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Apple has released iOS 8 beta 2 three weeks after releasing the first beta to developers at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California on June 2nd. The second beta is available now as an OTA update or through Apple's development portal. The new beta features mostly bug fixes. Check out the full iOS 8 beta 2 changelog below.

Apple is expected to launch iOS 8 alongside its next-generation iPhone and rumored iWatch this fall. iOS 8 will bring a host of new features to Apple products including Apple's Health app, improvements to messaging, an App Store Family Sharing option and more.

Netflix subscribers can enjoy a brand new interface thanks to a refresh of the universal iOS app. iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users running iOS 6.0 or later can install version 6.0 of Netflix free of charge. In addition to bug fixes, the update includes a redesigned icon for iOS 7.

Faster startup for video playback is one of the improvements listed by Netflix under the app description in iTunes. Netflix members can instantly watch thousands of shows and movies from anywhere with connectivity on their iOS devices.

Since the iPhone 6 was first announced, mockups and purported photos of prototypes and cases have been popping up on a weekly basis. As the launch date nears, many of the rumored details and specs are becoming more certain and recent mockups reflect them. Two of the latest images come from Japanese site weekly.ascii.jp and Korean site Seeko.

The photos from both sites show what appears to be the standard 4.7" model iPhone 6 (the iPhone 5 is 4"). They show a slimmer handset, which aligns with rumors that the iPhone 6 will be somewhere between 6.5 and 7.0 mm thick, as opposed to the current iPhone, which is 7.6 mm thick. They also show a slightly

A few weeks have passed since Apple's iOS 8 preview giving developers plenty of time to dig around and discover new features in the beta. Several sources have found a "Recently Deleted” album in the Camera app. The folder allows users to access their deleted photos and recover images or videos they accidentally deleted.

The ability to hide individual photos was also previously discovered in the Photos app. Users can now tap and hold a thumbnail or image to bring up the "Hide Photo" option. So far you can only keep images hidden from the Moments, Collections and Years albums.

Due to criticism of its recent lack of innovativeness in marketing, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has decided to start its own marketing division. The company has already hired a lot of talent recently, including Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts and branding agency Wolff Olins CEO Karl Heiselman among others, all of whom could prove valuable to a marketing team. For now, the in-house team will compete with long time marketing partner TBWA/Media Arts Lab.

Following the stock split, investment bank RBC Capital Markets last week raised its price target to $100 per share, which puts it near the company's all time high of $100.30. This is up from its previous price target of $96.