"5 Jaw-Dropping Graphs Detailing Apple Inc's March to $1 Trillion" The Motley Fool 8:21 AM
"Overall Q1 US Smartphone Sales Dip 11% YoY, Apple Grows a Record 16% YoY" Counterpoint Research 8:19 AM
"The Apple Watch has found a surprisingly useful home" ["Quartz spoke with airline attendants, bartenders, waiters, baristas, shop owners, and (very politely) TSA employees who all said the same thing: The Apple Watch keeps them in touch when they can't be on their phones at work."] Quartz 8:21 AM
"Apple and Google's Quest to Quench Fake News" Tech.pinions [Subscription Required for Full Article] 9:41 AM
"Apple Facing Sweaty Powerbeats Lawsuit: Battery life is poor, they fail to charge, eventually stop working, and sweat is thought to be the cause." PC Magazine 8:24 AM
"YouTube TV is the kind of cable-killing TV experience Apple promised us but failed to deliver, analysts say" Business Insider 9:42 AM
"Apple's 'Amazing Stories' Taps 'Once Upon a Time' Duo as New Showrunners" Variety 12:51 PM
"'Too inconvenient': Trump goes rogue on phone security" ["The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones — one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites — are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications."] Politico 8:16 AM
"Trump uses iPhones for Twitter and voice calls, reportedly refuses security swap outs" AppleInsider 8:15 AM
"Starbucks's mobile payments system is so popular in the U.S., it has more users than Apple's or Google's: New estimates predict that it will stay that way." Recode 10:15 AM
"iOS 11"s Worst Bugs of All Time" iDrop News 8:33 AM
"How controversial Theranos founder borrowed Steve Jobs' look" Cult of Mac 8:28 AM
"Sticking with it: iPhone X sales have to disappoint eventually" Macworld 8:15 AM
"It's time for the Apple Watch to get a watch face store/Commentary: All signs point to the Apple Watch getting more watch faces. Which would be, mostly, a very good thing." CNET 8:13 AM
Non-Apple
"Yammering on One More Time Regarding Google's Duplex Recordings" Daring Fireball 9:19 PM
"The Google Pixel 3 design might be hidden in Android P beta" Mashable 2:51 PM
"New Spectre Variant Discovered That Affects AMD, ARM, and Intel" ExtremeTech 6:42 PM
"Why Intel May Not Worry About the Latest Processor Bug: DealBook Briefing" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:48 AM
"Spectre isn't dead: Here are 2 new variants IT should patch against/These new vulnerabilities in the Spectre and Meltdown family-Speculative Store Bypass and Rogue System Register Read—require further microcode patching of CPUs." TechRepublic 7:52 AM
"New Spectre-like bug could mean more performance-degrading patches" Digital Trends 8:34 AM
"New speculative-execution vulnerability strikes AMD, ARM, and Intel: Fortunately, existing fixes should provide the protection we need." Ars Technica 1:02 PM
"Intel Finds New Spectre Derivative" Thurrott 7:56 AM
"Intel reveals another security flaw in its chips: Intel has promised that the patches would be rolled out broadly in the next few weeks." The Economic Times 7:56 AM
"Intel And Microsoft Disclose Latest Spectre-Style CPU Flaw, Official Fix Could Slow Some PCs" HotHardware 7:56 AM
"Intel details fourth Spectre-style CPU security flaw: There are fixes on the way, but it's still a headache." Engadget 7:08 AM
"Intel, AMD confirm new Spectre variants: SSB could potentially be used to exploit browsers' JIT JavaScript compilers" Computerworld New Zealand 7:08 AM
"Intel, Micron's first-ever QLC NAND flash: Cheaper, denser SSD storage is coming" ZDNet 10:59 AM
"Google And Microsoft Are Warning About A Troubling New Chip Bug—Here's What You Need To Know" Forbes 7:53 AM
"New Spectre variant 4: Our patches cause up to 8% performance hit, warns Intel" ZDNet 7:37 AM
"Spectre Variant 4 disclosed, mitigations to result in another performance hit" Neowin 7:37 AM
"Micron, Intel Ship Industry's First Quad-Level Cell NAND SSD" eWeek 7:21 AM
"Intel's Powerful 8-core Mainstream Processor Appears in SISoftware Benchmarks" CDR Info 7:53 AM
"Intel and Micron launch QLC NAND memory to increase storage density: Bringing down the cost of high capacity SSDs" TechSpot 7:52 AM
"Sony is working with AMD's Ryzen CPU tech - and PS5 is the most likely target: PlayStation programmer improving Ryzen support on a key developer tool." Eurogamer 7:49 AM
"Microsoft also has an AI bot that makes phone calls to humans: Similar to Google Duplex, but only in China" The Verge 7:57 AM
"Dell-Icahn clash may reignite over VMware: Activist investor expects Dell to pay 'right price' for VMware in potential merger" Channelnomics 7:43 AM
"Oracle's Latest Acquisition Could Dim Cloudera's Dreams" Seeking Alpha 7:59 AM
"What Apple's Stock Buyback Plan Should Tell You about the Future" The Mac Observer 8:08 AM
"Apple bear makes the worst of a good thing" Apple 3.0 9:40 AM
Industry News
"Tuesday Turnaround: Micron, Autonomous Driving, and J.C. Penney/Time to jump right in and got through the top stories of Tuesday, May 22." TheStreet 5:41 PM
"What's that cracking sound? A woman just became the New York Stock Exchange's president" USA Today 12:26 PM
"Dow drops 179 points as Trump renews China trade concern" FOXBusiness 5:42 PM
"US Stocks-Wall St slips on U.S.-China trade talk uncertainty; energy falls" Reuters 5:42 PM
"Late-Day Selling Hits Dow, Small Caps; S&P 500 Marks Distribution Day" Investor's Business Daily 5:43 PM
"U.S. Stocks Slip as Investors Weigh Trade Talks: Industrial companies like Boeing and Caterpillar weigh on blue chips" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:43 PM
"Nikkei pulls back from 3-month high as Asian markets dip" MarketWatch 8:23 AM
"U.K. stocks hang onto all-time high with BOE hearing in focus" MarketWatch 8:23 AM
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