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July 5, 2013, 11:00 PM

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Andrew Leonard / Salon:
AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play  —  The hugely popular browser extension charges a fee from big advertisers such as Google to let some ads go through  —  If you use AdBlock Plus to keep your Web browsing experiencing free of annoying clutter, this is the kind of tweet that might grab your attention:
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
FCC officially approves Softbank buyout of Sprint and Sprint buyout of ClearWire  —  As previously rumored, the FCC has officially approved Softbank's purchase of Sprint and, furthermore, Sprint's purchase of the rest of ClearWire.  Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and commissioner Ajit Pai …
Cody Toombs / Android Police:
Falcon Pro Updates To v2.0.4 Outside Of The Play Store, Now Supports A Way To Blatantly Skirt Twitter's Token Limit  —  Falcon Pro users have had a front-row seat to quite a bit of drama over the last few months.  The events started when the app struck its 100,000 user token limit …
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
‘Restore The 4th’ galvanizes over 100 nation-wide protests against NSA, PRISM, and government spying  —  “Stop the surveillance!  Restore the fourth amendment!”  —  It's the largest online protest since SOPA.  And perhaps an even larger offline protest, as protestors galvanized by the Restore …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Newly Published Apple Mapping Patent Details Route Feedback System, Real-Time Accident Reporting  —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has published an Apple patent application that pertains to expanded mapping features, including real-time crowd-sourced traffic information …

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