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September 10, 2013, 9:20 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
iPhone Developers Won't Get Fingerprint-Reader Authentication Option — For Now, Anyway  —  Perhaps the most surprising thing about the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 5s is the fact that it can only be used to do two things — unlock the phone and verify iTunes purchases.
Brian Heater / Engadget:
iPhone 5s: 64-bit A7 processor, fingerprint authentication, improved camera, gold/silver/gray, from $199  —  Apple introduces the iPhone 5S, launching September 20th starting at $199  —  Ladies and gentleman, the moment you've all been waiting for.  As expected, this afternoon's day-brightening news …
Marcus Wohlsen / Wired:
Investors unimpressed with incremental iPhone improvements as Apple's stock falls 2.28%  —  Apple's Reputation for Innovation Is Now Its Greatest Liability  —  A year ago, Apple seemed unstoppable.  Its share price topped $700.  Its cash horde eclipsed the GDP of many countries.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Apple iPhone 5s hands-on video and impressions  —  As it turns out, everything that we'd seen from the rumors were true: the iPhone 5s is faster, of course, with a dual-LED flash and the much-vaunted fingerprint scanner on the home button.  And yes, it comes in a gold color …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S will both ship on September 20, iPhone 5 discontinued, and iPhone 4S goes free  —  At its event in Cupertino, Apple today announced the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S.  Both devices ship on September 20 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Apple's Touch ID: A 500ppi Fingerprint Sensor Built Into iPhone 5S Home Button  —  Remember those persistent rumors of a fingerprint sensor that would be baked into the iPhone 5S?  Well, it's not a rumor any longer — Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi fingerprint sensor right in the 5S's home button.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
iPhone 5c: improved front camera, slightly larger battery, in five colored plastic backs, from $99  —  Apple iPhone 5C is official, a plastic and colorful iPhone for $99  —  The new iPhone 5C is finally official.  After months of rumor and speculation, Apple has opted to introduce …
Apple:
Apple Introduces iPhone 5c—The Most Colorful iPhone Yet  —  All-New Design, Packed with Incredible Features in Five Gorgeous Colors  —  Apple® today introduced iPhone® 5c, featuring an all-new design, packed with incredible features in five gorgeous colors—blue, green, pink …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
iOS 7: what's changed since June?  —  What we're getting next week isn't exactly what we saw at WWDC  —  Apple's June preview of a huge redesign for iOS — its first since launching in 2007 — drew a fair amount of criticism.  Designers took to sites like Dribbble and Behance to show off their …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple Raises AppleCare+ Service Fees, Launches In Europe And Adds iPods  —  In conjunction with the announcement of two new models of iPhone today, Apple has also made several adjustments to its AppleCare+ coverage.  First of all, it has raised the service fees for accidental damage from $49 to $79 each visit.
Wall Street Journal:
DNI documents: NSA phone record searches between 2006 and 2009 violated privacy protections  —  NSA Violated Privacy Protections, Officials Say  —  Revelation Calls Into Question Security of Phone-Record Database  —  WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's searches …
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
Apple shows the LTE love, going for near global 4G support in the iPhone 5s and 5c  —  Apple isn't skimping on the radios for its new “budget” iPhone, the 5c.  At its official unveiling Apple said both it and the new 5s would support more LTE bands in than any other smartphone in the world.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel CEO announces 14-nanometer processors, predicts sub-$100 tablets  —  Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich showed off a laptop running on a 14-nanometer Intel system-on-a-chip processor today.  During his keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Krzanich also predicted that there will be tablets …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post  —  Green's original post.  —  Andrew Douglas, interim dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has apologized publicly today for asking one of his cryptography professors to remove a blog post critical …

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