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September 2, 2013, 12:20 AM

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Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

This is Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch: A blocky health tracker with a camera — Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is a chunky, 3-inch wrist-mounted accessory that runs Android apps and connects with your phone via Bluetooth. — Samsung is set to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch next Wednesday, Sept. 4, in Berlin.

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Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Om Malik / GigaOM:

More details on Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch: those images are of a prototype — Venturebeat caused a holiday weekend stir with what appeared to be pictures of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which will be formally unveiled this Wednesday. However, the model of the watch reported …

More: SlashGear and Technology Personalized

New York Times:

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.'s — For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans' phone calls …

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New York Times:

Synopsis of the Hemisphere Project — A slide presentation given to The New York Times shows that the Hemisphere Project was started in 2007 and has been carried out in great secrecy.

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Wall Street Journal:

Vodafone, Verizon Agree on $130 Billion Deal — Negotiators for Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC have agreed to a deal in which Verizon will pay about $130 billion for the U.K. company's stake in their U.S. joint venture, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Tweets: @ryan_knutson, @vijayshekhar, @davecbenoit and @dtapscott

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

One Microsoft On, Ballmer Out, ValueAct In — Get Ready for the Next Shoe to Drop at Microsoft — It would seem that all it takes to be in a position to make big changes at Microsoft is $2.2 billion. — That's the value of the tiny 0.8 percent stake that ValueAct had compiled …

More: ZDNet, ParisLemon, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and bizjournals. Tweets: @edbott

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Acquires Viki Video Site for $200 Million — Japan's Internet e-commerce giant Rakuten is set to purchase Viki, a premium video site that has been described as “Hulu for the rest of the world.” — The deal was set to be announced next week …

More: Tech in Asia, The Next Web and SGE. Tweets: @jonrussell

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Nintendo in Motion — My terse reaction to the 2DS on Wednesday: It's $129. I say they should just give in and start making iOS games. They're not going to win this battle. This prompted several thoughtful responses, many of them staunchly in opposition.

More: iMore, Ignore the Code and The Verge

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @adamappleman, @codyfink, @codyfink, @claytonmorris, @codyfink and @stevestreza

Bloomberg:

Morgan Stanley Said to Hold Off on BlackBerry 10 Upgrade — Morgan Stanley (MS) is holding off on upgrading its employees to BlackBerry Ltd. (BB)'s newest smartphones and operating system because of concerns that the Canadian company may not back its platform long-term, according to two people with knowledge of the bank's plans.

More: Wall Street Journal, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, BGR, SlashGear and GigaOM. Tweets: @charlessizemore

Robert N. Charette / IEEE Spectrum:

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth — You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge is threatened. — It pretty much doesn't matter …

More: IEEE Spectrum Recent … and GigaOM. Tweets: @alexia and @qthrul

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain — IT can be disconcerting to learn what, not to mention how much, marketers know about us. Consider a consumer like Scott E. Howe. — The Acxiom Corporation, a marketing technology company that has amassed details on the household makeup …

More: Guardian. Tweets: @msquinn and @mattturck

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

LG announces the G Pad, an 8.3-inch, Android Jelly Bean-powered iPad rival; going worldwide Q4 2013 — LG Electronics announced today the impending arrival of its G Pad 8.3 tablet, which will officially launch at IFA 2013 next week. The company revealed that the tablet will have an 8.3-inch display screen …

More: LG Newsroom, The Verge, Electronista, Business Insider, IntoMobile, BetaNews, AllThingsD, BGR India, SlashGear, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and Android Phone Fans

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