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August 24, 2014, 12:00 AM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Conjecture on new iPhone resolutions: 1334 x 750 for the 4.7" model, 2208 x 1242 for 5.5" — Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays — Throughout the entire rumor cycle for this year's new iPhones, we've been inundated with reports of two new screen sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches.

More: MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Forbes, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Rusty Rants, Ars Technica and 9to5Mac

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Delivery startups return: services like Instacart try to avoid flaws of dot-com-era companies — Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It's 1999 — Last year, I was excited to hear about a new start-up in San Francisco that delivered cheap bottles of wine within an hour. It was called Rewinery, and it was fantastic.

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @bronwynbailey, @horwitzjosh, @alsaqqaf and @bryce

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook deploys huge “Mentions Box” tablet celebs will use to answer fan questions at Emmys — Facebook to Unleash a ‘Mentions Box’ on Celebrities at the Emmys — Even if Matthew McConaughey doesn't win a lead actor Emmy for his role on HBO's “True Detective,” there may be consolation.

More: Mashable, PC Magazine, USA Today, iStrategyLabs, PopHerald Technology News and AllFacebook. Tweets: @reedalbergotti

Nick Statt / CNET:

Coin apologizes to customers, will not charge beta testers $30 upgrade for finished product — Coin apologizes to customers, won't charge beta users $30 to upgrade — The connected credit card startup apologizes for fumbling the announcement of a product delay.

Thanks:@nickstatt

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Research Shows Off “DeLorean,” Its Tech For Building A Lag-Free Cloud Gaming Service — When looking to the future of gaming, few concepts get people as excited as the mythical “Netflix for gaming.” It's a concept that we've seen in multiple forms, from OnLive's early efforts to Sony's new PlayStation Now service.

More: Microsoft Research, Neowin, SlashGear, ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, PC World, The Verge, bit-tech.net, CloudWedge, ITworld.com, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

British man sentenced to 33 months in prison for illicitly recording and uploading one movie — British man sentenced to nearly three years in prison for movie piracy — On Thursday, 25-year-old Philip Danks was sentenced to 33 months in jail by a Wolverhampton judge for pirating a copy of Fast and Furious 6.

More: TorrentFreak, Sky News, BBC, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Neowin, Daily Mail, The Drum and Guardian

Sean Nealon / Phys.org:

Researchers use malicious Android app to steal personal info from Gmail and other installed apps with up to 92% success rate — Hacking Gmail with 92 percent success — (Phys.org) —A team of researchers, including an assistant professor at the University of California …

More: Tom's Guide, Tech Times, ZDNet, Reuters, NBC News, CSO Online, PC Magazine, The Register, Fortune, SecurityWeek, BetaNews, Re/code and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @edbott

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon preparing ad program similar to AdWords, will replace Google ads on site — Amazon Prepares Online Advertising Program — Retailer Developing Ad Sales Program in a Challenge to Google and Microsoft — Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc. 's dominance …

More: VentureBeat, Mashable, The Register, Reuters, PopHerald Technology News, ITworld.com, Fortune and TechCrunch. Tweets: @scottthurm. See also Mediagazer

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google partnering with Rockchip to make a custom SoC for Project Ara — It seems as if Google's Project Ara modular smartphone project is coming along nicely, despite a few manufacturing setbacks. There was apparently a problem with manufacturing devices for those who won units at Google I/O …

More: Google ATAP, Android Central, Android Community, PhoneDog.com, Liliputing, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Tor director suspects NSA and GCHQ agents are anonymously tipping off the company about vulnerabilities — NSA and GCHQ agents ‘leak Tor bugs’ alleges developer — Andrew Lewman: “The fact that we take a completely anonymous bug report allows them to report to us safely”

More: Softpedia News, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Engadget, Federal Computer Week, The Register, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ITProPortal and Gigaom. Tweets: @dangillmor

Ian Paul / PC World:

Microsoft Miracast dongle spotted at FCC ahead of Lumia event — Google's Chromecast is a hit, and now it appears Microsoft wants to replicate something similar for Windows Phone and probably Windows PCs. — Windows Phone Daily and Nokiapoweruser did some sleuthing at the Federal Communication …

More: The Verge, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, PopHerald Technology News, SlashGear, Windows Phone Daily, Electronista, Softpedia News, Engadget, Gigaom, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, Windows Phone Central and Neowin

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