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August 21, 2014, 9:20 AM

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Ina Fried / Re/code:
Verizon Says It Has No Plans for Another App Store  —  Verizon threw cold water Wednesday on a report that it was in talks to set up another app store.  —  The Information reported that Verizon was talking with would-be partners about a marketplace designed to rival the Google Play storefront.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day  —  In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices.  —  These requests have increased dramatically since Google began making the data public.
More: 9to5Google and Engadget
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another  —  There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else.  The first is making exorbitant amounts of money.  The second is pretending they don't care about that money.
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
The state of Android updates: Who's fast, who's slow, and why  —  Android 4.4, KitKat was released on October 31, 2013, or at least, that's what you can say about one device: the Nexus 5.  For the rest of the ecosystem, the date you got KitKat—if you got KitKat—varied wildly depending on your device, OEM, and carrier.
More: Guardian and BGR
Steven Norris / Gearburn:
Savvy Imgur user builds working 1KB hard drive inside ‘vanilla’ Minecraft  —  Imgur user smellystring has officially changed my view of Minecraft - and he'll change yours as well.  Below is a fully functional 1KB hard drive, created within Minecraft and it's incredible.
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
UPS Store Computer Breach Put Customer Data at Risk  —  United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said a breach of computer systems at UPS Store retail outlets may have exposed customers' personal and payment data at some locations this year.  —  Malware was found at 51 locations in 24 states …
Nellie Bowles / Re/code:
Secret Users Have Started Hosting Secret Dinner Parties, and They Are Brutal  —  Secret dinner party, said the intriguing post on Secret, an anonymous sharing app.  —  Invitations were application only, the host wrote in the comments.  As instructed, I used an anonymous account to submit my best secret to a Google doc.

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