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February 10, 2015, 11:25 AM

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Prem Ramaswami / The Official Google Blog:
Google adds fact-checked and reviewed health information to Knowledge Graph in search  —  A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph  —  Think of the last time you searched on Google for health information.  Maybe you heard a news story about gluten-free diets …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions  —  Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9's standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 8.4 to be released after Apple Watch starts shipping, possibly with redesigned Beats-based music service  —  Apple working on iOS 8.4 update, may include new music service  —  In addition to working on iOS 8.2, iOS 8.3, and iOS 9.0, Apple is working on yet another update to iOS 8: iOS 8.4.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
US forming Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to collate intelligence against cyberattacks  —  New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace  —  The Obama administration is establishing a new agency to combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks, and its mission …
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
JetBlue to accept Apple Pay on select flights to buy food, drinks, amenities and upgrades  —  Apple Pay takes to the skies via JetBlue  —  NEW YORK — Apple Pay is poised to take off — quite literally.  —  Starting next week, passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay …
Bloomberg Business:
IBM Sues Priceline, Kayak Over Royalties for Late '90s Patents  —  Don't Miss Out —  (Bloomberg) — IBM is suing Priceline Group Inc. and its subsidiaries, travel website Kayak and restaurant-reservation tool Opentable, after failing to reach a patent-licensing agreement.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Ross Ulbricht's closest confidant at Silk Road, known as Variety Jones, remains elusive  —  Ross Ulbricht Didn't Create Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts.  This Guy Did  —  More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts …
Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:
RootMetrics: Verizon, T-Mobile lead in consistently fast 4G  —  Independent mobile network tester RootMetrics has completed its latest round of nationwide speed and reliability tests, and while the best overall performance award goes to Verizon, the speed prize that most tech geeks really care about was a bit of toss-up.
Beth McMurtrie / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Many original Thiel fellows say they learned more in fellowship than they would have in college  —  The Rich Man's Dropout Club  —  Whatever happened to the teenage entrepreneurs whom Peter Thiel paid to forgo college?  —  Peter Thiel paid teenagers to forgo college.  Here's how that turned out:
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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
IBM and Softbank team up on cognitive computing, Watson to learn Japanese  —  IBM's Watson Turns Japanese and Moves Into Robots  —  IBM and SoftBank Telecom Corporation have agreed to bring the technology behind Watson — the IBM computer that won the television game show “Jeopardy!”  — into Japan.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Deezer brings its lossless Elite music-streaming service to Sonos music systems globally  —  Mobile executive?  VB is hosting our 5th annual Mobile Summit on February 23-24 at the scenic Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, CA.  See if you qualify here.  —  Music-streaming company Deezer …
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Apple CEO to speak at White House cyber summit  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook will speak at the White House cybersecurity summit this Friday at Stanford University, according to an invitation to the event.  —  The White House is expected to reveal its next executive action on cybersecurity at the summit …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes Internet.org And Its Free Mobile Data Services To India  —  Facebook's Internet.org project to provide basic mobile internet services for free just took its biggest step to date after it launched in India.  —  The service, which is run by non-profit organization Internet.org …

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