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John Poole / Primate Labs Blog:

iPad Air Geekbench: Over 80% faster than iPad 4, A7 processor 100MHz faster than iPhone 5s — iPad Air Benchmarks — Geekbench 3 results for the new iPad Air are starting to appear on the Geekbench Browser. I've charted the results for all iOS 7 capable iPads below.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo, AppleTell, MacRumors, Touch Arcade, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Gotta Be Mobile and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @drbarnard and @parislemon

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air — One reason for the phenomenal success of the iPad has been Apple's ability to pack speed and versatility into a thin, light body with long battery life. It doesn't do everything a laptop does, but for many common scenarios, it has replaced the laptop as its owners' go-to device.

More: New York Times, TechCrunch, CITEworld, Telegraph, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, CNET, Digits, ZDNet, Macworld, PC World, IntoMobile, Guardian, App Advice, Cult of Mac, The Register and Electronista. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

iPad Air review: lighter, more portable, more usable and faster than any previous iPad — The iPad Air Review — It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead.

More: The Loop, CNET, USA Today, A Note from Pogue, MacRumors, Fox News, Bloomberg, PadGadget, Touch Arcade, Geek.com, TIME, Telegraph, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Gigaom, Guardian and MacRumors. Tweets: @tapbot_paul

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iPad Air light enough to supplement a laptop, fast enough to replace one for most people — The iPad Air — There are so many millions of iPad users that no simple explanation can cover all use cases. But my take, since last year, has been that the full-size iPad is best seen …

More: Virtual Pants. Tweets: @reneritchie

Washington Post:

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, The Switch, Business Insider, Betabeat, Digits, iMore, ZDNet, Techdirt, Mercury News, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gigaom, PC World, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Talking Points Memo, Gawker and WinBeta

Tweets: @csoghoian, @mattbuchanan, @a_grossman, @cwarzel, @igorbobic, @fmanjoo, @dannysullivan, @csoghoian, @jyarow and @markgurman

AllThingsD:

Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service …

More: Gigaom, BGR, VentureBeat, The Verge, eWeek, PC Magazine, Reuters, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Forbes, CNET, TechSpot, DSLreports, HotHardware.com News, Engadget, Electronista and bizjournals

Tweets: @lessien, @sai and @jyarow

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Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

California Woman Gets the First Ticket for Driving with Google Glass — This is history: the first known case of a Glass Explorer getting a ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass. — Cecilia Abadie told her story on Google+ late Tuesday night, and shared this image of the citation …

Jean-Baptiste / Forbes:

Exclusive: Intel Opens Fabs To ARM Chips — As the old adage goes, if you can't beat them, join them! Well, that's exactly what Intel finally decided to do relative to its lagging mobile business. — At the ARM developers' conference today, Intel partner Altera announced …

More: Engadget, Inquirer, CNET, stratechery, ZDNet, PhoneArena, Gigaom, AppleInsider, PC Pro, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Beat, EE Times, InfoWorld, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, iMore, SlashGear, The Droid Guy, SiliconANGLE and The Register

Tweets: @lessien and @mlchild

Reuters:

Twitter hit with $124 million lawsuit over private stock sale — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc was sued for $124 million on Wednesday by two companies that said the social media darling defrauded it into pushing forward with a doomed private sale of its shares to stoke investor interest for its initial public offering.

Steve Rosenbush / The CIO Report:

Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen — Risk-based authentication solutions can help thwart cyber intruders' attempts to access enterprise systems. By learning users' expected log-in patterns, and by setting appropriate risk thresholds for various systems …

More: CNET, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, The Raw Story and Valleywag

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Sprint swings to profit of $383M, but loses a net 313,000 customers — Sprint swung to a third-quarter profit its first period under new ownership. — The company, which reports for the first time after the completion of the SoftBank takeover and Clearwire acquisition …

More: CNET, Sprint Newsroom, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, The Verge, eWeek, AppleInsider, DSLreports, Gigaom, IntoMobile, Engadget, Electronista, Reuters, Bloomberg, BGR, TUAW, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

“Manufacturing issue” responsible for fast battery drain on “limited number” of iPhone 5Ss — Shortened Battery Life Found in Some New iPhones — The Apple iPhone 5S is supposed to have significantly longer battery life than its predecessors.

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Lenovo's New Product Engineer: Ashton Kutcher — Ashton Kutcher may have played Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs on the big screen, but his next role has him firmly in the PC camp. — Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. is hiring Mr. Kutcher to help design its tablets, its latest ploy to market its brand to U.S. consumers.

More: USA Today, The Verge, ABC News, PC Magazine, WebProNews, Bloomberg, Gizmodo and TechSpot

Tweets: @aplusk and @aplusk

Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:

Lenovo Yoga Tablets Hands-on: 3 Modes, 18-Hour Battery, From $249

More: Lenovo Newsroom, ABC News, Inquirer, Gigaom, Computerworld, Engadget, The Verge, The Register, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, App Advice, Softpedia News and eWeek. Thanks:@mspoonauer

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Nintendo sells 300,000 more Wii U consoles, but over two million more 3DS handhelds — Nintendo's just released its financial results for the last three months, and while hardware sales have increased substantially, it still made a loss. Wii U sales have rebounded significantly.

More: GeekWire, The Verge, Bloomberg, BBC, VentureBeat, Electronista, Digits, Reuters and WebProNews

Andy / TorrentFreak:

IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal — Earlier this month some pretty surprising news hit the file-sharing scene. After many years battling aggressively with the MPAA, Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt suddenly agreed to a settlement with the MPAA.

More: Digital Trends, Inquirer, Guardian, PC World, Geek.com, WebProNews and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC's future — Cisco staged a major coup Wednesday by announcing a new initiative that is meant to turn H.264 into the default codec for real-time communication on the web: the company open-sourced its H.246 codec implementation …

More: Cisco Blog, The Mozilla Blog, Brendan Eich, Engadget, The Next Web and InfoQ. Thanks:@jank0

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Cloud-Based Device Management Startup Soluto Getting Acquired By Device Insurers Asurion For Up To $130M — Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup - this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control. Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs …

More: VentureBeat, Globes Online, GeekTime and No Camels. Thanks:@ingridlunden

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Favorite, Reply, RT now directly in Twitter feed, reducing the threshold for sharing, virality — Why Twitter Just Turned Itself Inside Out — Clicking is dead, scrolling is king. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the fight for the ultimate feed. — dailydot.com

More: SocialTimes. Tweets: @michellelockett, @budip, @jayrosen_nyu and @felixsalmon

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Twitter tries to entice new users with media previews, facilitates banner ads

More: BGR, BBC, Businessweek, BRYCE DOT VC, Telegraph and SocialTimes

Tweets: @bryce, @bmorrissey and @seanbonner

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