"Apple Vulnerable in U.S.-China Trade Showdown: The U.S. imported about $45 billion in mobile phones from China last year" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:03 AM
"Trump may not spare iPhone from trade war" Cult of Mac 10:25 AM
"Apple Is in Danger of Abandoning Creative Pros" ["Over the past few years, Apple has trashed its prized laptop keyboard, much to the chagrin of journalists and writers. Apple also ditched the SD card slot; it's been almost two years and there's still no good alternative for photographers snapping big RAW files and videographers shooting 4K all day, at least besides cumbersome dongles. ... Now, the top-end version of its flagship laptop has become Cupertino's latest headache, assuming it can't come up with a satisfactory solution to its Core i9 CPU throttling — this on a multi-thousand-dollar machine that's targeted at exactly the creative pros it claims to support."] ExtremeTech 8:20 AM
"MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update promises to fix 2018 MacBook Pro throttling issues: Fix address a software bug in the MacBookPro firmware that affected processor speed." Macworld 12:29 PM
"Apple identifies and fixes thermal bug in new MacBook Pro" The Loop 12:51 PM
"Apple apologizes, issues update for MacBook Pro thermal throttling bug" TechCrunch 12:52 PM
"Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All: The pursuit of thinner, lighter laptops, a trend driven by Apple, means we have screwed ourselves out of performance." Motherboard 7:42 AM
"It's Time to Call Out Laptop Manufacturers for Their Bullsh*t CPU Throttling" ["These issues are not unique to Apple — and we said as much as in our initial coverage — but Apple's Core i9 implementation appears particularly egregious."] ExtremeTech 7:46 AM
"MacBook Pro CPU throttling controversy continues as Intel says it's ok" 9to5Mac 7:50 AM
"Verizon Is Seeking Google or Apple as 5G TV Provider" Bloomberg 7:56 AM
"Apple Piazza Liberty opens Thursday in Milan" Apple 7:37 AM
"Apple Previews New Piazza Liberty Store, Opening Thursday in Milan" MacRumors 7:47 AM
"Apple opens beautiful retail store in Milan, Italy" Apple Must 9:31 AM
"Kantar: iPhone makes up 8 out of the 10 best-selling smartphones in Q2 as iOS gains on Android" 9to5Mac 7:39 PM
"iPhone 8 & 8 Plus help boost Apple to 38.7 percent of US smartphone market" AppleInsider 8:11 PM
"Chinese users reportedly being bombarded with iMessage spam" Cult of Mac 7:55 AM
"How bad can spam get on iMessage? Extremely bad" Pocketnow 8:40 PM
"Spotify uses your music tastes to find festival tickets; Apple, please note" 9to5Mac 7:49 AM
"Watch YouTubers Unbox This Pristine 18-Year-Old iBook G3" iDrop News 7:42 AM
Non-Apple News
"Dropbox still has questions to answer after claims of improper data sharing: Academics say Dropbox violated their privacy by sharing anonymized data with researchers." ZDNet 5:01 PM
"Facebook's top lawyer is leaving as the company still grapples with election aftermath and a federal investigation" Recode 7:46 PM
"Facebook's top security exec urges company to collect less user data" Mashable 5:42 PM
"Facebook signs agreement saying it won't let housing advertisers exclude users by race" The Verge 3:50 PM
"Facebook to end ad targeting that excludes ethnicities and religions in deal with Washington State AG" GeekWire 3:47 PM
"The 'Galaxy X' is supposedly Samsung's first gaming phone – and it doesn't fold" BGR 9:55 AM
"Google Cloud will soon have a major new feature to better compete with Amazon and Microsoft" Business Insider 8:39 PM
"Google really, really wants to replace call center workers with AI" BGR 6:28 PM
"Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud apps" TechCrunch 4:43 PM
"Google Assistant's news feeds are getting smarter" TechCrunch 4:09 PM
"Sundar Pichai strayed from Google's typical rhetoric as he touted the growth of Google Cloud" Business Insider 8:11 AM
"Android apps are heading to a whiter future with rounder rectangles: A hint of what's to come from Google's 2018 Material redesign" The Verge 7:45 AM
"Harry Potter coding kit teaches programming with a wand: The first Harry Potter-themed STEM product teaches kids how to code up magic spells." CNET 7:37 AM
"Here's why AI can't make a catchier tune than the worst pop song in the charts right now: DeepMind tries to train a neural network on classical piano" The Register 7:35 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Macworld Podcast: Join us on Wednesday, July 25, at 10 a.m. Pacific" Macworld 3:50 PM
"Macstock -Mike and Rachel Schmitz On The Benefits of the Conference" MacVoices 2:15 PM
"Scanning, OCR, Travel Phone Cases, and the Best Portable Computer – Mac Geek Gab 719" The Mac Observer 12:22 PM
"Senator Ron Wyden reckons with the internet he helped shape" The Verge 9:51 AM
"AppStories, Episode 71 – PDF Apps" MacStories 8:04 AM
"Ian on the iMore Vector Podcast: Discussing Core i9 and Thermal Throttling" AnandTech 7:57 AM
"Let's Talk iOS 249: A hot button issue" iDownload Blog 7:56 AM
"Microsoft delivers public previews of its Office 2019 server products" ZDNet 12:01 PM
"Yet another Surface Book 2 problem: GPU not detected. Microsoft doesn't care./In a situation eerily reminiscent of Surface Pro 4 screen Flickergate, many Surface Book 2 customers complain that the GPU suddenly disappears. Why doesn't Microsoft come clean with an answer?" Computerworld 8:39 AM
"Windows 10: Microsoft re-opens Skip Ahead program but you need to be quick" ZDNet 8:08 AM
"Microsoft to deliver rural broadband via TV white spaces" Axios 8:39 AM
"Microsoft To Launch New Xbox Console Hardware With Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming Service" Redmond Pie 11:42 AM
"HP unveils new series of Elite notebooks and desktops in India" Jagran Josh 8:19 AM
"Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series 'Knights Landing' Host Processors" AnandTech 12:53 PM
"Intel Pentium Gold G5600 And G5400 Review: Four Threads Under $100" Tom's Hardware 8:24 AM
"Intel just smashed another record with latest drone show" InaVate 8:28 AM
"Intel's Core i9-9900K flagship rumored to hit 5GHz boost out of the box: More details spilled on the incoming 9th-generation processors" TechRadar UK 8:28 AM
"Top end 9th gen Intel Core Series processors outlined" Hexus 8:28 AM
"Quad Core AMD Ryzen 5 2500X Leaked By Acer Ahead Of Launch" SegmentNext 8:27 AM
"Vodafone taps IBM for digital transformation: Vodafone has teamed up with IBM to automate its customer interactions with chatbots and to implement an agile approach to new application development." Computerworld New Zealand 7:59 AM
"Android Oreo adoption hits double-digits after 10 months: Takes the biscuit" The Inquirer 8:08 AM
"Oracle fixes Solaris vulnerability could allow kernel level privilege escalation" ZDNet 10:21 AM
"Acer Predator Helios 500 with up to Intel Core i9 processor, 4K display launched in India: Acer Predator Helios 500 is a significant upgrade to the Helios 300 laptop. Its price goes up to Rs 2,49,999 in India for the high-end model with Intel Core i9 processor" Financial Express 8:39 AM
"Acer introduces Predator Helios 500 Notebook with AMD Vega 56 Graphics: The Acer Helio 500 notebook sports a 4K UHD or Full-HD IPS 17.3-inch display with 144Hz refresh rates for the blur- and tear-free gameplay" Gizbot 8:27 AM
"Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots: Alphabet and Huawei join Amazon in the race to build androids, the first of which could debut by 2020." Bloomberg 12:03 PM
"Apple: The Quant View Shows a Weak September" Barron's 3:55 PM
"Buybacks, Not iPhone Driving Apple Valuation: BMO" Investopedia 8:04 AM
"Don't Blame Amazon or Apple for an Expensive Market: The S&P 500 is costly even without the FANG stocks." Bloomberg 8:03 AM
"iPhone headed for record earnings growth for rest of 2018, says analyst" AppleInsider 10:24 AM
"Guggenheim raises Apple price target to $225" Apple 3.0 7:42 AM
Industry News
"Stock market advances on strong earnings: Dow on track to snap three-day decline" MarketWatch 3:59 PM
"Dow Breaks 3-Day Skid; Nasdaq Rebounds to End Flat: The Dow ended higher, breaking a 3-day skid, while the Nasdaq rebounded to end little changed after hitting a record high earlier." TheStreet 3:59 PM
"Alphabet Leads Large Caps; Can Lockheed Martin Make A Bullish Move?" Investor's Business Daily 3:59 PM
"Stocks mostly higher following barrage of earnings reports" FOXBusiness 3:59 PM
"Earnings Boost U.S. Stocks: U.S. stocks rose Tuesday as investors cheered what is shaping up to be a strong corporate-earnings season." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:59 PM
"Asian markets bounce back, led by gains in China: Indexes in Shanghai, Hong Kong jump more than 1%; Nikkei gains as yen retreats" MarketWatch 8:32 AM
"European stocks step higher, getting a boost from bank shares: Peugeot shares rev higher after earnings report" MarketWatch 8:32 AM
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