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August 24, 2014, 9:20 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.

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

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

Brad Molen / Engadget:

LG will reveal a circular smartwatch next week to compete with the Moto 360 — Of the three Android Wear smartwatches introduced at Google's developer conference in June, the Moto 360 was by far the crowd favorite; its circular watchface gives it a classic, elegant look …

More: Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Techaeris, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me and Android Central

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Top 25 most used apps in US: Facebook on top, followed by YouTube; Google is top publisher — These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America — In its latest mobile app report, comScore tracks the 25 most popular apps in the US. This is an interesting slice of the App Store …

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Tweets: @taavet, @fromedome and @jayrosen_nyu

Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:

Top apps by user age groups: Pandora is 2nd most popular after Facebook for 3 youngest groups — Baby Boomers Are Still Playing Words With Friends — College students love their Instagram. Baby Boomers still use Yahoo Mail. — These were some of the findings of a new report …

More: comScore, Inc., ReadWrite, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, Engadget, Gigaom Research, RAIN News, CITEworld and Re/code

Tweets: @wcronon and @dkthomp

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Tech Elites Aren't Ruining Burning Man. They Get Their Hands Dirty, Too. — Don't believe the hate. While it's a juicy narrative that rich people spoil everything the common folk hold dear, there are plenty of tech bigwigs at Burning Man that work hard to contribute and embody the event's ideals of inclusion.

More: Vox, TechCrunch, Fast Company and Salon

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshelman

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, iStrategyLabs, PC Magazine, PopHerald Technology News, USA Today and AllFacebook

Tweets: @reedalbergotti and @lessien

9to5Google:

Napa area 6.0 earthquake shown on Google Alerts, now with Twitter feed — A magnitude 6.0 Earthquake has struck North of San Francisco Bay Area near Napa. We hope everyone is ok. — What's interesting here is that Google's alert center now includes tweets.

More: San Francisco Chronicle, ABC News, Reuters, Los Angeles Times and Mashable

Tweets: @voxterra, @nycjim, @matthewkeyslive, @kcbsnews, @pzfeed and @willkane

Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

Researchers created fake social network to access & understand China's internet censor systems — Researchers Made a Fake Social Network to Infiltrate China's Internet Censors — It's no secret that China has been censoring and controlling the information its citizens can send and receive, especially on the internet.

More: sciencemag.org, Ars Technica, New Scientist, sciencemag.org and Popular Mechanics. Tweets: @ross

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 Community, PhoneDog.com, Android Central, Liliputing, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

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, Polygon, Neowin, Tech Times, Gizmodo, SlashGear, PC World, The Verge, PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, bit-tech.net, CloudWedge, ITworld.com, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

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: Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Tech Times, Reuters, NBC News, ZDNet, CSO Online, PC Magazine, The Register, Fortune, SecurityWeek and BetaNews. Tweets: @edbott

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