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August 11, 2014, 10:50 PM

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Bloomberg:
Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating  —  Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
Erica Fink / CNNMoney.com:
Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October  —  Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides  —  Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals.
Nancy Scola / Washington Post:
With former Google manager at the helm, the White House launches “US 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 …
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.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Paid $134 Million for Gnip  —  Twitter pulled back the curtain on the financial details of its Gnip acquisition on Monday.  The total: $134 million in stock and cash for the Boulder, Colorado-based startup.  The package, outlined in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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 …
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.”
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.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Skully AR-1 smart motorcycle helmet launches on Indiegogo, with heads-up-display, GPS, rear-view camera, for $1,399  —  The Skully Smart Motorcycle Helmet Sharpens Your Senses On The Road  —  The stats around motorcycle safety in the United States are pretty bleak, but the folks at Skully …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Revises User Metrics To Show Larger Ad Pool, Fewer Bot Users  —  Investors loved Twitter's numbers last quarter, except for one metric that raised eyebrows.  Now Twitter has revised that metric, and added another.  Net result: Twitter says its user numbers are better than they looked a couple weeks ago.
Kevin Collier / The Kernel:
An interview with convicted LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond on how he got caught by the FBI  —  The fall of the FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal  —  On an unseasonably cold Saturday afternoon in March 2012, Jeremy Hammond, one of the most destructive hackers in American history …
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 …

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