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| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
Exclusive first look: Pics and video of the new Nexus 7 — The new Nexus 7 sports an updated look, adds a rear camera — Here we go, folks. The first probable pictures of what we believe is the long-awaited successor to the Nexus 7. We've had to do a little Photoshop surgery to protect the source …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
New Nexus 7 coming to retail outlets next week, according to documents (update: pricing and pics) — It appears that the rumored sequel to the Nexus 7 is close at hand, according to internal documents sent to us by an anonymous tipster. Apparently, the new device will be sold in stores alongside … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency — Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.
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| Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire: |
The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed — As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated.| James Risen / New York Times: |
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Nokia now sells more Lumias than BlackBerry sells phones — With this quarter's mixed financial results, Nokia revealed that Lumia sales were up to a record high of 7.2 million. That means that the company sold more Windows Phones last quarter than BlackBerry sold phones.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Nokia reports smaller $150 million loss in Q2 2013, Lumia sales up to 7.4 million — After BlackBerry's disastrous earnings a couple of weeks back, Nokia and Microsoft have clear bragging rights over third place in the ecosystem war — but does a bronze medal earn you any cash?
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Verizon adds 941,000 subscribers, activates 3.9 million iPhones during second quarter — Verizon has just released its financial report for the second quarter of this year, and unsurprisingly, it's another solid quarter for the largest carrier in the US. Verizon reports adding 941,000 …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Verizon's Q2 iPhone activations grow 44 percent to hit 3.9M, beating estimates of 3.5M — Verizon's iPhone activations in Q2 this year grew 44 percent to reach 3.9 million, beating analyst predictions of 3.5 million. The iPhone continued to be responsible for more than half of Verizon's sales.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
HTC One mini announced: Flagship looks, UltraPixel camera and 4.3-inch 720p display (hands-on) — Currently, the wireless industry's mantra is that good things come in large packages. But let's not just forget about the massive demographic of users that don't care about having the biggest phone on the planet.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Netflix gets its first Emmy nominations ever, for House of Cards and Arrested Development — Netflix hit a big milestone Thursday morning as its original drama House of Cards was nominated for nine Emmy awards and Arrested Development was nominated for three.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
New Office 365 subscriptions get 12 months of free Xbox Live Gold (but not in the US) — Sweetening the deal of its cloud-based Office 365 suite, Microsoft will start bundling a year of Xbox Live Gold with any purchases of Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 University made before September 28.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Dell Buyout Vote Delayed — No vote, no deal. More delay. — Dell shareholders didn't vote today on a proposal to take the company private in a leveraged buyout. The meeting of shareholders at which the proposal was to be considered has been adjourned without the vote taking place …
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
Android vs. iPhone: Why Apple still has the edge over Google's operating system — Android is a wonderful operating system. But most Android phones are crap. — Six years ago, Google launched an unconventional effort to gain a toehold in the growing smartphone business.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands — Encryption is being tested to armor user files stored on Google Drive, sources say, a move that could curb surveillance attempts by the U.S. and other governments. — Google has begun to experiment … | Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Tumblr Is Pushing Porn Into an Internet Sex Ghetto — Since Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer began circling around Tumblr's billion dollar GIF vortex, we wondered what it'd do with the nasty stuff: the dog sex, the rape porn. Or even the more mild takes on f**king. Now we're starting to see: porn gets put where no one can find it.
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Gizmodo, Colbert Nation, The Verge, TechCrunch and AllThingsD
| Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online: |
The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping — The newest NSA leaks reveal that governments are probing “the Internet's backbone.” How does that work? — In the early 1970's, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off …
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
“Everybody has got a smartphone” — ... says UBS analyst John Hodulik, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. — No they haven't. — According to the latest comScore survey data, 98 million Americans above the age of 13 don't use a smartphone as their primary phone. That's 41% of US mobile phone users.
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Fortune and Yahoo! News
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Adobe Social update brings predictive publishing and integration with Foursquare, Instagram and LinkedIn — Adobe today launched its updated social marketing platform. With this release, Adobe Social is now featuring social predictive publishing capabilities, a new mobile interface …
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TechCrunch, CMSWire.com, Business Wire and Marketing Land
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter's Mobile Update Can Keep Your Sensitive Eyes Safe From Sexy Tweets — No one wants to look at porn in a tweet. (At least, not without expecting it first.) — That's likely part of why Twitter introduced its latest little safety tweak in the last mobile update for iOS and Android …
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The Next Web and CNET
| Patrick Hoge / bizjournals: |
PandoDaily steps in it — PandoDaily, a tech news site launched last year with money from prominent Silicon Valley venture backers, published an inaccurate story July 2 stating that L.A.-based consumer goods startup BeachMint had “ousted” its founders and would be returning $20 million to investors.
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Los Angeles Times and Business Insider. Tweets: @joekgreen, @joannapantages, @jason_pontin, @mcarney, @alexia, @realdanlyons, @dmjreports, @jason_pontin, @abrams and @abrams. See also Mediagazer
| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
Ouya Plans $1 Million Kickstarter Matching Campaign to Encourage Exclusive Titles — Starting next month, Ouya will match some of the Kickstarter funds raised by games for its Android-powered console. — The developer-aimed “Free the Games Fund” will dole out $1 million to eligible Ouya game projects …
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Digits, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget
| The Physics arXiv Blog: |
Edit Wars Reveal The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia — An analysis of the most highly contested articles on Wikipedia reveals the controversies that appear invariant across languages and cultures — Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia that anybody can edit, is one of the more extraordinary collective efforts of the crowd.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Chrome for iOS adds improved Google apps integration, ‘experimental’ data compression — Google has just released a fairly significant update for Chrome on iOS. Now available in the App Store, the latest version introduces some anticipated features like fullscreen browsing on iPad and access … Sponsor Posts
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