"Apple Is Fighting Laws That Make It Easier To Repair Your iPhone: A 'right to repair' proposal being considered in Nebraska is just the latest to face strong opposition from Apple and other tech companies." BuzzFeed 8:30 PM
"Apple lobbies against 'right to repair' proposal in Nebraska" AppleInsider 8:30 PM
"Apple's Siri learns Shanghainese as voice assistants race to cover languages" Reuters 7:02 AM
"Apple speech team head explains how Siri learns a new language" 9to5Mac 7:15 AM
"A prominent UBS analyst explains why he thinks Apple is a monopoly" Business Insider 11:14 AM
"Apple an 'antifragile monopoly,' more secure than critics believe, analyst claims" AppleInsider 4:53 PM
"Swift is already one of the top 10 programming languages in the world" Cult of Mac 2:35 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"User interface discussion examines the sticky problem of Save behavior and Apple's changes to that fundamental feature after decades of consistency, following the iPhone's arrival." MacInTouch 7:52 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Bumpr Is a Web Browser and Email Switcher for Mac" Subtraction 7:02 AM
"Bumpr: Going beyond the default browser" Six Colors 2:38 PM
"How the macOS Dashboard can actually help you be productive" Computerworld 10:07 AM
"How To Store Or Remove Your Apple ID Password For Free Purchases [macOS] AddictiveTips 12:23 PM
"macOS: Create Apple Notes Subfolders With Ease" The Mac Observer 6:18 PM
"Better Web Searching with Snapback and Tabs" MacMost 10:07 AM
"How to Get the Size of a Directory from Command Line" OS X Daily 1:52 PM
"How to open docs and downloads from stacks" Apple World Today 7:14 AM
Op/Ed
"Accessibility features in macOS and iOS that everyone should try: The Accessibility menus hold lots of little tweaks to make your Mac, iPhone, and iPad easier to use." Macworld 7:14 AM
Press Releases
"Chrome 57 rolling out now to Mac, Windows, and Linux" 9to5Google 3:58 PM
"Apple engineers working to address remaining CIA exploits, but two factors hampering efforts" 9to5Mac 7:50 AM
"WikiLeaks: Apple, Google, others will get CIA hacks first" CNET 1:42 PM
"Foxconn finds itself caught between two giants: Chairman Terry Gou 'won't choose' between US, China, but his investments lean east" Nikkei 10:21 AM
"U.S. iPhone factory idea thrown into doubt by remarks made by Foxconn chairman" 9to5Mac 10:20 AM
"Apple's top manufacturer asks the government to open up its wallet if Trump wants more US factories" Business Insider 1:51 PM
"MBLM Announces That Two-Thirds of Industries Studied in its Report Are More Successful in Creating and Maintaining Intimacy with Men than Women: Brand Intimacy 2017 Report Reveals Disney Ranks Number One with Women, with Apple and Amazon Coming in Second and Third" PRWeb 12:18 PM
"MBLM 2017 Brand Itimacy" [For Men & Women, Apple #1] MBLM 12:15 PM
"8 students, 7 iPhones, 0 interest in the iPhone X (Video)" Apple 3.0 6:59 AM
"Apple Retail Ends Genius Training in Cupertino, Moves to In-Store Web Seminars" MacRumors 10:20 AM
"Today in Apple history: eWorld closes its virtual doors" Cult of Mac 8:19 AM
"Cassandra: Abdication of Responsibility -The Overuse of Presentation Software in Teaching" eXtensions 7:39 AM
"Apple's not missing much by not having a Siri speaker" Macworld 7:01 AM
"Apple and Generation Z" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 7:01 AM
Non-Apple
"Breaking: Politicians still have no idea what net neutrality is or how it works" BGR 8:54 PM
"Mingis on Tech: Videoconferencing arrives, and the reality behind 'digital transformation'/Videoconferencing can help firms save money, do more, and better integrate their plans. So can digital transformation, if it's done right." Computerworld 12:12 PM
"Comey's 'No Absolute Privacy in America' Statement is a Threat to Encryption" The Mac Observer 10:31 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Conan punks Republican health plan with fake ad for Apple Healthcare" The Next Web 7:17 AM
"Classic Reload - 'Plants vs. Zombies'" Touch Arcade 7:55 PM
"Gmail now supports native, business focused add-ons, more coming soon" 9to5Mac 2:38 PM
"Google Hangouts Evolves to Better Compete with Slack" MacStories 2:35 PM
"Plex Cloud exits beta, lets you instantly create a media server using Dropbox and other storage services" 9to5Mac 12:12 PM
"Shout for Chrome and iOS is like the lovechild of Goodreads and Pocket" The Next Web 11:28 AM
"Louis Vuitton made an iPhone case that costs seven iPhones" The Verge 10:52 AM
"Offline English to French Translator Dictionary 1.5 for iOS" prMac 6:58 PM
"Join the craze with Pizza Milk - A new dunkingly good iOS game" prMac 10:20 AM
"Google Photos picks up auto white balance editing feature in latest update" iDownload Blog 10:17 AM
"Raw Fury's 'Kingdom: New Lands' Hits the App Store" Touch Arcade 10:17 AM
"Silicon Valley Icon and Co-Founder of Apple Inc., Steve Wozniak, to Share His Insights as Keynote Presenter at UBM's Advanced Design and Manufacturing Event in New York on June 13" PRNewswire 7:54 AM
"Just Kodding launches Socket™ for iOS, shifting the mobile music paradigm from listening to DJ'ing" PRNewswire 7:54 AM
"Twitter For iPhone Now Lets You Easily Grab Back Some Storage Space" Digital Trends 7:15 AM
"Renault supporting CarPlay in Megane, Scenic, Talisman & more from April" 9to5Mac 7:14 AM
"DEVONthink To Go 2.1.2: Sharing, Markdown, and more" DEVONtechnologies 6:18 AM
"Microsoft is moving St Louis offices, creating another new Technology Center" OnMSFT 10:48 AM
"Microsoft demos Windows Server for ARM" bit-tech 6:32 AM
"Microsoft Brings Windows Server on ARM Chips in Huge Blow to Intel: Support for ARM processors now available on Windows Server" Softpedia 6:37 AM
"Microsoft and AMD partner to deliver open source cloud hardware" Computer Business Review 9:27 AM
"Nvidia and Microsoft team up to accelerate cloud-based AI" The Tech Report 10:33 AM
"Qualcomm, Microsoft to Give Cloud Services a Speed Boost" TechNewsWorld 1:46 PM
"Microsoft Silently Releases Unnamed Windows Driver Update That Fails to Install: New WPD driver shows up all of a sudden on Windows PCs" Softpedia 7:14 AM
"Is Microsoft Customer Service Good? 2017 Rating" LAPTOP Magazine 7:15 AM
"L'Oréal, Microsoft and TUI on balancing left-brain, right-brain and agility: Brands that are not able to stay on top of changes in society will die, L'Oréal's chief marketing officer, Hugh Pile, has warned." Campaign 9:39 AM
"Microsoft's Surface Studio will launch in France in July" Neowin 9:59 AM
"Visual Studio Preview Provides an Early Peek at New Features" Thurrott 12:16 PM
"Data stored on a single atom for the first time" Telegraph 9:07 AM
"IBM scientists write data onto a single atom in major breakthrough" Canada Journal 6:38 AM
"IBM stores data on a single atom" Computerworld 6:38 AM
"IBM researchers store data on individual atoms, could revolutionize hard drives" Neowin 6:18 AM
"IBM boffins develop nano hard drive from a single atom: Breakthrough demonstrates how small storage could become" The Inquirer 6:27 AM
"Single-atom magnets to pave the way for smaller and denser storage devices: IBM" ZDNet 6:19 AM
"After CIA leak, Intel Security releases detection tool for EFI rootkits" IDG News Service 4:02 PM
"Intel: we can control the narrative of eSports" PC Retail 6:37 AM
"AMD set to ship x32 Naples processors in Q2" EE Times Asia 6:10 AM
"HP launches Centre of Excellence in India: Helmed by the company's Digital India Business Unit, the facility aims to showcase multiple solutions for sectors such as education, healthcare, BFSI, and manufacturing." CIO.iin 6:30 AM
"Apple: One Of The Most Underappreciated Stocks In The World?" Barron's 10:17 AM
"Why Jim Cramer Still Loves Apple: It has a modest P/E, tons of overseas cash and the upcoming iPhone 8." TheStreet 7:16 AM
"STMicro shares slump on concerns over Apple supplies" Reuters 7:24 AM
Industry News
"Stocks eke out gains as energy shares rebound: Investors prepare for Friday jobs report" MarketWatch 4:21 PM
"Wall Street Stuck in Place as Investors Wait for February Jobs Report: Wall Street churned around the flatline for much of the day with investors reluctant to commit to any one direction until the release of Friday's highly anticipated jobs report." TheStreet 4:21 PM
"Indexes Rise Ahead Of Jobs Report; Finisar, Ulta Beauty Tumble Late" Investor's Business Daily 4:21 PM
"Wall St Ends Up Slightly; Energy Shares Rebound" Reuters 4:20 PM
"Stocks Flat on 8th Anniversary of Crisis Low: Energy shares rebound as oil prices pare losses late in the session" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:20 PM
"Asian markets mostly in the red, as China's inflation hits 2-year low" MarketWatch 6:53 AM
"Euro heads higher as traders wait for ECB policy call" MarketWatch 6:53 AM
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