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October 26, 2014, 6:35 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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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 and ITProPortalTweets: @johnverdonThanks:@tsimonite
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
More crowdfunding campaigns for routers promising anonymity follow Anonabox, but choose wisely  —  Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router.  Choose Wisely  —  Maintaining your privacy online, like investing in stocks or looking good naked, has become one of those nagging desires …

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