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August 19, 2013, 9:45 AM

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Goldfinger: The Next iPhone — “Gold? All over?” M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964′s Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of “skin suffocation”, the same fate will not befall the next iPhone.

Christina Allen / Official LinkedIn Blog:

Introducing LinkedIn University Pages — A few years ago, my daughter and I took a road trip to visit schools before she made her final decision about college. I was hoping she'd stay in California, but it wasn't looking good. She'd fallen in love with a university 2,500 miles away …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Telegraph, The Verge, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, WebProNews and Mashable. Tweets: @linkedin

Raffi Krikorian / Official Twitter blog:

New Tweets per second record, and how — Recently, something remarkable happened on Twitter: On Saturday, August 3 in Japan, people watched an airing of Castle in the Sky, and at one moment they took to Twitter so much that we hit a one-second peak of 143,199 Tweets per second.

More: Data Center Knowledge, Inquirer, I4U News, Guardian, NBCNews and memeburn

Wall Street Journal:

Beats By Dre Looks to Drop HTC — The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people familiar with the matter said. The moves come as the founders of Beats Electronics LLC …

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Tweets: @counternotions, @hunterwalk, @parislemon and @monkbent

Gary Marcus / New Yorker:

Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand — Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google's voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven o'clock?,” but what about questions …

Tweets: @kenanmalik and @axelpolleres

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter Hires Jennifer Prince from Google: Entertainment Ad Sales — Jennifer Prince to head social media company's ad sales efforts in movie, TV biz — Looking to win more Hollywood followers, Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, formerly Google's head of media and entertainment ad sales …

More: Engadget, GigaOM, The Verge and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @adambain and @jenmprince

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Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Here's what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour — Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan to gather data on the use of encryption online.

Tweets: @digiphile, @happilycoded, @geraldsantucci and @loudmouthman

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

You have no mail: Yahoo's email service is now closed in China — Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) email service in China is now shut, in line with an announcement of its closure that came in April. After that four-month warning, yesterday was the final day for Yahoo China email users to login and migrate their email to an alternative service.

More: TechCrunch, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Pulse 2.0, VatorNews, Mashable and Softpedia News

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:

District Court Holds That Intentionally Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization” Under the CFAA — During the debate over the Aaron Swartz case, one of the legal issues was whether Swartz had committed an unauthorized access under the CFAA when he changed his IP address …

Tweets: @ywxwy

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Microsoft to kill Tag barcode program, licensing technology out — Microsoft is to shut down Tag, a type of barcode technology not too dissimilar to QR codes, in 2015. The technology is a form of High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB), and allows for a higher density of information to be stored …

More: GigaOM, BetaNews, Engadget, The Next Web, Barcode.com, techAU, 2d code, CITEworld, and Electronista

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising: New Google Patent May Reveal Plans For Monetizing Google Glass — Google has been granted a patent that appears to reveal some far-reaching plans for the eye-tracking sensor that exists — but currently isn't formally used — on Google Glass.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, gHacks Technology News, Pulse 2.0 and The Register

Tweets: @counternotions, @jafurtado and @glynmoody

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