"Apple and the iPhone Near Trade Crosshairs Again: iPhone not hit in latest round of tariffs but could get sucked into fray if U.S.-China trade tensions escalate" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:42 PM
"Apple starts a new chapter at Carnegie Library" Apple 6:13 PM
"What's wrong with Apple's new D.C. store? 'The city has converted a cultural gem entrusted to the entire city into an exclusive outlet that serves only the few.' — Citylab's Kriston Capps" Apple 3.0 7:21 AM
"Tim Cook and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser greet customers at the grand opening of Apple Carnegie Library" 9to5Mac 1:43 PM
"Tim Cook inaugurates Apple Carnegie Library with help from DC's mayor: Apple drew special attention to the launch of its Carnegie Library store in D.C. on Saturday, bringing not just CEO Tim Cook but retail head Deirdre O'Brien, marketing chief Phil Schiller, and the city's mayor, Muriel Bowser." AppleInsider 6:13 PM
"The Problem With D.C.'s New Apple Store" CityLab 7:21 AM
"Apple highlights iPhone XR battery life and iMessage encryption in latest ads [Videos] 9to5Mac 7:34 AM
"Apple Partner Starts Building Chips for the Next Generation of iPhones" ["The processor, dubbed A13, went into early test production in April and mass-production is planned for as early as this month, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing internal matters."] Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/10
"New Apple A13 chip coming to 2019 iPhones in fall" 9to5Mac 5/10
"Apple Likely to Be Spared from China Tariffs" Loup Ventures 5/10
"Chinese tariff increases begin today, with Apple still threatened" 9to5Mac 5/10
"Apple temporarily escapes new tariffs in escalating US-China trade war" AppleInsider 5/10
"'I'm Not Apple': Small Businesses Squeezed by Trump's Tariffs" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/10
"Apple Wins Lawsuit Over Group FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug" MacRumors 5/10
"Report: Apple's A13 Chips for Next Generation of iPhones Are Now in Production" Gizmodo 8:34 PM
"TSMC reportedly preparing for volume production of Apple's A13 SoC: Next iPhone's triple-camera setup likely, hoping for better aesthetics" TechSpot 1:44 PM
"New iPhone to have A13 chip, new cameras and reverse charging, report says: The iPhone 11 is so close." CNET 7:37 AM
"New report predicts reversible charging and camera upgrades for the 2019 iPhones" TechRadar UK 7:37 AM
"Apple's iPhone XR successor to replace Coral and Blue options with two new colors" MacDailyNews 1:38 PM
"The 2019 iPhone XR could come in two new colors" TechRadar UK 10:36 AM
"Apple to add green and lavender to next-gen iPhone XR color palette, report says" AppleInsider 7:16 AM
"Rumor suggests iOS 13 will not support iPhone 6, iPhone SE and iPhone 5s" 9to5Mac 5/10
"Questionable Rumor Says iOS 13 Will Drop Support for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and iPhone SE" MacRumors 5/10
"Bloomberg: 2019 iPhones Can Charge AirPods, Cameras Will Have Increased Zoom and Auto-Correction Feature" MacRumors 5/10
"Is Apple really about to kill the iPhone SE? A rumor claims iOS 13 will not support the iPhone SE" Computerworld 5/10
"2019 iPhone XR colors: Two new on the way" 9to5Mac 5/10
"Apple releases sixth developer beta of iOS 12.3 to developers for testing" AppleInsider 5/10
"iOS 12.3 Beta 6 Released for Testing" OS X Daily 5/10
"Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time" Gordon's Tech 6:13 PM
"Report says that HomePod has 6% of global smart speaker market" Apple World Today 1:35 PM
"Cassandra -Weekend Review: Fool me Once" eXtensions 10:40 AM
"Apple's Retail Stores Are Bending But Not Breaking" The Mac Observer 5/10
"Is It Time for Apple to Make a Real Smart Home Hub?" iDrop News 5/10
"Why I Have Zero Interest in Cloud Gaming: Apple, Google, and Microsoft are poised to release cloud-gaming platforms to the masses, but the drawbacks outweigh the potential benefits." PC Magazine 5/10
"Right to Repair Laws: Everything You Need to Know in 2019" Gizmodo 5/10
"Postal Address Insanity: Why I Switched from Spotify to Apple Music" TidBITS 5/10
"Tim Cook Wants People To View Apple Today As A Consumer Company" MacPrices 5/10
"I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me" ["When Don Norman says he wrote the book on user-friendly design, he's not kidding. Don is a former Apple VP and his book The Design of Everyday Things is a seminal work."] The Loop 5/10
"Three features Apple should borrow from Google's I/O announcements: Apple might benefit from following the lead of one of its most prominent frenemies." Macworld 5/10
"What Intel's latest roadmap updates mean for the Mac: Until Apple starts using its own processors in Macs, the future of Intel is the future of Apple's laptops." Macworld 5/10
Non-Apple
"Google Pixel 3a XL unboxing and first impressions" Neowin 10:38 AM
"Best game phones of 2019 compared: We tested the Razer Phone 2, Asus ROG, Black Shark and Nubia Red Magic Mars to see which one is truly the best phone for gaming." CNET 7:35 AM
"AI is becoming esports' secret weapon" VentureBeat 5/10
"Is latency the cloud's Achilles heel? [Q&A] BetaNews 5/10
"Alexa, What Is a Conflict of Interest? Digital assistants are both friend and sales robot." Slate 5/10
"Why Google believes machine learning is its future: Why we heard so much about machine learning at Google I/O this year." Ars Technica 5/10
"If You Build It, They Will I/O" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/10
"5 Little Things from Google I/O That Could Be Big News for You" Gizmodo 5/10
"Google Tries Again With Pixel 3A" Tech.pinions [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/10
"Google's new Pixel 3a was launched at an awkward time, when everyone is expecting a new flagship Pixel phone in just a few months — but here's why that's OK" Business Insider 5/10
"Google Assistant 2.0 isn't just a minor evolution; it's a game-changing upgrade" Digital Trends 5/10
"Apple's New Privacy-Focused Ad Highlights iMessage's End-to-End Encryption" MacTrast 3:23 PM
"You Can Now Listen To Google Podcasts On iOS And Desktop Too" Tech Times 7:34 AM
"Accordance Mobile 3.0 Major Update! Accordance Bible Software is delighted to announce the third major release of their software for use on the iPhone and iPad." Accordance 5/10
"A BMW outage made Apple CarPlay unusable" Engadget 5/10
"Apple Pay Hungary and Luxembourg Close to Launch" The Mac Observer 5/10
"Repairing And Upgrading A HP 16533A Scope Card" Hackaday 7:17 AM
"PS5 release date and price UPDATE: Bad news for PlayStation fans ahead of Sony reveal" Express UK 7:18 AM
"Intel's 3-Year Outlook May Be Weak, But Its Technology Roadmap Is Intriguing: The chip giant expects very little sales and earnings growth through 2021. But it also promises to launch cutting-edge data center and notebook products in the coming years, and to improve its manufacturing position." TheStreet 5/10
"Exclusive: Intel Engineering Chief Discusses Plans to Speed Chip Making/Dr. Venkata Renduchintala outlined how the chip giant plans to becomes nimbler and less 'monolithic' following years of manufacturing stumbles." TheStreet 5/10
"Could Intel's Modem Business Appeal to Samsung?" Market Realist 5/10
"Intel Announces Project Athena Open Labs to Speed Hardware Deployment" ExtremeTech 5/10
"Intel: Folding Display Laptops at Least 2 Years Away" PC Magazine 5/10
"Analyst: Intel flash supply partnership prospects could point to SK Hynix" The Register 5/10
"Intel is having its worst week of 2019, and two experts see more pain for the Dow stock" CNBC 5/10
"AMD Gains PC CPU Market Share from Intel with Ryzen" Market Realist 5/10
"AMD's powerful Ryzen processors are on sale for all-time low prices and bundled with free games: It's a great time to go AMD. The Ryzen 7 2700 is $195 at Walmart, and Amazon has the Ryzen 5 2600X for $160, and the Ryzen 5 2600 for $145." PCWorld 5/10
"AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q2: Gaming Driver Support for Radeon Pro" AnandTech 5/10
"AMD Ryzen 3000 leak points to two 16-core CPUs" The Inquirer 5/10
"AMD And Cray Win Frontier Supercomputer DOE Deal" Forbes 5/10
"Raja points out Nvidia and AMD datacenter weakness" Fudzilla 5/10
"AMD has 'no software ecosystem that's meaningful' without Intel" PCGamesN 5/10
"Microsoft: The open source company/The times, they are a-changin'—even bits of Windows will be open source." Ars Technica 5/10
"Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription, virtual microphone arrays: Microsoft Research's 'Project Denmark' technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more." ZDNet 5/10
"Microsoft: The open source company/The times, they are a-changin'—even bits of Windows will be open source." Ars Technica 5/10
"Microsoft is building a virtual assistant for work. Google is building one for everything else" Quartz 5/10
"Cybersecurity: This is how Microsoft Defender ATP tackles password-stealing credential dumping attempts" ZDNet 5/10
"IBM Sets Its Sights on the $12 Billion Precision Farming Market" Market Realist 5/10
"David Webster departs from Dell EMC: Dell EMC unified sales teams in APJ under Amit Midha" New Zealand Reseller News 5/10
"Nvidia is sliding after Trump escalates the trade war with China" Business Insider 5/10
"Oracle To Lay Off 1,600 Staff In China" SupChina 5/10
"Huawei is about to take on Oracle in the database market" Fast Company 5/10
"Oracle's legal woes deepen: Big Red sued (again) for age and medical 'discrimination'" The Register 5/10
"Oracle workers may find age, industry expectations are hurdles in job hunt" TechNode 5/10
"Oracle Malaysia launches Cloud Solution Hub" Borneo Post 5/10
"Bushnell v. Cisco: District Court Dismisses Willfulness Allegations Solely Based on Knowledge of Patents by Acquired Entity" Lexology 5/10
"Estimating iPhone, iPad, and Mac Installed Bases, Calculating the Mix of Apple Devices in Use, Thursday Q&A" Above Avalon 5/10
Industry News
"Stocks close higher as U.S. touts trade talks with China as 'constructive': Uber Technologies IPO in spotlight" MarketWatch 5/10
"Stocks End Green as Trump Says Trade Talk Will Continue: Stocks rebound on encouraging words from the White House on U.S.-China trade war." TheStreet 5/10
"Dow Makes Furious Comeback To Lead Stock Market Higher: The stock market today took investors for a wild ride as the key indexes rallied into the black after falling hard, with the Dow Jones industrials taking the lead." Investor's Business Daily 5/10
"US stocks recoup losses on officials' upbeat trade comments: U.S. stocks Friday closed up after rebounding from early session losses, which stemmed from President Trump hiking tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing vowing retaliation, as officials from both countries made positive comments about their negotiations." FOXBusiness 5/10
"Stocks Bounce Back, Close Higher as Investors Weigh New Tariffs: Companies reliant on Chinese demand and global trade come under pressure despite afternoon rally" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/10
"China stocks soar to best one-day gain since March, as U.S. tariffs kick in: Nikkei stands out with 0.3% drop" MarketWatch 5/10
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