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August 21, 2013, 3:00 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach — Programs Cover 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications …

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Wall Street Journal:

What You Need to Know on New Details of NSA Spying

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emptywheel:

How NSA Bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 Years

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NBCNews:

US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say

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Facebook Newsroom:

Technology Leaders Launch Partnership to Make Internet Access Available to All — Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung to be founding partners — MENLO PARK, CA, — Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, today announced the launch of internet.org …

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook And 6 Phone Companies Launch Internet.org To Bring Affordable Access To Everyone

More: Engadget. Tweets: @vindugoel

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal? — Here's a fun combination to ponder: The world's most powerful media company and America's most popular sport. — That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket package, the all-you-can-eat subscription-TV service currently owned by DirecTV.

Jesse Hicks / The Verge:

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for WikiLeaks disclosures — Bradley Manning's court-martial reached an end today, with Army Colonel Denise Lind sentencing him to 35 years in prison. The WikiLeaks source, arrested in Iraq in 2010 for releasing nearly 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks …

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Tweets: @jpbarlow, @ggreenwald, @jaredbkeller, @ggreenwald and @carnage4life

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Introduces ‘My List,’ A Personalized Instant Queue For Users All Over The World — Netflix is continually working to make its streaming video service more personalized, adding features that will make individual users keep coming back for more. The company's latest effort in that direction …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, BetaNews, PC World, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Inquirer, SocialTimes, AllThingsD, WebProNews, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Mashable, Macgasm, TechHive and Electronista. Tweets: @xamat. See also Mediagazer

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Field Trip now ready for Google Glass — The Field Trip app for exploring and learning about your surroundings launches a Glassware app for a more hands-free approach to real-world discovery. — Self-guided smartphone tours just got a lot more hands-free, as the Field Trip app …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge and Android Phone Fans

Reuters:

Insight: Peter Chou - Is he HTC's savior or obstacle to revival? — (Reuters) - Now in his tenth year as CEO of HTC Corp, Peter Chou is lauded as the architect of the Taiwanese firm's award-winning smartphones. But as the company's fortunes have dived, some insiders say he's now an obstacle to any revival.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft offers classrooms free Surface RT tablets with ad-free Bing for Schools — Microsoft's plan to battle Google in the classroom is launching today. Bing for Schools is a new ad-free version of Microsoft's search service that includes strict filtering and privacy protections designed for schools.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Maker Studios Buys Blip, and a Home Outside of YouTube (Update) — Maker Studios, one of the biggest YouTube networks, is buying Blip, a video maker and distributor. — Blip officials informed their staff of the deal this morning, and it is expected to close in early September.

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM and Beet.TV

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski and @johnolilly

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Rajat Agrawal / BGR India:

Doubts cast over developer interest in BlackBerry as lone developer accounts for a third of all apps — In what could be the latest in a series of reality checks for BlackBerry, a report has emerged claiming that just one app developer accounts for a third of all apps on the company's app store.

More: BerryReview, GigaOM, TechCrunch, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @spencerchen and @adora

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Nearly A Year Later, Twitter Triggers Return to IFTTT With Official Support — Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This enables users to return to archiving tweets to Dropbox …

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and 9to5Mac

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance — WASHINGTON — The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents …

More: Ars Technica, Betabeat and Motherboard

Tweets: @feardept and @thomas_drake1

Bloomberg:

Apple IPad's China Market Share Slumps as Samsung Tablets Gain — The iPad's share of China's tablet-computer market plunged by more than 20 percentage points in the second quarter as Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) built on its lead in smartphones to cut into Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s sales.

More: iPhone Hacks and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @hyunggmyung

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Tech In A “Surprising Slump”? Hardly — What is the forecast for tech? It depends on whom you ask. For some, it's contraction. For others, the money is flowing. Cisco is in the tank and has layoffs planned, even as Microsoft mints new billion-dollar businesses. Yahoo can't keep its hands off the kids.

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Vevo in Deals With Apple, Samsung for TV Programming — Online Music-Video Company to Deliver On-Demand Programming Via Set-Top Boxes, Television Sets — Music-video company Vevo LLC is migrating from YouTube to the boob tube in a back-to-the-future attempt to recreate something akin to the original MTV.

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Bloomberg, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, bizjournals, iLounge and TUAW. See also Mediagazer

Mat Honan / Wired:

The Great App.net Mistake — Before the great gold rush of venture capital and public offerings, there was an idea that the Internet should not just change the world, but actively make it a better place. Profit and empowerment, the voices said, should coexist.

More: App Advice

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Box Doubles Its Free Plan To 10GB, Creates New $5/Month, 100GB Storage Tier For Small Firms — Box, an enterprise-facing cloud document and file storage service, today opened a new front in the online storage war by doubling its free plan to 10GB of space, and added a new …

More: The Next Web, The Box Blog, InfoWorld, PC World, CITEworld and TechRadar.com. Thanks:@fredericl

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

Bitcoin Spawns China Virtual IPOs as U.S. Scrutiny Grows — The Bitcoin craze is catching on in China. — Sun Minjie is a 28-year-old Internet worker who lives in Beijing. Eager to profit from growing demand for the digital currency, Sun has invested more than $3,000 in a company called 796 Xchange Ltd …

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

LG Display claims a world's first with 2,560 x 1,440 LCD for smartphones — Full HD displays? Eat your heart out, handset manufacturers. LG Display has just laid claim to the world's first Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440) smartphone display, which also boasts the highest pixel density of a mobile device, clocking in at 538ppi.

More: LG Display Newsroom, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, TechHive, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Tested and CNET

Tweets: @asymco and @uvstaska

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's Stealthy Helpouts Live Video Commerce Service Makes Its First Public Appearance, Landing Page Now Live — Last month, our own Rip Empson broke the news that Google was working on Helpouts, a Hangouts-based marketplace “ that enables individuals and small and large businesses to buy and sell services via live video.”

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