"Intel wants to sell its smartphone modem business, as Apple didn't buy it" Pocketnow 7:55 AM
"The growing backlash against facial recognition tech: Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are all mired in controversy over it." Vox 7:57 AM
"Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:57 AM
"'I feel naked without them': Will AirPods spark the next major computing wave?" GeekWire 10:51 AM
"Apple Held Talks With Intel About Buying Its Smartphone-Modem Chip Business: Talks have cooled and Intel plans to seek out other buyers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/26
"Apple contemplated buying parts of Intel's cellular modem business to speed up 5G" AppleInsider 4/26
"Apple could buy Intel's modem business, report says" Mashable 4/26
"Turnover Hits Apple's Famed Industrial Design Team: Three designers will have recently left the prestigious, two-dozen member team responsible for the iPhone's design" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/26
"Apple's Services division could be worth $450 billion as its own company" Cult of Mac 4/26
"AC3: Apple's insatiable appetite for office space devours Wolfe Campus, hungry for more/Apple Park's sprawling 'Campus 2' remained a center of media attention ever since plans for the 'Spaceship' Ring nestled in acres of trees first gained approval back in 2013. However, a parallel third campus site just up Wolfe Road has more quietly progressed with less notoriety, despite being a remarkable project of its own." AppleInsider 4/26
"It's about time for a Mac with a touch interface: With rumors of mice and trackpads coming to iOS, the time is right for a change in the Mac user interface." Macworld 4/26
"Apple amping up purges of apps that are similar to iOS 12 Screen Time: Apple has eliminated 11 of the 17 most popular screen time monitoring and parental control apps from the App Store, and has done so with increasing frequency since it launched its own monitoring tool, Screen Time, in iOS 12." AppleInsider 12:49 PM
"Apple accused of clamping down on apps competing with Screen Time: Two companies have filed competition complaints with the EU." Engadget 3:46 PM
"Workers Love AirPods Because Employers Stole Their Walls: In the open-plan office, wireless headphones are the new cubicles." The Atlantic 8:57 AM
"Apple Was In Talks With Intel For Acquiring 5G Modem Business" Redmond Pie 4:35 PM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook had an impact on the company before he was even hired" Business Insider 4/26
"Intel admits Apple-Qualcomm settlement influenced its decision to drop 5G" Mashable 4/26
"No Pay, No Gain: Huawei Outspends Apple on R&D for a 5G Edge" Bloomberg News [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4/26
Non-Apple News
"Google staff share claims of company retaliation in town hall meeting: Google claims the stories aren't as they appear." Engadget 6:06 PM
"Amazon is reportedly working on a new high-def music streaming service" BGR 8:03 AM
"The Dispute Over Google's Alleged Retaliation Intensifies" Wired 7:34 AM
"Slack warns investors of a high risk of cyber-attacks impacting stock performance" ZDNet 4/26
"Elon Musk reaches settlement in SEC tweet battle: The SEC is not seeking additional punishments of Musk for a February tweet." Ars Technica 4/26
"Google and Amazon Follow in Apple's and Qualcomm's Footsteps" Market Realist 4/26
"Many Used Hard Drives Sold on eBay Still Contain Leftover Data: Data removal company Blannco analyzed 159 SSD and HDD storage drives purchased on eBay and found that many still contained leftover data from the previous owners." PC Magazine 4/26
"No matter where we live, we all switch apps in similar ways" ZDNet 4/26
"Cox Launches Elite Gamer Service With Reduced Lag For Windows PC Enthusiasts" HotHardware 4/26
"Cox wants gamers to pay an extra $15 for 'elite' internet that isn't actually faster: You might see less latency and jitter, but this seems dubious" The Verge 4/26
"The cameras in Walmart's new AI store produce 1.6TB of data per second" GearBrain 4/26
"Google brings down the banhammer on app developer for producing fake clicks" Android Authority 4/26
"Exclusive: Google Is Banning A Play Store Developer With More Than Half A Billion App Installs/DO Global ban comes after BuzzFeed News revealed it was committing ad fraud and violating other Google policies." BuzzFeed News 4/26
"How Parents Spend Their Digital Time After Kids Are Asleep" PC Magazine 4/26
"iFixit pulls Galaxy Fold teardown at Samsung's request: The drama is unfolding with increasing strangeness" The Verge 4/26
Publications/Podcasts
"Faster Together -Puget Systems Designs Custom Computers For Your Needs" MacVoices 9:29 AM
"RIP in Pepperoni Galaxy Fold – The TouchArcade Show #397" Touch Arcade 4/26
"Presentations from the Faster Together Stage at NAB 2019" fcp.co 4/26
"The Dalrymple Report: 4K video, iCloud, and Apple News with Dave Mark" The Loop 4/26
"Apple Design Team Updates, TDO Picks – TMO Daily Observations 2019-04-26" The Mac Observer 4/26
"Vergecast: WWDC leaks and further fiascos from Samsung and Luminary" The Verge 4/26
"Third-Party Parental Control Apps for iOS Devices Are Being Restricted" Pixel Envy 7:26 PM
"3 Ways iOS 13 Will Make You More Productive" Tom's Guide 10:51 AM
"macOS Update 10.15 (2019) News: Rumors, Features We Want" LAPTOP Magazine 7:56 AM
"WSJ: Apple dropped plan to buy Intel's modem biz/From 'Apple Held Talks With Intel About Buying Its Smartphone-Modem Chip Business' ($) in Saturday's Wall Street Journal." Apple 3.0 7:54 AM
"New Concept Shows 7 Features watchOS 6 Needs This Year" [Slideshow] iDrop News 4/26
"Casey Johnston Bought a 2018 MacBook Air and You Know Exactly Where This Is Going" Daring Fireball 4/26
"7 lessons Apple learns from Samsung's Galaxy Fold Fail" Apple Must 4/26
"Amazon could one-up Apple Music with new high-fidelity music tier" Cult of Mac 4/26
"Amazon to offer hi-res streaming music; Apple really should too" 9to5Mac 4/26
"What Apple can learn from the iPhone XR's success: The iPhone XR is Apple's best-selling model by a huge margin. Here are five takeaways Apple should pay attention to." Macworld 4/26
"What I really want is a la carte streaming service from Apple (or anyone)" Apple World Today 4/26
"More on iFixit Pulling Its Galaxy Fold Teardown" Daring Fireball 4/26
"I Love The Facebook Portal And I Don't Care Who Knows: I set up the critically reviled device in the BuzzFeed office and every one was utterly, truly delighted with it." BuzzFeed News 4/26
"How Amazon's Secret Sauce Keeps Plundering Your Markets" Forbes 4/26
"How to install the LinApple Apple II emulator on Linux" AddictiveTips 4/26
"8 once-heavily buzzed pieces of tech professionals are still watching" The Next Web 4/26
"Why Twitter has been slow to ban white nationalists" The Verge 4/26
"All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts" Daring Fireball 4/26
"What Should We Do About the Past Crimes of Reformed Hackers? The guilty plea of Marcus Hutchins, who slowed the spread of the WannaCry ransomware, shows the challenge facing the legal system." Slate 4/26
"Intel Admits CPU Shortages Will Continue Until Third Quarter of 2019" WCCFTech 7:37 AM
"Intel puts modem business up for sale, held talks with Apple — Report: Intel Corp is exploring strategic options for its modem chip business, including a possible sale to Apple or another acquirer." Reuters 7:40 AM
"Intel is trying to sell its smartphone-modem business: Apple and Qualcomm are friends again, so Intel is out." Engadget 7:41 AM
"Acer Predator Triton 500 Packs an i7-8750H and RTX 2080 Into a Thin Form Factor" WCCFTech 7:40 AM
"Bitspower Launches New Monoblock — Features RGB and OLED Screen" WCCFTech 7:37 AM
"Alleged AMD Navi GPU Based Graphics Card PCB Leaks Out — Features GDDR6 Memory, 256-bit Bus For Next-Gen Radeon" WCCFTech 7:38 AM
"Images of possible printed circuit board for AMD's Navi graphics cards leaked" Notebook Check 7:38 AM
"AMD Radeon RX Navi GPU Spotted Online, To Sport GDDR6 Memory and 256-Bit Bus" TechQuila 7:36 AM
"Microsoft Issues Important Windows 10 Upgrade Warning" Forbes 7:27 PM
"Microsoft Is the Latest to Try And Make a Home in the Trillion-Dollar Club" Barron's 7:42 AM
"HP Envy x360 review - A good notebook for creative content creators" TechNave 7:38 AM
"Trillion-dollar Azure Microsoft vs. Windows Microsoft: Finding the better path" Computerworld 4/26
"Microsoft Breaks the $1 Trillion Threshold" Investopedia 4/26
"Microsoft has become the third US company to achieve a trillion-dollar valuation" ZDNet 4/26
"Microsoft keeps hiding Azure revenue numbers, but why?" TechRepublic 4/26
"Microsoft Jumps on Strong Windows Growth and Cloud Strength" Motley Fool 4/26
"Microsoft Realizes Password Expiration Is Poor Security" PC Magazine 4/26
"IBM: Don't Give Up on the Stock/IBM remains out of favor with investors but it still generates enormous amounts of cash and is very cheaply valued." TheStreet 4/26
"IBM to partner with CU on quantum computing research" BizWest 4/26
"Yara, IBM to offer digital services to farmers" Reuters 4/26
"Dell updates Alienware, G series laptops with Intel 9th Gen CPUs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16-series GPUs" Digit 4/26
"NVMe is 'ready', say Dell EMC, Virtual Instruments and Cisco" ComputerWeekly 4/26
"Intel doubles down on 10nm in 2019, pledges to never have shortages again" Digital Trends 4/26
"Intel: CPU Shortages Will Persist Throughout Q3 2019" AnandTech 4/26
"Intel stockpiling 10nm chips, warns that 14nm shortages will continue: After years of problems, the company has finally had some good news about 10nm." Ars Technica 4/26
"Intel Trims Financial Forecast on Weaker Demand From Cloud, China: Company's quarterly sales of chips for data centers decline for the first time in seven years" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/26
"Down is the new up at Intel: PC processor sales rise while data center chips fall (So much for that data-centric push)" The Register 4/26
"Intel CEO: 'We'll Never Again Be a Constraint on our Customers' Growth'" Computer Business Review 4/26
"Intel Increases 10nm Ice Lake Chip Output With Systems In Stores For 2019 Holiday Shoppers" Forbes 4/26
"Intel is 'committed never again to be a constraint' on its customers after tricky Q1" PCGamesN 4/26
"US chipmakers knocked by Intel's cautious outlook" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 4/26
"Intel explains why it exited the 5G smartphone market" BGR 4/26
"AMD earnings: In a weakening chip sector, AMD brings rare optimism/After strong annual forecast, chip maker could report gains amid main rival Intel's travails" MarketWatch 4/26
"AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition CPU Pictured – Features Laser-Etched Signature of AMD's CEO, Same Specs As Standard 2700X" WCCFTech 4/26
"HP Introduces Mid-Cycle Kicker Products And Services Including Zoom Collaboration Solution" Forbes 4/26
"Oracle Policy Chief Pledges to Keep Up Fight on JEDI Cloud Bid" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4/26
"Oracle WebLogic affected by 'highly critical' Zero-Day flaw" Computing 4/26
"Can Cisco Webex Calling Shake Up the World of UC? - UC Today" UC Today 4/26
"Cisco: DNS attacks will undermine trust in the internet - Video" ZDNet 4/26
"AAPL Q2 2019 revenue will be down 5-6%, predict analysts- 9to5Mac" 9to5Mac 4/26
"Brace yourself for Apple's next ugly earnings call" Cult of Mac 4/26
Industry News
"S&P 500, Nasdaq close at records as robust GDP data offset tepid earnings: Intel shares tumble on disappointing outlook" MarketWatch 4/26
"Dow Jones Keeps Weekly Losses Small; Will Apple, Disney Outperform Intel In 2019?" Investor's Business Daily 4/26
"Stocks end week at new highs as good GDP data offsets poor earnings" FOXBusiness 4/26
"U.S. Stocks Rally to Put S&P 500, Nasdaq at New Records: U.S. economy expanded at 3.2% rate in the first quarter, helped by higher exports" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/26
"China logs worst week of 2019, as most Asia markets struggle: Nintendo, SoftBank weigh on Nikkei; Hang Seng up slightly" MarketWatch 4/26
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