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Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's Next iPad Mini Will Likely Have ‘Retina’ Display From Samsung — TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s suppliers are gearing up for mass production of a new iPad mini in the fourth quarter that will likely feature a high-resolution screen from Samsung, people familiar with the matter say …

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Fortune, GigaOM, Digits, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone Hacks, Digits, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Apple Bitch, Mashable, The Next Web, PhoneArena, T3 News, The Verge, Engadget, App Advice, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, BGR and Business Insider. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple has A6-based iPad mini without Retina display in the works

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Apple fixing bug that allows fake charging stations to hack iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next software update for its iPhones and iPads will fix a security flaw that allows hackers to engage in spying and cyber crimes when the victim connects the device to a fake charging station, the company said on Wednesday.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Ahead of tomorrow's big reveal, here's everything we know about the Moto X — Motorola has released several phones under Google's ownership, but one gets the impression that this is the first one Google has been excited about. — @evleaks — It's been nearly two years since Google …

More: ZDNet, GigaOM, USA Today, The Huffington Post and Telegraph

Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:

Motorola Reveals More X8 Chip Details — What the heck is the X8? Motorola's new processing system powers the Droid Ultra, Droid Mini and Droid Maxx, and it's anticipated to be under the hood of Motorola's new Moto X, coming tomorrow. — The X8 isn't a processor, and it isn't a system-on-a-chip.

More: SlashGear, Softpedia News, Android and Me, Android Community, GigaOM, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Android Authority and PhoneArena

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix individual profile rollout brings up to five unique experiences per account — Netflix is finally ready to deliver individual profiles for its streaming service, meant to satisfy households with shared accounts by providing everyone their own settings, viewing history and (where available) queue.

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, Associated Press, CNET, TechCrunch, GigaOM and The Verge

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Senators Caution White House Over ITC's Looming iPhone Ban — On Aug. 5 — Monday of next week — an International Trade Commission import ban on older iPhones and iPads found to infringe one of Samsung's standards-essential patents will go into effect — unless the White House overturns it.

More: Fortune, Electronista, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider and The Register. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Bloomberg:

Apple Against Samsung Over Phones Turns on Who Copied Who

More: MacDailyNews

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

HP launches Android-based SlateBook ‘PC’ — HP's Android ‘PC’ has arrived. It packs Nvidia's latest Tegra 4 processor and can be used as either a tablet or a laptop. … HP SlateBook x2. HP is branding the SlateBook as an Android ‘PC.’ — (Credit: Hewlett-Packard)

More: PhoneArena, GadgeTell, AndroidGuys, Android Community and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

NSA Director Heckled At Conference As He Asks For Security Community's Understanding — When NSA Director Keith Alexander appeared at the Las Vegas security conference Black Hat Wednesday morning, he hoped to mend the NSA's reputation in the eyes of thousands of the conference's hackers and security professionals.

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Sounding the alarm: Ars speaks with vocal NSA critic Sen. Ron Wyden

More: Senator Wyden's Press Feed

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Paid Between $35M and $40M for Lexity E-Commerce App Platform — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo forked over between $35 million and $40 million in cash to buy Lexity, the e-commerce app platform startup. (The companies had declined to outline terms of the deal, so I decided I would.)

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Google is testing a local news product for Google Now — Google has hatched a plan to boost the visibility of its existing local news product, and in the process is testing a whole new way to get people to pay attention to the news that is geographically most relevant to them.

More: GigaOM, BGR India, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Search Engine Land, The Verge, TechHive, Pocket-lint, Android Community, SlashGear, Engadget, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Dialogue controls your smartphone from your Mac, lets you make and record phone calls — As Apple continues to refine its mobile and desktop operating systems, the company has slowly integrated messaging and other mobile-centric features into Mac OS. With an Apple ID, Mac and iOS owners …

More: TUAW, Lifehacker, TechSpot, MacStories and The Industry

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's upcoming A7 iPhone chip will have Samsung components, code inside iOS 7 reveals — While Apple is using an A6 processor for this new iPad mini, developer Nick Frey has shared with us that Apple is also developing a new A7 processor. A reference to an s5l8960x (likely A7) processor …

More: MacRumors, Softpedia News, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo and iClarified

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu Plans to Hook Subscription Service Into Google Chromecast — Online TV joint venture says it is ‘actively working’ with Google to add Hulu Plus access to $35 streaming adapter — Google's cheap Chromecast Internet TV adapter already lets users stream free Hulu content to their televisions …

More: MobileBurn.com, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Authority, ReadWrite and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Evan Spiegel And Bobby Murphy Say Alleged Snapchat Co-Founder Never Had Equity — Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy have said in new court documents that alleged co-founder Reggie Brown never had equity in the company. — In February, Brown filed a suit against Snapchat claiming …

More: Business Insider

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google extends Windows Phone calendar and contacts syncing until December 31st — Google has granted new Windows Phone users another extension to access its Sync service until December 31st. The company had originally planned to drop support for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol on January 30th …

More: Engadget, 9to5Google, Windows Phone Central, MobileBurn.com, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Electronista, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

John Cook / GeekWire:

OpenTable gobbles up online reservation service Rezbook, partners with Urbanspoon — We heard a few months ago that Urbanspoon was shopping its online restaurant reservation system Rezbook. Now, we've learned where that business has landed ... in the arms of one of Rezbook's biggest rivals.

Thanks:@toddbishop

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Samsung edges past Apple in US smartphone satisfaction study, but reverse is true in Korea — What a difference a year makes. Apple topped American Customer Satisfaction Index's smartphone rankings back in 2012, but Samsung has taken the lead in 2013 by a slim margin.

More: PC World, ACSI, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, The Huffington Post, Android Community, iDownloadBlog.com and InvestorPlace

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Facebook migrates everyone to https connection — The social network attempts to protect members en masse by establishing a more secure connection between their browser and Facebook's servers. — Facebook said Wednesday that https is now the default standard for everyone browsing its social network …

More: Facebook, Help Net Security, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, ZDNet, SlashGear, ReadWrite, PandoDaily and AllFacebook. See also Mediagazer

Esat Dedezade / Stuff:

EXCLUSIVE: UK Government to outlaw Google Glass for drivers — The Department for Transport has acted to ban drivers from using Google Glass - even before Google's smart eyewear launches to the general public. Stuff has learned that the government department is concerned about the potential …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Toward a More Public Social Network: Facebook Rolls Out Embedded Posts — The world's premier social network is beginning to learn the value of publicness. — Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will roll out embedded posts, giving users the ability to stick their status updates in pages across the Web, and outside of Facebook.

More: Facebook, Facebook Developer Blog, Business Insider, The Register, Bloomberg and TechCrunch

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook takes on Twitter with embeddable statuses and photos — but there's a catch

More: Mashable

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