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October 26, 2014, 9:00 PM

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

CVS and Rite Aid reportedly disabling NFC in stores to shut down Apple Pay and Google Wallet, as they prepare to roll out MCX's rival payment system — CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet — Earlier this week, pharmacy chain Rite Aid shut …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

A look at CurrentC, the clunky and creepy mobile payments app that Walmart, CVS, and other big retailers hope will help them sidestep credit card fees — CurrentC Is The Big Retailers' Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees — Long before Apple Pay, big brick …

More: USA Today, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, iMore and SlashGear

Tweets: @carlosdomingo, @mg, @panzer, @percival, @delrey, @msfd and @lessien

Thanks:@joshconstine

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

CVS and Rite Aid blocking Apple Pay is a defensive move to buttress a cumbersome and ultimately doomed rival payment system — Retailers Are Disabling NFC to Block Apple Pay — Eric Slivka, reporting for MacRumors: … These retailers are part of a group (Merchant Customer Exchange …

More: iMore, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, rc3.org and Re/code

Tweets: @claytonmorris, @profjeffjarvis, @sulka, @benedictevans, @bluechoochoo, @drbarnard and @mikeisaac

Noah Everett / Twitpic Blog:

Twitpic agrees to give Twitter the Twitpic.com domain and photo archive, site to remain in read-only mode — Twitpic's Future — First off I want to say thank you to everyone who has used Twitpic over the years and for your patience with us over the last couple of months.

Jenna Wortham / Matter:

How Uber helps black riders bypass the difficult and often humiliating act of hailing a taxi — Ubering While Black — The comedian Hannibal Buress has a bit in his act about trying to hail a cab in New York as a black man. He walks up to the taxi and tries to open the door …

Tweets: @ajs, @readmatter and @susanmcp1

Adrian Chen / Wired:

“It's like PTSD”: inside the army of outsourced moderators cleaning gore, porn, and hate speech from the Internet — The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed — The campuses of — the tech industry are famous for their lavish cafeterias, cushy shuttles, and on-site laundry services.

More: SocialTimes and Online Dating Insider. Tweets: @anildash, @mslods, @john_self, @kinggary, @obscuricaggc, @chrismessina, @sree, @bobmcmillan, @bradplumer, @hamburger, @tha_rami, @zephoria, @kashhill and @nickbilton. Thanks:@srikardr

Victor Fiorillo / Philadelphia Magazine:

Philadelphia Parking Authority makes good on threat, impounds five UberX vehicles — PPA Impounds UberX Vehicles in Undercover Sting Operation — On Saturday, we told you that Uber had announced the arrival of UberX — the cheaper version of Uber — in Philadelphia proper …

More: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6abc.com, BetaNews, Philly.com, Philadelphia Magazine and Technical.ly Philly

Tweets: @phillygossipdn, @sether and @timquirino

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Study shows e-commerce sites vary prices depending on device type, OS, other factors — Are Online Vendors Giving You Their Best Price? Maybe Not, Research Says — A new study found that e-commerce sites vary online pricing depending on whether customers use mobile or desktop devices, iOS or Android, and other factors.

More: tech.co, Racked National, TIME and Engadget

Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:

App startup founder seeking coverage sends journalist a swag basket including a vibrator, K-Y Jelly, and liquor — Tech companies haven't gotten past sexism 1.0 — A vibrator is seen on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. — Tech startups often ply journalists with swag …

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @leenarao, @kristenvbrown, @ellenhuet, @faience, @caseynewton and @thekenyeung

Jeff Sommer / New York Times:

iPhone sales estimated to add a quarter to a third of a percent to annualized US GDP growth — When iPhones Ring, the Economy Listens — Gloomy economic news and the wild swings of the stock market may be getting you down. But at least you can count on this: We've entered the sweet spot of the iPhone cycle.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @valaafshar and @counternotions

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Silicon Valley startup unveils Internet-connected smart guns for cops — A Silicon Valley startup said Friday that police agencies were field testing its new product: a wireless sensor that transforms officers' weapons into smart guns with real-time telemetry.

More: Engadget, Forbes, The Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, SlashGear, Bloomberg and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @billschrier

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Patent, trademark filings reveal more about Magic Leap's wearable augmented reality tech — How Magic Leap's Augmented Reality Works — Patent and trademark filings reveal the augmented reality technology that convinced Google and others to invest $542 million into Magic Leap.

More: Tech Times. Tweets: @johnverdon. Thanks:@tsimonite

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