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Apple has considered a $400 price for its wearable device, with some models priced lower — Apple Has Considered $400 Price for Wearable Device — Apple executives have discussed charging around $400 for the company's new wearable device. — Pricing has yet to be finalized for the forthcoming product …
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Apple wearable to be revealed September 9 won't ship until early 2015 — Code/red: Apple Wearable Won't Ship Until Next Year — // HAPPENING TODAY — The 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters. — Beloved cryptographer Hal Finney is being cryopreserved following his recent, tragic death from ALS.
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Anand Shimpi stepping down as Editor in Chief of AnandTech and retiring from tech publishing — The Road Ahead — Both of my parents were teachers, and for as long as I can remember they both encouraged me to do something in life that would help others.
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How AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable use state governments to hinder municipal broadband — How big telecom smothers city-run broadband — AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable use statehouses to curb public Internet service — The 400-acre Coffee County Joint Industrial Park … | Dom Esposito / 9to5Google: |
Android Wear powered Sony SmartWatch 3 and ‘SmartBand Talk’ with curved e-ink display launching at IFA 2014 — IFA 2014 is right around the corner and we're expecting to see quite a bit of tech launched during the show. Sony is in attendance this year and their official press event is scheduled to happen on on Sept. 4th, 2014.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Redesigns Signup Process to Entice New Users — Twitter is trying to ease the pain for new users to create an account, hoping it will persuade them to sign up and stick around. — The company on Friday redesigned the layout of the signup process to address common complaints among … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
An inside look at Apple's media strategy, its earlier control-obsessed regime, and the transformation with the departure of Jobs disciple Katie Cotton — Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple's Mastery of the Media — “Beautifully, unapologetically plastic.”
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BetaNews, iPhone Hacks, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors and iLounge
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Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive — 2.6m historic pictures posted online — The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet — An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba plans to kick off IPO roadshow in early September, begin trading as soon as September 18 or 19 — Alibaba Plans IPO Launch Week of Sept. 8 — Shares Could Begin Trading as Soon as Sept. 18 or 19 — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to launch …
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Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission next Thursday — Exclusive: Bitcoin promoter to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission — (Reuters) - Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged … | Julien Lecomte / Yahoo Engineering: |
Yahoo stopping all new development on YUI, citing waning developer interest in the open source JavaScript and CSS library — Important Announcement Regarding YUI — The Yahoo User Interface library (YUI) has been in use at Yahoo since 2005, and was first announced to the public on February 13, 2006.
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Second Bitcoin user Hal Finney dies at 58 after battle with ALS, has body cryonically frozen — Bitcoin's Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body To See The Future — Some bitcoin enthusiasts have used their cryptocurrency to travel the world. Others have spent it on a trip to space.
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lists.extropy.org, Vox, New York Times, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, NEWSBTC, CoinDesk and CryptoCoinsNews
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