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August 11, 2014, 3:25 PM

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Inside Apple University, the company's highly secretive internal training program — Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

BuzzFeed raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz, valuing company at $850M; Chris Dixon to join board; most revenues come from creating ads for other brands — A Move to Go Beyond Lists for Content at BuzzFeed — Here are three completely crazy insights about BuzzFeed, the viral content start-up:

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Mat Honan / Wired:

If you ‘like’ everything on Facebook, brands and content mills will quickly replace humans in your News Feed — I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me — There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.”

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @joshelman, @joshconstine, @nickbilton, @peterstringer, @robpegoraro, @smc90, @jennydeluxe, @jessmisener, @caseyjohnston and @caseynewton. See also Mediagazer

GSMArena.com:

Possible images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak, show leather-like back and metal frame — Detailed images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak — Here's what the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 may look like. While looking very similar to the front of the current Note 3 the back and sides look new.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Broadwell is coming: A look at Intel's low-power Core M and its 14nm process — You were fabbed in the long summer; you've never known anything else. — Aurich Lawson — Last week I flew from New Jersey to Portland, Oregon, to get briefed by Intel PR reps and engineers …

More: Intel Newsroom, AnandTech, CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, PC World, ZDNet, eWeek, Inquirer, AnandTech and dailywireless.org

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft reignites Mac vs. PC conflict for new Surface Pro 3 ads — Microsoft is bringing the Mac vs. PC battle back with full force today. While the company targeted the MacBook Air at the launch of the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft's latest ads place both devices head-to-head.

More: BetaNews, AppleInsider, PC World, Slate, Daring Fireball, CNNMoney.com, CNET, GeekWire, Tech Times, MacRumors, BGR, iMagazin, Gotta Be Mobile, iMore, Softpedia News, Guardian, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Mashable, Associated Press, VentureBeat, TUAW and App Advice. Tweets: @reckless

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

Yo wants to be a communications protocol, plans ability to send links and connect to RSS feeds — An App Like Yo Could Turn Out to Be Bigger Than Twitter — It Makes Use of Alerts, the Most Valuable Property in the Media Universe — Few apps in history have been as controversial and polarizing as Yo.

Tweets: @kashhill, @robinwauters and @joshelman

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google is backing a new $300 million high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system between the US and Japan — Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google …

More: NEC Global, Urs Hölzle, TechCrunch, Engadget, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and dailywireless.org

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Square Targets Small Business With Launch Of Online Booking Tool “Square Appointments” — Continuing its expansion beyond mobile payments, Square this morning has rolled out Square Appointments, an online appointment booking service aimed at small businesses, like beauty and hair salons …

More: Square, The Next Web, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Engadget, Fortune, Gigaom, TechnoBuffalo and Mashable. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Acer's new Chromebook 13 runs on Nvidia's Tegra K1 CPU, comes with up to 13 hours of battery life, has Full HD display option, and starts from $279 — Acer's new Chromebook 13 offers a high-resolution screen and all-day battery life — The first Chromebook with Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor promises …

More: NVIDIA, Engadget, ZDNet, The Register, PC World, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, BetaNews and CNET

Tweets: @backlon and @joannastern

Nancy Scola / Washington Post:

White House launches Digital Service to institutionalize the process that fixed HealthCare.gov — White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm — President Obama participates in a live Twitter question and answer session in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Dec. 3, 2012.

More: The Next Web, The Hill, Gizmodo, The White House and WDIV-TV

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

OpenTable expands its in-app mobile payments to New York, promises 20 more cities before end of 2014 — OpenTable has been gently testing ways to integrate its reservation service more deeply with users' dining experiences by including in-app payment of checks for more than a year already …

More: OpenTable Blog, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechHive, VentureBeat and Ubergizmo

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

New Microsoft Project Turns Boring First-Person Videos Into Awesome Hyperlapses — There's barely a mountain biker, climber, skydiver or skier left who doesn't have a GoPro camera attached to his helmet. Nobody really wants to sit through an hour of video of you heading up and down the slopes, however.

More: Microsoft Research, The Verge, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Gizmodo, BGR, Next at Microsoft, Daring Fireball, TechHive, Neowin, The Next Web, TechSpot, prosthetic knowledge, Digital Trends, Engadget, WinBeta, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk, Fstoppers, BBC, Windows Phone Central, The Register, ExtremeTech and memeburn

Tweets: @peteratmsr and @monkbent

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

IBM whips out its checkbook to buy ID management specialist Lighthouse Security Group — Big Blue has apparently caught identity and access management fever, and is buying its second IAM specialist in three weeks. — Cloud is hot. Security is hot. Identity and access management (IAM) is hot.

More: VentureBeat, InfoWorld, Data Center Knowledge, SecurityWeek and ZDNet

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