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Apple:
Live video from Apple's event begins shortly here  —  Apple Special Event.  October 22, 2013  —  Watch streaming video from this special event and learn more about our exciting announcements.  Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later.
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 1520: Windows Phone with 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP camera for $750  —  Is this the Windows Phone you've been waiting for?  If you've been holding out for a flagship with a 6-inch 1080p display, high-resolution PureView camera and the top-of-the-line processor, we'd suspect the answer is probably yes.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Nokia unveils 10.1″ Lumia 2520, a $499 Windows RT 8.1 tablet coming this fall with LTE and a $150 Power Keyboard
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Official Instagram Windows Phone app arriving in the ‘coming weeks’  —  Windows Phone is finally getting an official Instagram client.  After months of pressure from Nokia, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed today that an official client will be made available to Windows Phone users shortly.
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Said to Plan Android Smartwatch With Camera for Next Year  —  HTC Corp. (2498) is developing a smartwatch that uses Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software and can take pictures, according to a person familiar with the matter.  —  The watch's price, full functions and sales strategy still must …
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
In Case You Don't Realize How Fast Apple's iPad Business Has Gone Down The Tubes ...  On October 22nd, Apple is finally launching new iPads.  —  This launch can't come soon enough.  —  It wasn't long ago that Apple fans were slapping each other on the back and crowing about how, one day, Apple would be known as “the iPad company.”
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft WebApps: Mobile Web sites in Windows Phone app's clothing  —  Summary: Microsoft is packaging up some popular mobile Web sites and making them available as downloadable Windows Phone apps.  —  There are some interesting new “apps” published by Microsoft showing up in the Windows Phone store, as of late.
Richard Nieva / CNET:
Watch Apple's slick video that helped convince Cupertino to approve its new HQ  —  Lead architect Norman Foster and Apple design chief Jonathan Ive look over a model of Apple's new headquarters.  —  (Credit: City of Cupertino video/Screenshot by CNET) Last week, Apple all but got the green light …
More: AppleInsider.  Thanks:@richardjnieva
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How Apple's Address Book app could allow the NSA to harvest your contacts  —  Overlooked in last week's revelation that the National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of e-mail address books around the world was this surprising factoid: Apple makes this mass collection easier …
Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:
Owl City's Adam Young reveals himself as creator of iOS 7′s sounds (Update:removed)  —  According to his discography page, Owl City founder and singer Adam Young is the creator of iOS 7′s sounds.  While the visual design changes are most evident in the new operating system …
MIT Technology Review:
Million-Year Data Storage Disk Unveiled  —  Magnetic hard discs can store data for little more than a decade.  But nanotechnologists have now designed and built a disk that can store data for a million years or more  —  Back in 1956, IBM introduced the world's first commercial computer capable …
More: The Verge and Gizmodo.  Tweets: @smarterplanet
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft fixes Windows RT 8.1, update is back in Windows Store  —  Summary: Microsoft has fixed its Windows RT 8.1 update, which was causing installation users for some Surface RT users, and made it available again for download from the Windows Store.  —  On October 22, Microsoft returned …
Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:
Google shells out $23 Million to buy FlexyCore, the French startup behind DroidBooster  —  Google has acquired the Rennes-based startup Flexycore for $23 Million (€16.9 Million), according to L'Expansion[fr].  The startup provides optimization solutions applications …
Ruletheworld / BTC Geek:
Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin  —  Still waiting for Bitcoin to be accepted at Amazon and eBay?  Forget it.  Bitcoin will power the next generation of corporations and the only way to deal with those corporations will be through Bitcoin (that's right, they won't, or rather can't, accept fiat like US Dollar).
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Contractors Fight Over Delays to NSA Data Center  —  Contractors working on a new National Security Agency data center in Utah are fighting over the causes and responsibility for electrical failures that have caused construction delays costing up to $50 million, project officials say.

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

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