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Apple has also reached a deal with Visa and MasterCard for its mobile wallet — Apple Said to Team With Visa, MasterCard on IPhone Wallet — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to turn its next iPhone into a mobile wallet through a partnership with major payment networks, banks and retailers, according a person familiar with the situation.
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Apple partnering with American Express to let iPhone 6 owners use their phone to pay for goods in physical stores — Apple Working With American Express on iPhone 6 Mobile Payments — Apple has reached an agreement with American Express to work together on its new iPhone payments system …
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Veteran Tech Journalist Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple — Anand Lal Shimpi, the editor and publisher of the well-regarded AnandTech site, is going to work at Apple. — An Apple rep confirmed that the company was hiring Shimpi, but wouldn't provide any other details.
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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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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Uber and Lyft are becoming indistinguishable commodities to riders and drivers both — Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities — If you need a ride, pull out your phone and load up the Lyft app. Or try Uber. Really, it doesn't matter which you pick.| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Nude celebrity picture leak looks like phishing or email account hack — Apple's iCloud service may have been the source of the photos but security experts think password hacks are likely explanation — The leak of pictures and, allegedly, videos of Jennifer Lawrence by an unknown hacker has security experts - and Apple - puzzled.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money — A video game tournament in Seattle in July. Pro gaming, called e-sports, is becoming a lucrative worldwide spectator sport. — Credit: Stuart Isett for The New York Times — SEATTLE — A bewitching creature — half woman … | Mark Wilson / Co.Design: |
75% Of Ikea's Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery — You could have fooled us. Wait, actually, you did. — The best special effects are often the ones you never notice—which may make Ikea the most skillful special effects studio in the world. The Swedish furniture company … | William A. Radasky / IEEE Spectrum: |
Digitally controlled infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to electromagnetic weapons — Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here — A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world. In the 2001 action movie Ocean's Eleven, criminals use an electromagnetic weapon to black out a portion of Las Vegas.| Frances Robinson / Wall Street Journal: |
EU Sends Questionnaire to Rivals Over Facebook Deal With WhatsApp — Officials Seek to Identify What Separates a Social Network From a Messaging Application — BRUSSELS—European Union antitrust officials have sent a detailed questionnaire to competitors and customers of Facebook Inc …
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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.
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| Ted C. Fishman / Chicago Magazine: |
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