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August 22, 2014, 8:00 AM

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Reiji Murai / Reuters:

iPhone 6 display panel redesign delayed production, impact on launch uncertain — Exclusive: Apple iPhone 6 screen snag leaves supply chain scrambling — (Reuters) - Suppliers to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are scrambling to get enough screens ready for the new iPhone 6 smartphone as the need …

More: iMore, Re/code, Inquirer, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Verge and Business Insider

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise — Michael Daniel is the White House's cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent interview with GovInfoSecurity …

More: GovInfoSecurity, Gizmodo, Engadget, ITProPortal, SlashGear and The Register

Tweets: @edfelten, @dangillmor, @al3x, @ryan, @qthrul, @rickgivens, @csoghoian, @markrussinovich, @grummz, @digiphile and @alex

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

A federal court rejects Aereo's request to argue it's a cable company — Aereo's seemingly last-ditch argument to save itself won't be given an airing in court, according to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. — Instead, if the shuttered streaming video company wants to keep fighting for its survival …

More: Bloomberg, CNET, Electronista, TechCrunch and USA Today. See also Mediagazer

Malathi Nayak / Reuters:

Ouya partners with Xiaomi to bring its games to the Chinese smartphone maker's streaming boxes and smart TVs — Exclusive: Ouya scores Xiaomi partnership to take games to China — (Reuters) - U.S video game service Ouya is turning to Asia to capture the growth that has eluded the startup on its own home turf.

More: The Next Web, TechSpot, Tech in Asia, CNET, Develop Feed, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Central and Gamasutra

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th — Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th …

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple removes Secret app from Brazilian App Store for not conforming with local laws — Following a recent ruling that Apple would have ten days to remove the anonymous social app Secret from its Brazilian App Store, Apple has complied with the order. The justification for the removal …

More: Ubergizmo, The Next Web, MacNN, App Advice, AppleInsider and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google to include temporary steering wheel and pedal system when testing autonomous cars in response to new California DMV rules — A Google Car Without a Steering Wheel? Not So Fast, California Says — Google caused a stir earlier this year when it unveiled a self-driving car without …

More: Gizmodo, Guardian, Ars Technica, Connectedly, The Next Web, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Engadget, SlashGear and 9to5Google

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Majority Of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place In Mobile Apps — U.S. users are now spending the majority of their time consuming digital media within mobile applications, according to a new study released by comScore this morning. That means mobile apps, including the number 1 …

More: comScore, Inc., The Atlantic Online, Re/code, Forbes, Music Ally, Beyond Devices, Talking New Media, Marketing Land and Digital Music News. Tweets: @craigmod. See also Mediagazer

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

Mobile apps could be abused to make expensive phone calls — A security precaution skipped in mobile applications such as Facebook's Messenger could be abused to make an expensive phone call at a victim's expense, a developer contends. — Phone numbers often appear as links on a mobile device.

More: algorithm.dk, Gizmodo and Neowin

Tweets: @ashk4n, @j0hnnyxm4s, @neculaesei and @ashk4n

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time — By now, you might have heard that Atlantic Media's Andrew Golis is incubating a small social network inside the company. Golis came to Atlantic Media as entrepreneur-in-residence a little over a year ago …

Tweets: @yingworld, @laura_warne, @jaredbkeller, @jeremymbarr, @nadinegoff and @agolis

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Wikipedia blocks edits from Congressional IP address again after edits from “obvious transphobe” — ‘Orange is the New Black’ fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban — For the third time this summer, computers in the House have been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a string of controversial edits.

More: Ars Technica, The Week Magazine, The A.V. Club, Engadget, The Raw Story, Mashable, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Styleite and Mediaite. Tweets: @piper. See also Mediagazer

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Holtzbrinck Ventures trades its stakes in 7 Rocket Internet startups for a direct 2.5% stake in the incubator itself — There we go again: German tech startup incubator Rocket Internet has announced yet another new investor, as its longtime partner in crime Holtzbrinck Ventures is receiving a 2.5% stake.

More: TechCrunch, Rocket Internet press releases and Webrazzi

Allie Jones / Gawker:

After Twitter suspensions, ISIS moves to decentralized Diaspora to avoid censorship — ISIS Finally Finds a Social Network That Can't Suspend Their Accounts — After ISIS militants and supporters disseminated video and images of James Foley's brutal beheading on Tuesday …

More: The diaspora* blog, BBC, PC Pro, VPN Creative, Channel 4, RYOT News, ITProPortal, Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, Business Insider and Guardian. See also Mediagazer

NBC News:

Flappy Bird creator launches Swing Copters, available for iPhone and Android, for free — ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen Launches New Game ‘Swing Copters’ - NBC News — The creator of the ultra-difficult game sensation, “Flappy Bird,” has released a new title — and believe it or not, it's even harder.

More: BGR, Know Your Mobile, Develop Feed, Rolling Stone, NDTV Gadgets, Tech2, The Next Web and Gotta Be Mobile

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Google updates voice search, allows users to automatically switch between five languages — Google's Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual — Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20 percent of the population speaks …

More: Inside Search, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, Android Police, Ubergizmo and Android Beat

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

FDA approves AliveCor's heart arrhythmia-detecting app algorithm — Above: AliveCor's ECG app. — While the step counters and run tracker apps of the world get most of the attention, a growing number of apps in the marketplace are serving serious clinical needs.

More: Engadget, empr.com, Computerworld, mobihealthnews, The Medical News and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @rabois

Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

Zoosk debuts Photo Verification on iOS to confirm authenticity of profile photos — This Dating Site Is Teaching the Internet an Important Lesson About Anonymity — Online dating site Zoosk is rolling out a new feature that lets users verify the authenticity of profile pictures.

More: Zoosk, PC Magazine and AskMen

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware — The Internet of Things gets a lot of hype, but its rollout is slow and it will take a long time for consumers to upgrade existing, non-connected devices that still work fine into something that can communicate with computing gadgets like smartphones.

More: Engadget, Washington Post, Reality matters, Gigaom, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Quartz, SlashGear, GeekWire and The Verge. Tweets: @fmanjoo. Thanks:@stevecheney

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, according to OpenSignal's latest fragmentation report — The much-maligned Android fragmentation problem has blighted the mobile operating system for years, though Google has been steadily taking corrective measures in recent times. The issue?

More: OpenSignal, Inquirer, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Android Central, Droid Life, Android Authority, Greenbot, Gigaom, Pocketnow and Quartz

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Opera Mini becomes default browser for Microsoft's fading feature phones — Users will be ‘encouraged’ to replace stock Xpress browser with Opera Mini starting this fall — Opera Software and Microsoft have struck a deal that will replace Nokia's Xpress browser with Opera Mini on Microsoft's dying line of feature phones.

More: Opera Software, The Next Web, Reuters, Gigaom, CNET, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware Guide, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, PopHerald Technology News, Tech Times, GSMArena Blog and DailyTech

James Kendrick / ZDNet:

Citrix and Google partner to bring native enterprise features to Chromebooks — Summary: Enterprise capabilities of Chromebooks just got a lot better with new software by Citrix. — James Kendrick — Chromebooks are making inroads into the education sector, and a push is coming …

More: Gigaom, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, eWeek, Business Wire and Mashable

Seth Weintraub / Electrek:

Tesla Model S software update will bring ability to start car with iPhone — Tesla Model S OS v6.0 to begin rolling out to customers with Calendar app, Traffic/navigation improvements, power savings and iPhone starting — There are some impressive new updates as part …

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, TechCrunch, Apple Gazette, SiliconBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear and Connectedly. Thanks:@markgurman

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Concert Giant Ticketfly Acquires Last-Minute Ticket App WillCall — WillCall is a pretty concert app, but its weakness was a lack of deals with venues to get tickets to sell. Well no more, as today it was acquired by Ticketfly, the second-biggest concert ticket seller in America, which has relationships with thousands of venues.

More: The Next Web, Digital Music News, hypebot and ABC News

Tweets: @donnie and @bdstolle

Thanks:@joshconstine

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