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September 10, 2013, 3:45 PM

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Brian Heater / Engadget:
iPhone 5s: 64-bit A7 processor, fingerprint authentication, improved camera, gold/silver/gray, from $199  —  Apple introduces the iPhone 5S, launching September 20th starting at $199  —  Ladies and gentleman, the moment you've all been waiting for.  As expected, this afternoon's day-brightening news …
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Apple Announces iPhone 5s—The Most Forward-Thinking Smartphone in the World  —  iPhone 5s Features 64-bit A7 chip, All-New 8 Megapixel iSight Camera with True Tone Flash & Introduces Touch ID Fingerprint Sensor  —  Apple® today announced iPhone® 5s, the most forward-thinking iPhone yet …
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Apple's Touch ID: A 500ppi Fingerprint Sensor Built Into iPhone 5S Home Button  —  Remember those persistent rumors of a fingerprint sensor that would be baked into the iPhone 5S?  Well, it's not a rumor any longer — Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi fingerprint sensor right in the 5S's home button.
Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
Apple gets back in the iPhone dock game with 5c and 5s docks  —  Apple didn't announce these at the keynote today, but you can finally buy first-party docks for your iPhone again.  The iPhone 5s and 5c docks are now available on the Apple Store.  The ship date is currently unknown …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S will both ship on September 20, iPhone 5 discontinued, and iPhone 4S goes free  —  At its event in Cupertino, Apple today announced the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S.  Both devices ship on September 20 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
iPhone 5c: improved front camera, slightly larger battery, in five colored plastic backs, from $99  —  Apple iPhone 5C is official, a plastic and colorful iPhone for $99  —  The new iPhone 5C is finally official.  After months of rumor and speculation, Apple has opted to introduce …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iOS 7 Ships September 18  —  Apple first unveiled iOS 7, the next version of its mobile operating system, back in June at its annual WWDC conference.  Now, three months later, it's finally ready to ship.  The OS — which is a complete reimagining of the operating system on which the iPhone …
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Some Microsoft investors want Ford's Mulally, CSC's Lawrie considered for CEO choice  —  Exclusive: Microsoft urged to put Mulally, Lawrie on CEO shortlist  —  (Reuters) - At least three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp want a turnaround expert to succeed Steve Ballmer as chief executive …
Randall Lane / Forbes:
John Sculley Just Gave His Most Detailed Account Ever Of How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple  —  After years of silence, former Apple CEO John Sculley has recently been moving more into retrospective mode.  On Thursday, Sculley gave perhaps his fullest public account ever …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post  —  Johns Hopkins acted “on inadequate information.”  —  Andrew Douglas, interim dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has apologized publicly today for asking one of his cryptography professors …
Max Chafkin / Fast Company:
An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2013  —  Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37-year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection—as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone.  So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
The Data Factory - How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow The Wealth Gap  —  You're the product, but when you're sold, it's only a lucky few who get rich.  Technology lets big companies distribute tools that turn us into volunteers who contribute our time and data while they profit.
Tweets: @joshconstine
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Look out Netflix and Google!  An analyst thinks the court may allow ISPs to charge you  —  The FCC's open internet rules that prevent ISPs from blocking content or otherwise discriminating against the packets that are flowing across their broadband networks are on trial today.

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