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Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Apple Increases iPhone 5C and 5S Battery Sizes relative to iPhone 5  —  While poking through the FCC documents and piecing together a story on the network band situation for the iPhone 5S and 5C, I remembered that part of a normal disclosure is in fact battery size.
Danny Yadron / Digits:
Apple: New iPhone Not Storing Fingerprints, Doesn't Like Sweat  —  Apple's new iPhone 5S, which comes with a fingerprint scanner, won't store actual images of users' fingerprints on the device, a company spokesman confirmed Wednesday, a decision that could ease concerns from privacy hawks.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
‘Cortana’: More on Microsoft's next-generation personal assistant  —  Summary: Microsoft is working on its ‘Cortana’ rival to Apple's Siri and Google Now, which will be integrated into all flavors of Windows in the future.  —  Back in June, screen shots of an early Windows Phone operating …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 5c Pre-Orders to Begin at 12:01 AM Pacific Time on Friday, September 13  —  While Apple announced at yesterday's media event that pre-orders for the iPhone 5c will begin on Friday, September 13, the company has not yet specified at what time it will begin taking orders.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg on NSA spying: ‘The government blew it’  —  Facebook CEO calls for more transparency in interview at TechCrunch Disrupt  —  The federal government has done a bad job recently in balancing its job protecting US citizens from terrorism with its role in defending civil liberties …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Jawbone raises more than $100 million  —  Electronics maker Jawbone raises new capital to handle excess demand.  —  FORTUNE — Electronics startup Jawbone seems to have everything going for it.  More than $200 million in venture capital funding.
More: AllThingsD and Mashable
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Reeder 2 for iOS leaps back into the RSS battle  —  When Google announced that it was killing off Google Reader, it essentially issued a death notice to apps that relied on its RSS backend.  In the absence of a contingency plan, top RSS app Reeder quickly updated its iPhone app to include support …
Ian Delaney / Nokia Conversations:
Interim CEO on Nokia's future: network business, location anywhere, and advanced technologies  —  Nokia reinvented  —  Risto Siilasmaa has been the chairman of Nokia's board since his appointment in May 2012.  A Finnish entrepreneur, the founder and chairman of the board of F-Secure …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
FCC pics out an LG phone that looks like the Nexus 5  —  It's looking more and more like LG is building the Nexus 5 handset.  After an image in an official Google video for Android 4.4 showed off a new Nexus, the FCC has pictures of what appears to be the same handset.
DJ Pangburn / Motherboard:
Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and Chat Services  —  Back in 1999, Seattle-based activists formed the communication collective Riseup.net.  The site's email and chat services, among other tools, soon offered dissidents a means of encrypted communication essential to their work.
Tweets: @arrington
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
NBCU's deal with YouTube Premium signals a new phase in the streaming wars where platforms weigh deals with other companies to add content to their platforms

Harvard University Gazette:
Henry Chu, a longtime foreign correspondent and editor, is named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, after serving as deputy and interim curator

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC and Netflix sign a five-year, $500M, non-exclusive global deal for all Walking Dead spin-offs; AMC+ will get the original series for the first time in 2027

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Yahoo Monthly Active Users Are Up 20% To 800M, Including 350M On Mobile, Says Marissa Mayer
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