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October 12, 2014, 3:45 PM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Walgreens Planning for October 18 Apple Pay Launch  —  An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple's new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.  —  A Saturday launch is unusual …
Eric Enge / Stone Temple Consulting:
Google Now comes way ahead of Siri and Cortana in a 3K+ voice knowledge-query test  —  The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana  —  Google's Knowledge Graph has been the center of much attention lately.  We have been hearing a lot about another concept called the Knowledge Vault as well.
Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
A woman game developer critical of #GamerGate flees home after death threats  —  Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats  —  Game developer Brianna Wu fled her home last night, following what is becoming a distressingly frequent case of women in the gaming scene expressing fears …
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Patent trolling pays: Since 2010, trolls have made 3 times as much money in court as real companies  —  Two charts show how, even though patent trolls have lost recent battles, they are still winning the war.  —  Who deserves more money from a jury: a company that uses its patents to sue a competitor using its technology?
Kunal Gangar / Sammy Hub:
Samsung US offers two-year coverage against failure, accidental damage to Galaxy S4/5, Note 3/4, starting at $99  —  Samsung USA introduces Protection Plus Mobile Elite for Galaxy S, Galaxy Note devices  —  Samsung has announced a new warranty program for Americans that will protect their devices from any untoward damages.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
3.8M Raspberry Pis sold to date  —  Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Still Selling Like Hot Cakes  —  The UK designed Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which has triggered all sorts of creative single board computing projects — most recently being repurposed as the heart of a DIY computer designed …
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Rdio parent Pulser Media sold $108M worth of equity, warrants or options in cash and non-cash transactions over the last 13 months  —  Rdio Gets $108 Million in Equity Over 2 Years According to New Filings  —  Pulser Media, the parent company of Rdio, sold equity, warrants or options worth $108 million …
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras' documentary about Snowden, confirms a second leaker  —  Citizenfour review - Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated  —  Laura Poitras' documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow  —  Edward Snowden in Moscow.

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