"France passes digital tax on Apple, others" 9to5Mac 8:42 AM
"The 2020 iPhone is already overshadowing the iPhone 11: Rumors about next year's iPhone are heating up, with promising sales forecasts and some standout features." CNET 7/13
"Tesla to Apple: Help Us Nail Robocar-Secrets Thief" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"Tesla wants Apple's help in solving IP theft" Cult of Mac 7/12
"Tesla requests iCloud data for engineer who allegedly stole Autopilot secrets" AppleInsider 7/12
"Why the recent hacks show Apple's security strength, not its weakness" Digital Trends 7/12
"Apple reportedly suspends development of AR/VR headsets" DigiTimes [Subscription Required for Full Article] 7/12
"Does Apple's simplified Mac lineup have a hole in it? Apple's recent tweaks to its portable Mac lineup puts the company in an unusual position." Macworld 7/12
"Apple: Macintosh Forks/It's hardly a stretch to assume that Macs will one day be powered by Apple's own CPU chips. This will lead to a fork — or two — of macOS. A 'sliding' fork starting at the product line's low end, and another that permanently sequesters the new 'extreme' Mac Pro." Monday Note 1:28 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How to Use Sidecar to Extend your Screen in macOS Catalina and iPadOS" LAPTOP Magazine 8:22 AM
"Visa's vision for the future of payments is password-free" ZDNet 8:35 PM
"Peter Thiel says FBI, CIA should probe Google" Axios 8:02 PM
"Exclusive: U.S. firms may get nod to restart Huawei sales in 2-4 weeks - official" Reuters 6:23 PM
"NBA and NFL commissioners tell how they're turning to technology to draw in fans" CNBC 6:04 PM
"Page through computer history with this complete scan of NeXT's Fall 1989 catalog" The Verge 3:06 PM
"Fighting Big Tech Makes for Some Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Conservatives are showing up at largely liberal conferences to call for breaking up Facebook and Google. Liberals are going on conservative TV shows to do the same. It's awkward." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 1:45 PM
"Amazon's $700 Million Training Pledge Is Actually a Bargain: The retail giant may end up spending less per employee than the average organization." Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/13
"Facebook Reportedly Staring Down Barrel Of $5 Billion FTC Fine Over Privacy Violations" HotHardware 7/13
"Zuckerberg takes $5B fine in stride at 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'" New York Post 7/13
"Facial recognition bolstered by mass database scraping, but not from Apple" AppleInsider 7/13
"Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/13
Publications/Podcasts
"New Macs smackdown! [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 304] Cult of Mac 7/13
"Apple without Jony Ive, Services, and Current Macs, with John Kheit -ACM 518" The Mac Observer 7/13
"iMore show 665: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 7/12
"The Dalrymple Report: MacBooks, an old iPhone, and Apple Watch" The Loop 7/12
"Bryan Chaffin on A Post-Ive, Post-Ahrendts Apple, and Facebook's Cryptocurrency" MacVoices 7/12
"Apple's AR Glasses, HomeKit Hardware – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-12" The Mac Observer 7/12
"9to5Mac Daily: July 12, 2019 – Q2 Mac shipments, Apple's big TV budget" 9to5Mac 7/12
"9to5Mac Happy Hour 233: Apple shakes up the MacBook line, iOS 13 beta 3 and iPad rumors" 9to5Mac 7/12
"RIP Macbook, Zoom runs afoul of Apple & more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 7/12
"Big Mac updates! This week on, The CultCast" Cult of Mac 7/12
"Vergecast: new hardware from Nintendo and Apple" The Verge 7/12
"Apple's latest MacBook Pro looks exactly the same from the outside, but the company made a bunch of changes inside that you should know about if you're going to buy one" Business Insider 10:32 AM
"Apple's Futuristic AR Glasses Might Warp Scenery to Help the Visually Impaired" iDrop News 2:43 PM
"The new 1.4 GHz entry-level MacBook Pro is probably faster than you would expect" 9to5Mac 7/12
"This video is our best look yet at Apple's leaked iPhone 11R design" BGR 7/12
"Hope You Like Touch Bars: A MacBook Pro Teardown Story" iFixit 7/12
"Apple's Base 2019 MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals Bigger Battery, Worse Upgradability" HotHardware 7/12
"iOS URL Scheme Susceptible to Hijacking" TrendMicro 7/12
"The End of iTunes: Apple's New Mac Media Strategy Explained/Apple isn't really killing iTunes as much as setting it free." iMore 7/12
"Apple's AR smart glasses may have been cancelled" GearBrain 7/12
"Apple's AR glasses may be coming sooner than we think" Computerworld 7/12
"If iGlasses are truly on ice, Apple's 2020 will be dull but lucrative" VentureBeat 7/12
"Back to school 2019: should you choose Apple's Mac or an iPad" AppleInsider 7/12
"Apple's Mac Lineup Finally Make Sense" iPhone Hacks 7/12
Non-Apple
"Why absolutely everyone should be concerned about facial recognition" Mashable 1:28 PM
"The End of the Free Internet Is Near: The idea that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone has been turned on its head." Reason 7/13
"The FTC's $5 billion fine for Facebook is so meaningless, it will likely leave Zuckerberg wondering what he can't get away with" Business Insider 7/13
"The Toxic Potential of YouTube's Feedback Loop" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/13
"AT&T Does the Obvious Thing Its CEO Said It Wouldn't Do and Restricts Its Valuable Media Properties" Pixel Envy 7/12
"How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem" The Verge 7/12
"The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason: Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution." MIT Technology Review 7/12
"The best foldables are going to be widescreen: Because no one wants to watch YouTube on a square" The Verge 7/12
"This week's Apple trading strategies (7/15-7/19)" Apple 3.0 9:41 AM
"Get Ready To Buy Google, Apple, Facebook And Amazon" Forbes 7/12
"iPhone suppliers seeing solid revenues in run-up to 2019 models" AppleInsider 7/12
"Apple supplier Japan Display secures bailout after funding shortfall" Reuters 7/12
Industry News
"S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq close at record levels again as bulls bank on Fed rate cut: S&P 500 scores fourth straight day of gains" MarketWatch 7/12
"Dow Jones Romps 410 Points For The Week As S&P, Nasdaq Hit New Highs" Investor's Business Daily 7/12
"Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq post historic record setting week" FOXBusiness 7/12
"Stocks Close Out Week With More Gains: Oil prices also surged as markets show signs of strength while Fed postures for a rate cut" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
"Asian shares largely rise after Wall Street sets new records" Associated Press 7/12
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