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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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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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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| 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.| Dom Esposito / 9to5Google: |
Sony's Xperia announcements at IFA: Z3, initially T-Mobile exclusive, Z3 Compact, budget E3 phone, and waterproof Z3 Tablet Compact — Revealed: The new phones and waterproof tablet that Sony has up its sleeves for IFA 2014 — As we've previously reported, Sony will be launching … Thanks:@steqheu
| 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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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 …
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TechCrunch and Gigaom. Tweets: @timkarr, @ninabernstein1, @lhfang, @publici, @scrawford and @dangillmor
| New York Times: |
The evolution of propaganda: how ISIS uses Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, SoundCloud, and more — ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media — The extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq have riveted the world's attention with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality.
Tweets: @abumuqawama, @dangillmor and @themurdochtimes
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Coinbase announces accredited insurance covering the bitcoins it holds online at any time — Coinbase surprises with news of a year-old deposit insurance program, but what of its cold storage? — Coinbase dropped a bombshell on the bitcoin world yesterday by revealing … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
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 … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
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.| 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 …
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