
Want to see the Apple Watch in person, but the closest Apple Store is too far away? Head on over to your nearest Best Buy. That’s one of the headlines in this week’s news review. You can see all the important headlines here in this slideshow. Want to get more details on a story? Click on the link.

BuzzFeed’s unnamed sources confirm that the next-generation Apple TV will be slimmer, come with Apple’s A8 processor, include more built-in storage, and will have a better operating system.

The retailer’s customers will get to try out and buy 16 models of the Apple Watch, including the Sport and Watch models in both 38 millimeters and 42mm sizes, besides close to 50 accessories such as watch bands, screen shields, stands, and chargers.
Also: • Bravo to a healthier lifestyle! (Wristly) • Apple Debuts Three New Apple Watch Videos Highlighting Music, Fitness and Travel Apps (MacRumors) • Apple’s the No. 1 IoT company, despite not making any devices (Cult of Mac)

As part of the settlement, Nike is offering a $15 cash payment or $25 gift card to eligible FuelBand buyers who submit a claim.

Apple has been criticized for the curvaceous project being closed off…But the new public visitor’s center shows Apple is at least making a concession to the public’s great interest in the Spaceship
Also: • Apple dives into SoMa for first big S.F. real estate grab (San Francisco Business Times)

T-Mobile customers who buy an iPhone 6 by September 7 can get the next iPhone at no extra cost when they upgrade by the end of this year.

[Doug] Menuez’s photo shoot turned into a three-year project photographing the NeXT’s team’s mission to build a supercomputer to transform education.

Because the hospital could check his Apple Watch data, Robson did not have to wear a heart monitor for a week before the medical team at Scripps Mercy could confirm the diagnosis of sick sinus syndrome.
Also: • Businessman finds iPhone that fell out of plane during flight – and it still works (The Guardian)

Apple has reduced carbon emissions from its global corporate facilities, data centers and retail stores by 48%.
• Obama Administration War Against Apple and Google Just Got Uglier (The Intercept)

Apple’s use of Snapchat is important as the company doesn’t always embrace social media…but it matches Apple Music’s adoption of services including Tumblr as it pushes its new subscription music service to the world.
Also: • Apple Music racked up 10 million subscribers in less than a month (Macworld)

Could Tim Cook have gathered enough insight from visiting BMW last year to have a fleet of self-driving electric vehicles on the road by 2020 without help from a major carmaker?
Also: • Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, MirrorLink: Most 2016 Volkswagen cars will have all three (Greenbot)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to stay proceedings in Smartflash’s patent lawsuit against Apple, potentially paving the way for Smartflash claiming recalculated damages.

The supply chains started shipping Force Touch modules in small amounts for the new iPhone in June, and began ramping up the shipments in July.

“The iPhone is ubiquitous. [Guns are] on the iPhone as an option,” says NYAGV executive director Leah Barrett “We thought this was a way to bring attention to the issue [of gun violence].”

With so many IBM employees now in line to switch to Macs for their work machines, the stage is setting up for even more collaboration going forward.
Author: Roman Loyola, Senior Editor

Roman has covered technology since the early 1990s. His career started at MacUser, and he's worked for MacAddict, Mac|Life, and TechTV.