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July 28, 2013, 5:10 AM

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars — High court imposes injunction on Flavio Garcia, who has cracked security system of cars including Porsches and Bentleys — A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing …

More: The Verge, Telegraph and Boing Boing

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates — AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.

Tweets: @naval

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Hey Look, Software Just Ate VC! — Remember when Sacca was buying Twitter stock like a boss because the founders preferred him to VCs? There's now an app for that. — Recently AngelList quietly started testing Syndicates. Syndicates allow you to raise any amount of money on behalf of a startup and take 20% of the carry.

Tweets: @jordancooper, @naval, @naval, @danprimack and @nchirls

Reuters:

Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, New York Times, Mercury News, internetretailer.com, BGR, InvestorPlace, Tech Trader Daily and Wireless Smartphone Strategies. Tweets: @whatthebit

Ryan Knutson / Digits:

Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits — Apple has fallen off the profit throne. — Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. — Samsung's operating profit for handsets …

More: Forbes, CNET, The Register, StreetInsider.com, BGR and dailywireless.org

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review — At an event in San Francisco, Google announced an updated version of the popular Nexus 7 tablet which first appeared at last year's Google I/O. The big new features update the Nexus 7 platform with inclusion of a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) SoC …

More: The Verge and 9to5Google. Tweets: @512px and @piercedavid

Amy O'Leary / New York Times:

In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App — EDMOND, Okla. — More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment. — For millions of readers around the world, a wildly successful free Bible app, YouVersion, is changing how, where and when they read the Bible.

More: NYT Bits and GigaOM. Tweets: @bydanielvictor and @davemorin

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies — The reach of NSA's PRISM program has spooked some overseas companies from using US cloud providers. — The revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) broad monitoring of traffic and access to the data …

More: Electronista, ZDNet and GigaOM

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Don't Panic: Google has prototypes for ‘real-time’ translation device, ‘near perfect’ in some uses — It sounds like Google's Babel fish-esque instant translation solution is making progress — Android VP Hugo Barra told The UK Times that Google's got hardware prototypes (in the form of mobile phones) already working.

More: The Times, DVICE, Electronista, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, The Verge, BGR, Tested, Mashable, Gadget Helpline, PhoneArena and TechCrunch

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch — It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services …

More: Alain Vongsouvanh, PC Magazine, iDigitalTimes and Engadget

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Twitter UK chief responds to abuse concerns after campaigner is deluged with rape threats — The head of Twitter's business in the UK has responded to concerns that the service is not doing enough to help users report abuse, after a UK-based equal rights campaigner received repeated rape threats this week.

More: The Independent, BBC, digiphile, CNET, Guardian, The Huffington Post UK, GigaOM, The Verge, Metro.co.uk, Sky News and New Statesman

Tweets: @tonyw, @mrchrisaddison and @tonyw

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