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November 4, 2012, 7:00 PM

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Teardown Shows Apple iPad Mini Costs at Least $188 to Build — Apple's latest addition to the iPad family of tablets, the iPad mini, hit store shelves yesterday. Among the many standing in lines around the world to buy the devices were people who took them home to drop them and dunk them in water.

More: parislemon, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Examiner, Gizmodo UK, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo.com Updates, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, CNET and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@heyheyesj

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Two More Teardowns Look Inside Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle Fire HD — You have to credit the folks over at research firm IHS, because, apparently, they've pulling a little bit of overtime. Along with the teardown of Apple's iPad mini, the results of which they sent to AllThingsD yesterday …

More: parislemon, Neowin and Gizmodo.com Updates

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to bring movie ticket purchasing to Siri with upcoming iOS 6.1 update — Apple's upcoming release of iOS 6.1 will include a new feature for Siri: the ability to get movie tickets. The feature, according to developers who are beta testing the new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, works via Fandango.

More: CNET and iPhone Hacks

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

New Twitter policy lets users see tweets pulled down for copyright — Twitter has made a significant shift in how it responds to copyright complaints. In the past, such complaints caused tweets to vanish without a trace but now people can see the place where a tweet once stood — and the reaction to its disappearance.

More: The Verge, The Next Web and Gizmodo.com Updates. Tweets: @jer. See also Mediagazer

Michael Noer / Forbes:

One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education — The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard …

More: Washington Post

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Spanish retailer suspends plan to sell the Nexus 4 as LG hikes its retail price by hundreds of euros — Spanish mobile phone retailer Phone House has announced on its Facebook page that it is suspending plans to sell Google's new Nexus 4 after it learned that manufacturer LG is to sell …

More: 9to5Google. Tweets: @panzer

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Lady Gaga fansite, NBC entities defaced in pre-Guy Fawkes Day hacker stunt — A number of pages on the NBC.com website were defaced Sunday with a reference to Guy Fawkes Day and a claim that user names and passwords for the site had been compromised. The defacement appears to be the work …

More: Deadline.com, ZDNet, CNET, Betabeat, DVICE, Mashable!, Geekosystem and The Verge

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy — If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it's over now. — To document the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the northeast …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE and The Next Web

Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:

Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia — Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.

More: The Verge, The Verge, Gizmodo.com Updates and Gizmodo UK. See also Mediagazer

Sim Ahmed / Computerworld:

Dotcom pledges to resurrect international cable project — Kim Dotcom has announced his intention to invest in a second internet cable connecting New Zealand to the world. Dotcom told Computerworld that the move isn't out of charity towards New Zealanders who are currently reliant …

More: TVNZ, The Register, Guardian, New Zealand Herald, Geekosystem, Sky News Australia, Stuff.co.nz, Neowin and Gizmodo Australia

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

How the internet economy works: Guns, butter and bandwidth — Most people know certain things about the Internet. They know that cables run under the sea, that wires come into your homes, and that modems carry the digital signals to your devices. — But they've probably never heard …

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

Apple's mea culpa: U.K. site posts apology, new statement — After testing a British court's patience with a not so apologetic public statement, the iPhone and iPad maker is finally eating humble pie. — Apple has reissued and updated its Samsung “apology” statement on its British Web site …

More: The Next Web, Apple, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Network World, The Next Web, Examiner, GadgeTell, SlashGear, Geekosystem, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks and Forbes

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

With lights back on, cell service returns for many Sandy victims — Wireless phone service is quickly being restored to millions of customers after commercial power companies restore electricity to thousands of customers in hard hit areas after Superstorm Sandy.

More: AT&T Cell Phones …, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Con Edison of New York, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Metropolis and Slashdot

Wall Street Journal:

Outages Expose Wireless Carriers' Backup Plans

More: Metropolis, TechNewsDaily.com and Forbes

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