"Apple's Heir Apparent Is Much More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs: Jeff Williams co-created the Apple Watch and runs the company's global operations. Can he also handle design—and everything else?" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:12 AM
"Apple Hires Tesla Engineer With Interior Design Experience: Apple Inc. has hired Steve MacManus, at least the third Tesla Inc. engineering executive to join the Cupertino, California-based technology giant in the last year." Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:09 PM
"Apple poaches Tesla engineering VP for 'Senior Director' role as Project Titan future remains unclear" 9to5Mac 3:11 PM
"Apple Hires Former Tesla Engineering VP With Expertise in Car Interiors" MacRumors 3:11 PM
"Apple Stock Will Rise on Improving iPhone Demand in China, Analyst Says" Barron's [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12:19 PM
"Apple is poised to lose lots of iPhone users if it keeps ignoring the middle: Less people are buying premium phones, so why is Apple still putting all of its eggs in one basket?" Macworld 8:16 AM
"Apple Shuts Hong Kong Stores Early as Fears of Lawlessness Rise: Concern grows over the impact of social turmoil on the city's economy" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:31 AM
"Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel's Smartphone-Modem Chip Business: IPhone maker would pay $1 billion or more for Intel patents, staff" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:30 PM
"Apple in 'advanced talks' to absorb Intel's mobile modem business" AppleInsider 5:31 PM
"Warning over critical security flaw in VLC Media Player: Exploits expected to emerge within days to take advantage of 9.8-rated critical security flaw in VLC Media Player" Computing 1:20 PM
"VLC Player Critical Security Does Not Affect Macs (we Think)" The Mac Observer 1:22 PM
"Apple rolls out macOS 10.14.6 with bug & security fixes" AppleInsider 12:16 PM
"Apple Releases macOS Mojave 10.14.6 With Apple News+ Improvements and Multiple Bug Fixes" MacRumors 12:20 PM
"macOS Mojave: Apple releases 10.14.6 update" Macworld 1:38 PM
"Apple Releases macOS Mojave 10.14.6 with Apple News+ Features, Combo Download Available" The Mac Observer 8:44 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Apple Releases Mac Security Update 2019-004 for Sierra and High Sierra" The Mac Observer 8:46 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Microsoft To-Do review: Finally check that new Mac to-do app off your list/Complete with color-coded lists, themes, the ability to break tasks into manageable steps, sharing lists or tasks, and file attachments up to 25MB each." Macworld 8:15 AM
"How to create a macOS 10.15 Catalina USB installer" iDownload Blog 12:19 PM
"CIRP: iPhone XR is now the 'principal' iPhone model" Apple World Today 3:51 PM
"iPhone XR nearly half of recent US iPhone sales ahead of iPhone 11 launch" 9to5Mac 3:51 PM
"iPhone XR tops US iPhone sales during June quarter as 2019 models loom" AppleInsider 5:31 PM
"Bloomberg: $10,000-Plus 18-Karat Gold Apple Watch Edition Sales Fizzled After Just Two Weeks" MacRumors 9:26 AM
"One-third of U.S. iPhones use Apple Pay as mobile payments go mainstream" Apple Must 12:14 PM
"Loyalty Is Waning Among iPhone Users [Infographic] Forbes 8:08 AM
"It's 20 years since Apple's first consumer laptop, and the launch of Wi-Fi [Video] 9to5Mac 8:14 AM
"Apple's Fancy Photo Relighting Option Could Soon Be a Feature On Even the Cheapest Smartphones" Gizmodo 3:59 PM
"Apple shaded by Nintendo Switch in Prime Day searches" Cult of Mac 8:14 AM
"A behind the scenes look at the house that Steve Jobs built – but it's not Apple" San Francisco Business Times 9:26 AM
Non-Apple News
"Apple iPhone supplier LG pumping $2.6B into Korean OLED production" AppleInsider 9:07 PM
"Redmi Shows Off Pixelicious Photo Sample Of World's First 64MP Smartphone Camera" HotHardware 3:52 PM
"Trump: 'We will have to find out' about Huawei's relationship with North Korea" Reuters 11:43 AM
"Delivery apps like DoorDash are using your tips to pay workers' wages: Extending the predatory practice of tipped wages into the app economy" The Verge 8:17 AM
"The Pixel 4 May Have Better Face-sensing Tech Than the iPhone XS" Digital Trends 8:34 AM
"Google Will Pay You Up To $150K If You Can Break It" Forbes 8:11 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"9to5Mac Daily: July 22, 2019 – iOS 12.4 released, microLED Apple Watch rumors" 9to5Mac 3:59 PM
"Road to Macstock -Mike Potter's Pre-Event Update" The MUG Center 2:17 PM
"Apple Display Tech, Entry-Level iPhones – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-22" The Mac Observer 1:22 PM
"You Don't Get to Change Your Mind about The Past in the Future – Mac Geek Gab Podcast 771" The Mac Observer 7:52 AM
"Apple deepens control over supply chain" DigiTimes [Subscription Required for Full Article] 8:21 AM
"Report: Apple to switch from OLED to microLED displays in Apple Watch as soon as next year" 9to5Mac 8:13 AM
"Report: Apple Watch Switching to MicroLED in 2020" PC Magazine 11:43 AM
"2020 iPhones Could Feature Fast 120Hz 'ProMotion' Displays" MacRumors 8:13 AM
"Apple's slick, smooth iPad Pro screen tech may come to 2020 iPhone" Digital Trends 8:34 AM
"Apple releases iOS 12.4, watchOS 5.3, macOS 10.14.6, and more: Apple News+ quality-of-life improvements are front and center as well." Ars Technica 9:10 PM
"iOS 13: Everything that's new with augmented reality/Apple may or may not still be developing an AR headset, but the latest features in ARKit 3 show it's still committed to augmented reality." Macworld 8:16 AM
"watchOS 5.3 and iOS 12.4 will restore Walkie-Talkie service after Apple Watch vulnerability discovered" 9to5Mac 12:16 PM
"It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump/20 WebKit flaws among latest batch of bug fixes" The Register 9:12 PM
"Bloomberg: Apple Sold 'Low Tens of Thousands' of Gold Watches" Pixel Envy 9:11 PM
"WSJ: Apple Planning To Buy Intel's Modem Business" Six Colors 8:52 PM
"Apple and Samsung smartwatches look utterly boring next to this company's crazy new design" BGR 3:11 PM
"9 small changes coming to the iPhone later this year that will greatly improve how you use your phone" Business Insider 12:20 PM
"Apple Music's Excel Graveyard: Where Your Favorite Songs Go to Die/I tried accessing my favorite songs on Apple Music. A week, two Zip files, and one spreadsheet later, I found them." Vice 12:19 PM
"Jeff Williams might be Apple's next Tim Cook" Cult of Mac 11:36 AM
"iPhone 2020: The rumors so far" Computerworld 10:50 AM
"Six reasons watchOS 6 is amazing" iDownload Blog 10:44 AM
"Forget all the Netflix doom and gloom – it's Apple, Disney, and even HBO that should be worried now" BGR 10:01 AM
"Apple's Touch Bar doesn't have to be so terrible" The Loop 8:36 AM
"Cassandra -Online Image Conversions by FaceApp and More: Who Owns What and Should We Care" eXtensions 8:24 AM
Non-Apple
"How the FTC let Mark Zuckerberg off the hook" Mashable 2:21 PM
"5 details about AdBlock Plus you should know: It's complicated. Eyeo, which makes the top ad blocker, is also an ally of online advertising." CNET 10:46 AM
"Social Media Has Primed Us For An Eventual Surveillance State" Forbes 8:08 AM
"Microsoft Pays $25 Million to End U.S. Probe Into Bribery Overseas" Bloomberg 9:13 AM
"Microsoft to pay $26 million to settle claims of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" BetaNews 11:35 AM
"Microsoft agrees to $25m settlement to end probe" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:08 AM
"Microsoft to pay $25m to DOJ and SEC in Hungary bribery and kickback case: Microsoft to pay $8,751,795 to the DOJ, and $16,565,151 to the SEC." ZDNet 3:17 PM
"Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded company that's trying to build human-like artificial intelligence" Business Insider 8:23 AM
"With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:26 AM
"Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership" TechCrunch 8:54 AM
"Microsoft gives OpenAI $1 billion for artificial general intelligence" Mashable 11:36 AM
"How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts" PCWorld 8:07 AM
"IBM gives cancer-killing drug AI project to the open source community" ZDNet 7:48 AM
"IBM: A Worse Quarter Than It Initially Appears" Seeking Alpha 8:08 AM
"IBM given AU$95.5m to deliver initial design for Defence ERP program: The contract will see Big Blue provide system integrator services to deliver the design phase of the ERP program." ZDNet 9:07 PM
"Intel's Core i7-1065G7 laptop processor beats the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X in single core performance" TechRadar UK 8:49 AM
"Intel, SAP extend tech partnership" IT Online 8:52 AM
"Testing AMD's new Radeon Anti-Lag Feature" TechSpot 8:49 AM
"AMD plans to unleash a new threadripper to compete with Cascade Lake-X in October" OptoCrypto 8:50 AM
"AMD Threadripper 3: Everything we know so far" Digital Trends 12:30 PM
"AMD exec: Nvidia fell for our double bluff" Ars Technica 5:29 PM
"Atlantis, The Palm, selects Dell Technologies to modernise its IT environment" Intelligent CIO 8:47 AM
"Partners shine for Dell Technologies in South Asia" ChannelAsia 8:48 AM
"'Polarising' Oracle and 'disjointed' IBM remain cloud also-rans" iTNews Australia 8:45 AM
"Cisco in talks to acquire security startup Signal Sciences" CRN Australia 8:43 AM
"Revealed: CISCO's Group CIO places customers at the center of digital strategy" The Economic Times 8:45 AM
"Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech" The Register 8:07 AM
"Chipmakers stepping up transition to 96-layer 3D NAND process" DigiTimes 8:22 AM
"Morgan Stanley hikes AAPL to $247, says investors are unnecessarily negative" AppleInsider 3:11 PM
Industry News
"Stocks close higher on back of tech rally; Apple shares boost the Dow: Apple shares rally after Morgan Stanley raises price target" MarketWatch 3:58 PM
"Stocks End Higher at Start of Tech-Heavy Earnings Week, Oil Prices Rise: Stocks end higher Monday as investors prepare for a week of earnings reports and try to read the Federal Reserve's thinking on interest rates." TheStreet 3:58 PM
"Dow Jones Up, These Chip Stocks Give Nasdaq Oomph; 4 Big Cap Stocks To Watch Now" Investor's Business Daily 3:58 PM
"Stocks trade in tight range ahead of week full of earnings" FOXBusiness 3:57 PM
"Stocks Inch Higher at Start of Busy Week: Investors prepare for deluge of economic data and earnings reports" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:57 PM
"Asian shares mostly fall as new stock market debuts in Shanghai: Nikkei, Hang Seng slip, but STAR market pops in first day of trading" MarketWatch 8:41 AM
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