength' For 2016: FutureBrand Index" Tech Times 7/23
"Hacker who targeted celebrity Apple and Google accounts sentenced six months in prison" AppleInsider 7/23
"Ten months after its release, iOS 9 is now installed on 86% of iOS devices" Neowin 7/23
"Apple weathers anti-U.S. demo in China, where patriotic protests snowball" Reuters 7/23
"Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world" PC & Tech Authority 9:27 PM
"Adwind RAT Affects Macs, but It's Almost Useless: Adwind author still has a lot of work ahead of him" Softpedia 4:27 PM
"Microsoft OneNote Ink Support Comes to the Mac" eWeek 7/23
"Stagefright-Like iOS, OS X Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution: Update Now" Tech Times 7/23
"Security bugs put Apple devices running iOS and Mac OS X at risk: But the latest versions released earlier this week fix the vulnerabilities." Engadget 7/22
"Stagefright-style vulnerability discovered in OS X and iOS, update for protection" 9to5Mac 7/22
"iOS, Mac vulnerabilities allow remote code execution through a single image" ZDNet 7/22
"Stagefright-like flaw opens up iPhones and Macs to iMessage hack: Cisco research shows executable code can be hidden easily in images" The Inquirer 7/22
"Hackers Could Steal Your iOS Or Mac Passwords Using Nothing But A Single Image" Huffington Post UK 7/22
"New Security Threat Targets OS X, iOS through Graphics" The Mac Observer 7/22
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"FileVault 2's Undying Guest User bug - the El Capitan edition." Gordon's Tech 1:55 PM
"Aperture in El Capitan: Not showing the workspace? (and other known issues)" Gordon's Tech 6:13 AM
"OS X 10.11 (El Capitan): New mouse-related bugs" Betalogue 7/23
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Can't delete a Mac app because it's still open? Here's the fix!" iMore 10:50 AM
"How-To: Use Final Cut Pro X's move event feature to archive events and save space [Video] 9to5Mac 7/22
"Use Creative Kit On Mac Photos, Forget About Photoshop" TeraTalks 7/22
"This Is Microsoft's Free Gift To Mac Users" Mac360 7/22
"How to erase a Mac that seems to lack erasure options: Older Macs don't have a Recovery partition, so what should you do?" Macworld 7/22
"Use Composition Mode in Scrivener to Write Without Distractions" Kirkville 7/22
"Typinator still makes life easier for Mac users" Apple World Today 7/22
Op/Ed
"What Exactly Is 'Compressed Memory'?" MJ Tsai 7/22
"Should You Upgrade to Apple's iOS 10 or macOS Sierra?" AppAdvice 7/22
"Three reasons to run your own Mac server: Running a server isn't as scary as you'd think. Here are three reasons why you should consider it, too." Macworld 7/22
Press Releases
"Avira launches Mac Antivirus Pro, which is optimized for channel resellers" Apple World Today 7/23
"DEVONthink 2.9 with ultra-fast, robust, and secure next-gen sync" prMac 7/22
"Apple Watch Sales Drop Dramatically Ahead Of Hardware Refresh: The smartwatch market contracted for the first time, thanks to a plunge in Apple Watch sales, according to a report from IDC. However, the report showed that Samsung, Lenovo, LG, and Garmin made gains." InformationWeek 7/22
"FBI Looks for Touch ID Workaround by 3D Printing Fingers" The Mac Observer 7/22
"Police Want to 3D Print a Dead Man's Fingers to Unlock His Phone" Gizmodo 7/22
"We'll Have to Wait Longer for That Apple Car Than We Thought" Gizmodo 7/22
"Edward Snowden designs an anti-snooping iPhone case: A bouquet of barbed wire wrapped around a brick" The Inquirer 7/22
Non-Apple News
"Verizon Finalizes $4.8 Billion Yahoo Deal: Verizon plans to announce deal early Monday, ending months of speculation" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:58 PM
"Verizon to announce $5 billion deal to buy Yahoo on Monday: source" Reuters 3:47 PM
"Neil Young's Pono Music will be offline for 'several weeks': The uncompressed music service is switching infrastructure providers after its partner got bought." Recode 3:14 PM
"6 incredibly rare Pokemon that are currently impossible to find in Pokemon Go" BGR 8:49 AM
"The new Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming to Netflix" The Verge 6:17 AM
"Verizon and Yahoo are set to announce an exclusive $5 billion deal: The terms are still unclear." Recode 7/23
"Someone already caught all 142 Pokemon in America" BGR 7/23
"Israel is opening an innovation center to showcase Israeli technology and inspire young entrepreneurs" TechCrunch 7/22
"Pokémon Go launches in Japan with McDonald's as first sponsor: The tie-up with McDonald's provides a new revenue stream for the game" Computerworld New Zealand 7/22
"Intel: A Case Study In Obsolescence" Seeking Alpha 7/22
"Spotify Is Now Letting Other Companies Check Out Your Tunes — And You" NPR 7/22
"The Talk Show: 'Special Bullying Venue', With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman" Daring Fireball 7/23
"Coming July 23: Gene Steinberg meets Josh Centers of TidBITS, and Bryan Chaffin, of The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7/22
"iPhone 7 And iPhone 7 Plus/Pro Release Date Leaks From Reliable Source" Tech Times 6:23 AM
"Latest iPhone 7 Rumor Suggests a New, Larger Model Is Possible" eWeek 7/23
"Apple rumored to launch 'iPhone 7' on week of Sept. 12" AppleInsider 7/23
"iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Launch Predicted to Be Week of September 12th" MacRumors 7/23
"Apple Reportedly Drops Samsung As iPhone 8 Chipmaker: Increased Competition?" Tech Times 7/23
"Apple Wins Two Design Patents for Apple Pencil Replacement Tips" Patently Apple 7/23
"iPhone 7 will be Waterproof, Include Lightning Headphone Dongle" The Mac Observer 7/22
"iPhone 7 Again Said to Ship With Lightning-to-3.5mm Headphone Dongle" MacRumors 7/22
"Lightning EarPods with the iPhone 7? Not happening says Deutsche Bank" TrustedReviews 7/22
"'Solid' forecast from Apple chipmaker Skyworks may bode well for 'iPhone 7' production" AppleInsider 7/22
"Apple to sell limited-edition Apple Watch bands w/ country flags for Olympics" 9to5Mac 7/22
"Apple's limited edition Olympic Apple Watch straps feature national flag motifs, only available in Rio" AppleInsider 7/22
"Here's how Apple makes those special edition Olympic Apple Watch straps" Apple Must 7/22
"Latest iPhone 7 leaks highlights new dual camera, video compares Rose Gold iPhone 7 to iPhone 6s" 9to5Mac 7/22
"Leak Claims To Show The Rumored Space Black iPhone 7 On Video" Redmond Pie 7/22
"iOS 10 release date, features and rumours: Apple releases iOS update to squash critical security bug" IT PRO 7/22
"Future Apple devices could theoretically sport vision-correcting displays" Apple World Today 7/22
"Apple Car Rumor Roundup: Here's Everything You Need To Know About 'Project Titan'/The Apple Car might not hit the streets until 2021" Digital Trends 7/22
"ConditionalWiFi lets you block certain apps from having Wi-Fi access" iDownload Blog 7/23
"Just Breathe. Apple's watchOS 3 beta Will Show You The Way." The Mac Observer 7/22
"Teach Your Toddlers That Learning Is Fun With Apple TV Apps" AppAdvice 7/22
"Quik and Splice: Edit your GoPro videos on your iPhone in a jiffy" Pocket-lint 7/22
How-To/Tutorial
"How to turn off the watermark in your Prisma photos" iMore 9:28 PM
"How-To: Fix iPhone videos that are mistakenly started in portrait mode [Video] 9to5Mac 4:19 PM
"How To Jailbreak iOS 9.3.3 On iPhone 6s, 6, 6s Plus, 6 Plus, 5s, iPad, More [Tutorial] Redmond Pie 10:37 AM
"How To Block A Number From Messaging You In iOS 10" AddictiveTips 7/23
"Here's how to quickly and simply update all your Apple devices" ZDNet 7/23
"How to speed up a slow iPhone: Tips to make older iPhones run faster | Speed up iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s" Macworld UK 7/23
"How To Markup Images In The Messages App In iOS 10" AddictiveTips 7/22
"How to Downgrade from iOS 10 Beta and Remove It Completely" Low End Mac 7/22
Tips
"Better Item Selection With iOS Pixelmator" MacSparky 7/23
"What iPhone 7 Needs More Than Anything" Mac360 7/22
"Guess how many smartwatches Apple sold last quarter?" Mobile Choice 7/22
"Why Edward Snowden created a device to tell if your iPhone's radios are spying: The device, created by Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang, is particularly aimed at journalists working overseas." Christian Science Monitor 7/22
"Spotify Is Now Letting Other Companies Check Out Your Tunes — And You – NPR" Kirkville 7/22
Non-Apple
"Mystery Science Theater 3000's Joel Hodgson on the undying appeal of mocking bad movies" The Verge 8:38 PM
"7 things Windows users can do that Mac users can only dream of: IF YOUR Mac-loving friends are lording their device's superiority over yours, it could be time to remind them of these certain Windows features." Express UK 6:23 AM
"Four ways smartphones are changing the world for the better" Android Authority 6:24 AM
"Robot Wars: How the deadly new House Robots were born" Telegraph 6:16 AM
"Here's What's Wrong with Classical Music on Streaming Services (Part Whatever)" Kirkville 7/23
"The quest to get a unique SNES CD-ROM prototype working again" Ars Technica 7/23
"Is China Stealing Jobs? It May Be Losing Them, Instead" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/23
"The real reason Netflix's subscriber growth is falling" BGR 7/23
"France's CNIL: Windows 10 collects too much information and isn't secure" Neowin 6:16 AM
"Salesforce would have bid 'much higher' for LinkedIn" Seeking Alpha 8:07 AM
"Microsoft's Earnings: A Cause For Concern" Seeking Alpha 9:27 PM
"Surface Book and Pro 4 get driver updates targeting camera and Windows Hello improvements" Neowin 1:51 PM
"Microsoft's Lumia 650 is now available for as little as $69.99 with no annual contract" Neowin 1:51 PM
"Original Xbox One drops to $249: It's the lowest official price yet for an Xbox One, if you don't mind the older design." Engadget 4:18 PM
"Microsoft cuts Xbox One price to $249" The Verge 5:09 PM
"Microsoft Cuts Xbox One Price to $249" Thurrott 5:11 PM
"Amazon is not abandoning Windows phones: 'Our team is working on the new app'" Neowin 5:05 PM
"Dell, HP Take Opposite Tacks Amid Roiling Tech Market: Dell relying on scale after EMC acquisition, while two halves of H-P bet that smaller is nimbler" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:28 AM
"Dell, HP Take Opposite Tacks Amid Roiling Tech Market" Nasdaq 6:28 AM
"The Break-up, starring Meg Whitman: ARN tests the theory of shrinking to success." ARN 6:28 AM
"HP announces 'Back to College' campaign for students" DNA 6:28 AM
"HP Elite x3 Unveiled: Specs, Price , Release Date & More" MobiPicker 6:28 AM
"Cisco report highlights digital opportunities for retail banking" Computer News Middle East 6:29 AM
"China's Huawei Plans to Ramp Up R&D as First-Half Sales Quicken" Bloomberg 9:21 PM
"One Step Closer to the Final Build of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update" SuperSite for Windows 7/23
"Microsoft Can't Shield User Data From Government, U.S. Says" Bloomberg 7/23
"Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 grab new camera drivers for Windows Hello and more" Windows Central 7/23
"AMD mulls a CPU+GPU super-chip in a server reboot: AMD wants to reinvigorate its server business and could get creative with its Zen CPUs" IDG News Service 7/23
"Silicon chip breakthrough promises genuinely smart devices: Next-gen devices enabled by integrating novel materials on silicon" The Inquirer 7/23
"Vast Influx of Pokémon Go Players Causes Security Threats to Proliferate" eWeek 7/23
"Apple investors braced for rotten results: The firm is struggling in the face of stiff competition, especially in Asia, ahead of its third-quarter numbers on July 26." News.Markets 7/22
Industry News
"S&P 500 gathers momentum as telecom rallies; Dow industrials waver: The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were seeing tepid gains late-morning Friday, but the Dow industrials were under pressure from losses in General Electric Co. and Boeing Co." MarketWatch 7/22
"S&P 500 Clinches Record High as Wall Street Shrugs Off Earnings: The S&P 500 manages to clinch a new record high on Friday even with a number of factors trying to pull it into the red."z" TheStreet 7/22
"Markets notch record highs one month after Brexit" FOXBusiness 7/22
"Can tech's Four Horsemen live up to the hype? Call it the Nasdaq's $1.8 trillion question. Can the new Four Horsemen of Tech deliver strong results and a solid outlook for the rest of the year?" CNNMoney 7/22
"Market Close Report: NASDAQ Composite index closes at 5,100.16 up 26.26 points" Nasdaq 7/22
"Stocks Rally For 4th Week; Dow's Apple, Caterpillar, McDonald's On Tap" Investor's Business Daily 7/22
"Stocks flat as week draws to close: U.S. stocks were flat in listless trading Friday a day after a pause ended the Dow's nine-day winning streak as investors continue to analyze incoming quarterly earnings reports and the release of the first post-'Brexit' economic data in Britain and Europe." USA Today 7/22
"U.S. Stocks Rise; S&P 500 Hits Record: Slow trading week; GE, Honeywell fall after earnings reports" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/22
"Asian markets drop as central bank stimulus falls short of expectations: Asian shares ended lower Friday as central banks poured cold water on traders' hopes for monetary easing." MarketWatch 7/22
"European stocks slip as earnings reports roll in: European stocks slipped Friday, as investors sifted through corporate earnings reports for reasons to cheer after the European Central Bank failed to deliver a boost the previous day." MarketWatch 7/22
"European stocks book weekly gains amid earnings: European stocks ended Friday little changed, but posted weekly gains, as investors sifted through corporate earnings reports for reasons to cheer after the European Central Bank failed to deliver a boost the previous day." MarketWatch 7/22
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