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Apple’s Vice President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson announced today that she will be speaking at the Bay Area Women’s Summit next week on June 21st. The event is held in partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California and will be hosted at Moscone Center North. The purpose of the Bay Area Women’s Summit is to have a “conversation on advancing economic empowerment for women to ensure that they and their families succeed and thrive....

Apple has pushed the first beta build of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 out to AppleSeed users and developers. The update has a build number of 14C68k and weighs in at 422 MB. Last week the company released version 10.10.1 to the general public. Apple hasn’t provided any indications of what’s new in this beta and has not listed any particular focus areas, though it’s possible this could be a hotfix update to address any lingering Wi-Fi glitches that didn’t get fixed in the most recent patch....

Over the weekend, Apple shared four new ads holiday-themed ads for the Apple Watch. The ads originally debuted last month, but only hit Apple’s YouTube channel this weekend. The ads are shorter in style, coming in at between 10 to 15 seconds in length. The first ad is entitled “Go Play” and depicts the Apple Watch Sport being unboxed and worn during soccer, with the Activity app used for fitness tracking....

A new Apple support document lays out what to look for in third-party hardware to make use of the new fast charging feature for iPhone 8 and iPhone X. As we noted the day after Apple’s September event, the iPhone 8 and iPhone X both support some new ways to charge up your device. While more attention is focused on the new iPhones supporting wireless charging (although it’s quite slow), a potentially more handy feature for many will be fast charging support....

This is kinda interesting. Apple today released a seed of OSX 10.7.2 to developers. It is part of the iCloud download area. What happened to 10.7.1? Probably a bugfix update due in the next week or so. We’ll let you know what comes up in 10.7.2 but there’s a general feeling that this is where iCloud comes in. via BGR OSX Server hits the App Store but XCode disappears (9to5mac....

Apple today announced that it is holding a live HomePod question and answer session next week. The event will be held on its support forums, with specialists available during a four-hour window to answer Homepod-related questions. As first noticed by MacRumors, Apple specialists will be available via this live Q&A event between 11AM and 3PM PT next week on July 25th, 2018. The specialists will be offering tips on how to use AirPlay 2, create stereo pairs, and much more....

The release… SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — LG Display Co. has reached a long-term deal with Apple Inc. to supply flat panels to the iconic maker of computers, music players and smart phones. The contract between the two companies is for five years and calls for LG to receive an advance payment of $500 million sometime this month, the South Korean company said in a regulatory filing Monday. Seoul-based LG Display and Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, California, planned to decide later on details such as the number of panels LG will provide, LG said....

Qualcomm, which makes baseband communications chips for Apple and licenses 3G and 4G patents to other smartphone manufacturers, has been fined almost a billion dollars by the Chinese government in an anti-trust case. The company was found to have abused its dominant position in wireless chip technology by charging “unfairly high” licensing fees to manufacturers of smartphones and tablets. The 6B Yuan ($960M) fine is the largest fine ever imposed on a foreign company, reports the Guardian....

Apple is making it official: the company will hold a major product unveiling on October 27 where new Macs are expected to debut. The event will take place on Apple’s campus, likely marking the last one before Apple Campus 2 is open for business. The event is somewhat of a surprise as Apple opted not to hold two fall events last year and all signs pointed to the iPhone 7 event last month being the last before Apple moves into its new campus next year....

Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release. The latest to follow in the trend is award winning electronic music duo Daft Punk with a full length stream of the group’s 74-minute “Random Access Memories” album hitting iTunes earlier this week. While it’s often suggested the streams help to fight piracy of the albums before their release, we’ve discovered Apple is ironically making it easier than ever to grab a high quality version of the stream right from its website....

Apple has long been working with the Indian government to set up retail locations in the country, a task that’s rather challenging due to stringent regulation in the country. Now, The Economic Times reports that one concession Apple is fighting for in India is related labeling laws so it doesn’t have to print product info on devices. Currently, Indian law requires that certain product details be printed on the device itself, but Apple has asked that it be allowed to print the information on the iPhone’s packaging or somewhere in iOS....

Invitations to select members of the media and special guests indicate that the event will begin at 10 AM Pacific time/1 PM Eastern Time. As for the specs and features of the upcoming iPad Air 2, we’ve recently shared with you a story compiling pretty much all there is to know about it. At the launch event, Apple is expected to debut updates to its iPad and Mac lines. As always, the new versions of the iPad Air and the iPad mini will be slightly thinner, will featre a more efficient and faster A8 processor, a new M8 chip from the iPhone 6, Touch ID, enhanced camera features, an improved screen design, and gold color option....

. Patently Apple did what it does and dug up a patent related to building 3D avatars: This could be for GameCenter or a number of other areas where you would want to create an online personality. Interestingly, sole inventor Thomas Goossens of Apple Paris originally filed Apple’s patent application in Q3 2010. Before anyone says anything, those thin bezels around the iPad are likely because it is the simulator....

As part of Apple’s push for a greener environment, the company has changed up its physical signage outside Apple Stores around the world to celebrate Earth Day. The updated logos are mostly the same but the leaf section is tinted green. The celebration can be seen at Apple Stores worldwide. Apple has also put the Apple logo with the green adornments in some places online, such as on its YouTube account....

Alongside the newly-announced 12″ MacBook, Apple today announced its first collection of USB-C accessories designed to expand the abilities of the ultra-thin laptop’s single data and power port. The smallest is a USB-C to USB Adapter ($19), which converts the MacBook’s USB-C port to standard USB “to connect devices such as your flash drive or camera” or “a “USB cable for syncing and charging your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.” It supports USB 3....

Update: If you order an iPad Pro right now, Apple is quoting Friday delivery. The Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard accessories are already backordered at least 5-7 business days. Some customers are seeing same-day in-store pick up options for iPad Pro. In September Apple unveiled the long awaited larger iPad Pro to the public, and today customers can finally start placing orders for the 12.9-inch tablet before models hit stores later this week....

Today Apple made the rack-mountable Mac Pro available for purchase, starting at $6499. The unit, which features the same build to order components as the regular Mac Pro, features rack mounting rails that ship in a separate box. The base model rack mount Mac Pro comes with an 8-core Intel Xeon W CPU, 32GB of memory, a Radeon Pro 580X GPU, and 256GB of flash storage. A fully fleshed out Mac Pro with all of the fixings will set you back a cool $54,048....

Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able to locate a WiFi network, unable to join a network, and dropped or intermittent connections. If an Apple technician determines that an applicable Apple TV has these issues, the unit can be replaced as part of a replacement program that Apple has begun because of these WiFi issues....

As it normally does before earnings calls, Apple noted on its investor news webpage this evening that it will hold its fourth quarter earnings call on October 27th. The call will be held at the standard time of 2PM PT/5PM ET, with the earnings release itself being sent out roughly thirty minutes before then. This earnings call will be an important one for Apple and investors alike as it will provide the first look yet at early sales of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus....

From Electrek: Apple signed a deal this week to power to its Sparks, Nevada data center with possibly the cheapest contracted starting price for solar power in the US. The deal was signed with NV Energy, owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. The deal’s start price is 3.099¢/kWh with a 2% a year escalator making it very inexpensive energy. The size of the solar project is 50MW. Concurrently, NV Energy also signed two other solar power PPAs that might be the lowest overall price for solar power in the USA – 3....