"Apple's Road to $2 Trillion Will Be Paved With AR, Apple Cars: Analyst/Augmented reality and Apple Cars are the key to Apple's $2 trillion frontier, according to one analyst. It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds." TheStreet 7:52 AM
"Apple Retail's Mission: Embodied Values" ["No other tech company has Apple's base of 65,000 retail employees delivering face to face advice, support, and experiences. Microsoft comes in second with about 6,000 retail employees."] Loup Ventures 12:06 PM
"Melbourne teen hacked into Apple's secure computer network, court told: A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI." ["The Children's Court heard on Thursday that he had downloaded 90gb of secure files and accessed customer accounts."] Sydney Morning Herald 7:06 AM
"Melbourne teen pleads guilty to hacking into Apple network: Australian boy downloaded 90 gigabytes of secure files and accessed customer accounts" Reuters 8:18 PM
"Australian teen who hacked Apple from home 'dreamed of' working for the tech giant" Stuff: New Zealand 8:19 PM
"Apple accused of pressuring game rivals in Japan: Japanese regulators are investigating Apple Inc over allegations it unfairly pressured Yahoo Japan Corp to slow the expansion of its online games platform, which competes with Apple's App Store, Japanese media reported on Thursday." Reuters 7:50 AM
"Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo to go slow on App Store rival in Japan: Japan's Fair Trade Commission is looking into the matter, tied to Yahoo's game streaming platform." CNET 9:00 AM
"Watch Apple Park's massive motorized cafeteria doors open in this video" AppleInsider 7:34 AM
"'Lunchtime got a whole lot more exciting': Tim Cook posts gif of Apple Park's spectacular sliding doors" Business Insider 7:42 AM
"Apple Offers a Peek Inside Their Mesa, Arizona Data Center" MacTrast 8:05 AM
"Two days after Turkey's Apple boycott, smashed iPhones and enforcement questions" AppleInsider 3:17 PM
"Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree" CNBC 9:32 AM
"Apple's new emoji candidates a win for diversity?" Fox Business Videos 7:51 AM
"Police are seeking help in solving another Apple Store robbery" Cult of Mac 8:29 AM
"Spotify Losing Ground In Streaming As Amazon Gains" Investopedia 8:15 AM
Non-Apple News
"Google confirms it tracks users even when 'Location History' setting is disabled: Google updated help center documentation Thursday to clarify its location data collection policies, changes made in light of recent revelations that the firm's apps and website continue to harvest user information even when a global 'Location History' setting is disabled." AppleInsider 8:21 PM
"Ajit Pai knew DDoS claim was false in January, says he couldn't tell Congress: Pai appears in front of Senate after acknowledging FCC's false statements." Ars Technica 3:17 PM
"AP NewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy" Associated Press 4:01 PM
"Google might be opening a retail store in Chicago" The Verge 3:17 PM
"Google Employees Are Organizing To Protest The Company's Secret, Censored Search Engine For China: Following a series of crises at Google, disparate worker organizing efforts within the company are coalescing, part of a growing workers' movement in the tech industry." BuzzFeed 12:14 PM
"Bugs Will Actually Make Your Next Phone Better" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:13 AM
"It sure looks like a Pixel Watch will launch alongside the Pixel 3 phones" BGR 8:04 AM
"Google's US political advertising report shows Trump as biggest spender: Transparency report shows who buys election ads how much money they spend." CNET 7:54 AM
"Google expands bug bounty program to include fraud protection bypass, free purchases" ZDNet 7:53 AM
"Twitter users are protesting Alex Jones with a viral block list" The Verge 7:41 AM
"Imposter 'Fortnite' Android Apps Are Already Spreading Malware" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:34 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Twitter Absurdity, iPhone Pencils, Cyborg Vision -ACM 475" The Mac Observer 3:13 PM
"Here Comes In Home 5G Broadband -TMO Daily Observations 2018-08-16" The Mac Observer 12:11 PM
"200: 200th Episode Spooktacular" The Rebound 10:01 AM
"Review: Lifx Tile is a fun but flawed HomeKit accent lighting accessory" 9to5Mac 9:34 PM
"Review: Audio-Technica's ANC700BT headphones sound great, but are marred by odd controls/Audio-Technica's QuietPoint ATH-ANC700BT tries to bridge the gap between performance and cost, and mostly succeeds except for awkward and unnecessary touch controls." AppleInsider 5:44 PM
"Review: Understands Butler, a neat wooden shelf for an iMac or Apple monitor" 9to5Mac 10:03 AM
"Why Apple's AR glasses will transform your enterprise" Computerworld 8:37 AM
"The Apple I Knew... A rant about customer service, support, and experience" 500ish Words 8:08 AM
"What Ming-Chi Kuo said about Apple's carworks" Apple 3.0 8:08 AM
"A $2,000 iPhone: It's coming. It's inevitable/With Samsung pushing the envelope on the price of flagship smartphones with its $1,250 512GB Galaxy Note 9, it's only a matter of time before we have a $2,000 iPhone." ZDNet 7:53 AM
"Working it: iPad productivity isn't about cursors" Macworld 7:43 AM
"Voice-controlled Glas thermostat supports Cortana, Alexa, and Google Assistant" ["Glas doesn't yet have either Siri or HomeKit support, but iOS users do have an option: Microsoft's free Cortana app. As HomeKit integration tends to be trickier than Alexa or Assistant integration, it's unclear whether or not Glas will add support; a recently-released option from Ecobee notably has full Alexa support built in plus HomeKit integration."] VentureBeat 11:43 AM
"Bethesda Issues Ultimatum to Sony Over PS4 Crossplay Policies" Touch Arcade 10:01 AM
"Apple Maps transit directions expand to areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine & Michigan" iDownload Blog 9:01 AM
"Tweetbot falls victim to Twitter's incoming developer changes" Engadget 8:05 AM
"WaterField unveils the Tech Pocket - A Minimalist Tech Accessory Pouch" prMac 7:43 AM
"Protect your new MacBook Pro with the Palm Rest and Trackpad Protector" Apple World Today 7:22 AM
"Microsoft and Amazon made their voice assistants into friends. Here's how that relationship works." Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:20 AM
"Using Microsoft's Hybrid MDM? Er, not for much longer: You will move to Intune on Azure. You have one year to comply" The Register 7:59 AM
"Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 18219 to Skip Ahead Insiders - here's what's new" Neowin 2:45 PM
"Intel buys deep-learning startup Vertex.AI to join its Movidius unit" TechCrunch 5:43 PM
"Intel teases 'powerful' discrete GPU ahead of 2020 launch: Firm looks to steal Nvidia's thunder ahead of GTX 1080 launch" The Inquirer 6:49 AM
"Intel teases dGPU graphics for 2020 launch" bit-tech 7:18 AM
"Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake chip gets another outing in new NUC mini PC: Wider availability of the 10nm part suggests yields may be creeping upward." Ars Technica 12:29 PM
"Intel updates NUC kits with Coffee Lake and mini-PCs with discrete graphics" Neowin 7:18 AM
"Intel CPUs At Risk From Foreshadow Flaw" Silicon UK 7:17 AM
"More side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs" Canada 7:20 AM
"AMD Threadripper 2990WX overclocked to 6GHz across all 32 cores: It took a lot of cooling and liquid nitrogen to do so" The Inquirer 6:49 AM
"New Threadripper Puts AMD in Driver Seat for Workstations" Tech.pinions 11:07 AM
"Dell EMC continues to aid Indian IT with PowerEdge servers: As per IDC Q1 2018 report, Dell EMC's Indian server industry share was recorded at 28.3%, in the x86 server category." The Economic Times 7:01 AM
"Dell EMC's VP of EU channel: Brexit needs clarity, but it's not stopping me" Channel Pro 11:16 AM
"HP expands VR solutions portfolio, unveils 'HP Mars Home Planet' Virtual Reality simulation: The HP Mars Home Planet VR experience takes users through a Martian Community Onboarding Center, showing innovations in areas that enable humans to make the leap to Mars." digit 11:50 AM
"HP dominated India printing market with 47% share in Q2 2018" Morung Express 7:02 AM
"Oracle and IBM seek to build a Java API for SIMD support: The Java Vector API aims to provide a mechanism to write complex vector algorithms in Java" Infoworld 7:45 PM
"Oracle Wins Injunction Against Rimini Street In Long-Running Feud: The Las Vegas-based company built its business by infringing on Oracle's intellectual property, a federal judge ruled. Rimini said it halted all improper practices years ago, and will appeal the latest decision" CRN 7:23 AM
"Cisco's $2.35 billion Duo acquisition front and center at earnings call" TechCrunch 12:13 PM
"Arm thinks its next processors will outperform Intel's" Neowin 11:06 AM
"ARM plans to take on Intel in laptops with 7nm 'Deimos' and 5nm 'Hercules' CPUs: ARM plans 7nm 'Deimos' for 2019 and 5nm and 7nm 'Hercules' for 2020" V3 11:06 AM
"In a first-ever public peek at its roadmap, Arm touts laptop chips that will outmatch Intel's" BGR 11:07 AM
"ARM says its next processors will outperform Intel laptop chips: It expects its 2019 and 2020 processors to push past Intel." Engadget 11:54 AM
"Arm CPU Roadmap Reveals Deimos And Hercules Assaults On Intel Notebook Chips" HotHardware 6:01 PM
"NAND Oversupply Could Crater SSD Pricing To 8 Cents Per Gigabyte Next Year" HotHardware 6:00 PM
"Here's Why Apple's Margins Will Be Flat This Quarter" The Motley Fool 11:27 AM
"Russians Buy Apple, Amazon as Sanctions Push Investment Overseas" Bloomberg 7:52 AM
Industry News
"Stock market closes higher as Dow has best day in 4 months: All 11 S&P 500 sectors finish in positive territory" MarketWatch 5:37 PM
"Dow Jumps Nearly 300 Points as U.S. and China to Resume Trade Talks: Stocks surge on Thursday after China says it is set to resume trade talks with the United States, and Walmart tops earnings estimates and raises full-year guidance." TheStreet 5:38 PM
"Stocks march higher on growing hopes for China trade talks" Associated Press 5:40 PM
"U.S. Stocks Surge on Upbeat Earnings: The Dow records biggest one-day gain in four months; Walmart soars" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:40 PM
"Cisco tops profit, revenue estimates boosted by software" FOXBusiness 7:54 AM
"Asian markets slip, but recover from steeper early losses: Tencent continues to slump; Nikkei bounces back into positive territory" MarketWatch 7:55 AM
"European shares stage modest rebound after prior day's rout: Rise in commodity prices support gains in energy stocks" MarketWatch 7:55 AM
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