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August 29, 2014, 6:10 AM

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Google X unveils Project Wing, its drone delivery program; tested in secret for two years  —  Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program  —  A zipping comes across the sky.  —  A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia.
Bloomberg:
Google X VP Megan Smith is top candidate for US CTO role  —  Google's Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer  —  America is close to getting a new chief technology officer: Megan Smith, a longtime executive at Google Inc. and most recently a vice president at its secret lab, Google X.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Behind Todd Park's new Silicon Valley-based mission to attract talent to reboot Federal IT, as he departs US CTO role  —  America's Tech Guru Steps Down—But He's Not Done Rebooting the Government  —  Todd Park (third from left) with members of his digital team (from left): Haley Van Dyck …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple builds a hidden structure at Flint Center, site of Mac unveiling, ahead of Sept. 9 event  —  Apple Building Massive Structure at Flint Center for iPhone 6 Event  —  Apple today issued invitations for its upcoming iPhone 6 event on September 9, which is also said to include its much-anticipated wearable device.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces special event for September 9 with tagline “Wish we could say more”  —  Apple announces special event for Sept. 9  —  Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a special event being held on Sept. 9, 2014 at 10:00 am.  —  Typically Apple's events are held either …
Christina Bonnington / Wired:
Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:
Google drops authorship support, including authors in results, citing poor adoption by webmasters and low value to searchers  —  It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results  —  After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end ... at least for now.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix VP of content delivery Ken Florance says the company had to pay Comcast because it was losing customers  —  The Netflix Case Against Comcast, in One Chart  —  We've already heard Netflix executives explain why they signed an Internet deal with Comcast, even though they say they didn't want to …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Xbox One SmartGlass app adds gameplay recording, TV streaming & more as it expands into new markets  —  Microsoft updated its Xbox One SmartGlass companion app today with new features as the app and some of its flagship features expand into new markets.  After first rolling out the features in beta …
Adam Greenburg / SC Magazine:
Data on 97K Bugzilla users posted online for about three months  —  The email addresses and encrypted passwords of about 97,000 users of the test build of bug tracking system Bugzilla - specifically landfill.bugzilla.org - were posted publicly online for roughly three months beginning around May 4, according to a Wednesday post.
Felix Gillette / Businessweek:
An entire Hollywood-like industry has grown around YouTube creators  —  Hollywood's Big-Money YouTube Hit Factory  —  When Brian Robbins first told people he was going full time into the YouTube (GOOG) business, his colleagues in Hollywood were incredulous.  “My agent, my lawyer, my dad—people thought I was crazy,” he says.
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