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March 9, 2015, 9:40 AM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Apple Watch event predictions: 42mm costlier than 38mm, steel models $749+, Edition models $7.5K+, no upgradability, Photos demoed, 12" MacBook Air revealed — One Last Spitball on Stainless Steel Apple Watch Pricing — Here are my “final guesses” from last night (for 38/42mm models):

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Eddy Cue explains how Apple Watch uses your iPhone to authenticate Apple Pay payments — Eddy Cue: Here's how Apple Pay works on an Apple Watch — The exec in charge of Apple Pay tells CNET at a Golden State Warriors game that the mobile payments service will work on the company's …

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch pricing, availability, surprises & more, here's what to expect at Apple's event

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

With abusive posts still rampant on Yik Yak, some college campuses are taking steps to ban the service — Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling — During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class's three female professors.

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Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Square, now shifting its focus to small businesses, plans to introduce instant deposits and disputed purchase protection on Monday — The Payment Start-Up Square Expands Its Reach Into Small Businesses — What is Square? — The six-year-old payments start-up began by offering small …

More: PC World. Tweets: @mdudas and @mikeisaac

Damon Darlin / New York Times:

With Emoji a product of Japanese origins, America needs new Emoji symbols that reflect its own culture — Dispatch: America Needs Its Own Emojis — America Needs Its Own Emojis — There's so much we can't express because the symbols don't exist: no Vulcan salute, no pickup truck, no bacon.

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Ex-VP of online marketing Sean Percival shares MySpace lessons: lack of focus after News Corp takeover, deceptive ads, failure to build on unique music deal — MySpace: what went wrong - by its former VP of online marketing — Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey …

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

How one man had most of his online life compromised and $3000 taken after his email was hacked — Anatomy of a Hack … In the early morning hours of October 21st, 2014, Partap Davis lost $3,000. He had gone to sleep just after 2AM in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after a late night playing World of Tanks.

Tweets: @patphelan, @dtunkelang, @codinghorror and @dsilverman

Brian Anderson / Motherboard:

Mexican drug gangs are believed to be abducting IT specialists to build communication networks — The Drug Cartels' IT Guy — The most recent photo of Felipe García, an architect, taken just weeks before he disappeared in Northeastern Mexico in March 2013. He was wearing this shirt the day he vanished.

Tweets: @markrussinovich and @cheeky_geeky

Chris Plante / The Verge:

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney on how Unreal Engine 4 may soon power film and architecture — Why video game engines may power the future of film and architecture — The original developer of Gears of War has an ambitious plan for the future of everything. — Epic Games, the company best …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Review: good build quality and near-stock load of Android 5.0.2 make the Moto E the best phone you can get for $150 — Review: The new Moto E is the most phone you can get for $150 — The first Moto E cut too many corners, but this one can hold its own. — The new Moto E with LTE.

More: IGN, PC Magazine, ZDNet and Mashable

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft — Inside The Post-Minecraft Billionaire Life Of Gamer God Markus Persson — It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull.

More: Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @notch, @notch, @notch, @patrickklepek, @batsphinx and @cdixon. Thanks:@thealexknapp

Dave Tach / Polygon:

Behind freemium mobile game Crossy Road, which earned $10M and hit 50M downloads in 3 months — They wanted to make a phenomenon. They made $10 million. The story of Crossy Road. — A few years ago, Matt Hall, the 39-year-old co-creator of the enormously successful Crossy Road …

Tweets: @lessien, @cdixon and @jalada

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