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Congress wants to read Tim Cook’s emails for antitrust investigation

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Tim shows off the hilarious memes he's forwarded to friends. (Possibly.)
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House Judiciary Committee leaders want Tim Cook to turn over his emails and other information as part of a possible antitrust investigation.

Cook is one of dozens of executives from Apple, Facebook, Google parent company Alphabet and Amazon named in the request. It follows increased scrutiny of Apple, particularly surrounding the way that it runs the App Store — and possible conflicts of interest that result.

Google agrees to pay France $1.1 billion to end tax investigation

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Google is the latest tech giant to be fined in France.
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Google will pay a total of $1.1 billion to end a four-year probe into its tax activities in France. This is a combination of fine and repayment of additional taxes Google didn’t pay first time around.

France and Germany have both pushed for tighter tax regulations of multination tech giants. Others — Apple included — have been charged in the past. They may have to stump up more cash in the future, too.

iOS 13 flaw exposes all your contacts data

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Keep your iPhone close by.
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A newly-discovered flaw in iOS 13 lets anyone access your contacts without your passcode.

It takes just a few simple steps to bypass your iPhone’s lockscreen and see every phone number, email address, and physical address you have saved. But a fix is already on the way.

3D Touch disappears, and that’s great for people who love it [Opinion]

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Without the sacrifice of 3D Touch, this wouldn't be possible on iPad.
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I love 3D Touch. I use it all the time. It’s one of the handiest shortcuts on the iPhone. And now, with the iPhone 11, it’s gone. But I don’t care. Why? Because Haptic Touch is almost as good. Even better, thanks to Apple’s switch to Haptic Touch, you can use all those 3D Touch features on the iPad.

The most expensive iPad Pros just got a big price cut

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Does anyone really need 1TB of storage?
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Apple quietly changed the pricing on its most expensive models of the 12.9-inch and 11-inch iPad Pro yesterday while everyone else was drooling at the iPhone 11’s price tag.

Customers in the market for the 1TB storage option on either iPad Pro now get $200 off the original prices — but they remain far from cheap.

Bill Gates reveals what he envied most about Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, rivals and friends.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, rivals and friends.
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Tim Cook isn’t the only tech icon with something big coming out on September 20.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is the subject of a new Netflix documentary series that premieres on iPhone 11 launch day. Inside Bill’s Brain connects chapters of Gates’ personal life with his philanthropic work. Gates does more than other tech luminaries to make the world a better place. Still, he says there’s one skill Steve Jobs possessed that would prove immensely helpful for his current work.

iPadOS won’t launch until well after iOS 13

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Apple CEO Tim Cook talked up new features in iPadOS 13 at yesterday’s press event..
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iOS 13 will debut next week, but tablet users will have to wait a bit longer for the iPad equivalent. Apple says iPadOS 13 won’t debut until the end of this month.

That launch date suggests that the company will go straight to iOS 13.1.

HomePod will get smarter (and more chill) this fall

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HomePod is getting some nifty new features.
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Apple didn’t mention HomePod during yesterday’s iPhone 11 event — but it certainly didn’t forget about it, either.

Following the keynote, Apple quietly updated HomePod’s webpage. In doing so, it added exciting details about improvements being lined up for Apple’s smart speaker this fall.

macOS Catalina will launch much later than usual

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The writing is on the wall for the macOS Catalina launch date.
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Apple has a long habit of unveiling new macOS versions in June, beta testing them all summer, then releasing them in September. Not this year.

Turns out Mac owners will have to wait until next month.