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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Tab S: 8.4-inch for $399, 10.5-inch for $499, available in July, still following Apple's lead — Samsung's razor-thin Galaxy Tab S takes another run at the iPad — The 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S tablets arrive next month — For a long time, Samsung's been trying to take down the iPad.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, Technologizer, BetaNews, Softpedia News, Computerworld, CNET News, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, The Wire, Wired, TechSpot, Android Police, Inquirer, Re/code, Washington Post, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, ZDNet, MacRumors, eWeek, Engadget, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and Ars Technica. Tweets: @reckless

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

Samsung bets big on fingerprint scanning in its war with Apples iPad — New Galaxy Tab S is thinner, lighter and first to use a high-resolution OLED screen, but is it enough to beat the iPad Air? — Samsung has beaten Apple to a fingerprint-reading tablet with the launch …

More: 9to5Google, Softpedia News and Gigaom. Tweets: @lessien

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Galaxy Tab S First Look: It's Like a Huge Galaxy S5

More: Telegraph and Daring Fireball

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

Samsung Galaxy Tab S hands-on video: AMOLED screens outshine iPad, accessories versatile but awkward

More: IntoMobile, Computerworld, Guardian and The Next Web. Thanks:@mspoonauer

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Sources: Ali Rowghani lacked product instincts, had little success with messaging and curation — What Happened Inside Twitter That Led To The COO Leaving The Company — Twitter COO Ali Rowghani is out of the company in something of a surprise. — Although Kara Swisher …

More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Electronista, Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney.com and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @jonrussell and @firstadopter

Mike Isaac / Medium:

Twitter's once-independent Media team will report to the Marketing and Communications division

More: Forbes. Thanks:@mattlynley. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Twitter Media Head Chloe Sladden Is Leaving

More: Hollywood Reporter, Pulse 2.0, Variety, Mashable and TechCrunch

Tweets: @chloes, @chloes, @rsarver, @anildash and @chloes

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Twitter COO Steps Down From Job on Twitter, But Stays as Strategic Advisor

More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, San Francisco Chronicle, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, bizjournals, BuzzFeed, Valleywag, SocialTimes and VatorNews

Tweets: @rowghani and @sarahfrier

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Exclusive: Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With ‘Google Fit’ — Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company's plans.

More: Engadget, The Register, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Droid Life, CNET News, Connectedly, VentureBeat, SlashGear and Business Insider

Tweets: @ghideas and @halletecco

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Adds Tap-And-Hold Video Sharing, Another Snapchat Feature — Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar to Snapchat.

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, memeburn, AppleInsider, MacRumors, App Advice and The Next Web

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups — New study estimates $22 billion in VC funding was lost due to troll lawsuits. — Patent reform advocates have long argued that “patent trolls”—companies that do nothing but sue over patents—are harmful to innovation, not just a plague on big companies.

More: VentureBeat, ITProPortal and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tweets: @richardgordon5 and @kevinmarks

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

US will auction bitcoins seized from Silk Road, bidders must deposit $200,000 — The United States government announced Thursday that it will sell the nearly 30,000 bitcoins it seized last year from Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for drugs and hitmen, in a 12-hour auction on June 27.

More: U.S. Marshals Service, CoinDesk, Engadget, The Register, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, PC World, Associated Press, Ars Technica, newsBTC, Bloomberg, Motherboard, Gawker, Wired, CNET News, Associated Press, Reuters, Deep Dot Web, Forbes and SlashGear. Tweets: @cdixon

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Google's Quantum Paper framework to unify Android and web app UIs, will be open to developers — Exclusive: Quantum Paper And Google's Upcoming Effort To Make Consistent UI Simple — There have been a lot of leaks and rumors leading up to Google I/O this year.

More: Droid Life, Phandroid, Neowin, Pocketnow, Android and Me, 9to5Google, BGR, Ubergizmo and Android Authority

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 builds in the technologies Apple needs for an iWatch — iOS 8 adds several important enhancements to the iPhone and iPad, such as improved notifications, health-tracking, and a more advanced camera application, but the new operating system's most significant feature may be the groundwork technologies …

More: Realmac Blog, MacDailyNews and BGR. Thanks:@markgurman

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Firefox 31 beta arrives with search on new tab page, revamped developer tools, and Android runtime improvements — Following the release of Firefox 30 just two days ago, Mozilla today updated its Firefox Beta channel to version 31 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

More: Mozilla Hacks, Future Releases, Softpedia News, Good E-Reader, CNET News and Good E-Reader

Chris P. / PhoneArena:

Metal Samsung Galaxy F gets snapped next to the Galaxy S5, boasts LG G3-like slim bezels — Somebody, somewhere, appears to have somehow gotten his hands on the yet-unreleased Samsung Galaxy F (previously referred to as Galaxy S5 Prime), and, so far, he's had a fun time teasing us.

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

P.F. Chang's Confirms Payment Card Breach: Reverts to Imprinting Devices — After saying earlier this week that it was investigating reports of a data breach related to payment cards used at its locations, P.F. Chang's China Bistro confirmed on Thursday that credit and debit card data has been stolen from some of its restaurants.

More: P.F. Chang's Restaurant …, CNET News, PC World, Krebs on Security, The Register, Softpedia News and CoinDesk. Thanks:@securityweek

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

PayPal Launches PassPort To Lure More International Sales From Merchants — PayPal and its owner eBay have been through a few tough rounds in the ring these last few months, facing calls from Carl Ichan to split the company (finished for now), a Twitter encounter with a departing …

More: PayPal Forward, Bloomberg, CNET News and ITworld.com

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple says some European iPhone USB adapters ‘may pose a safety risk’, announces free replacement program — Apple has today announced a replacement program for some European iPhone USB adapters. The company says that it has identified that some USB adapters bundled with iPhones …

More: Apple

The Indian Express:

Infosys names SAP's Vishal Sikka as CEO; chairman Narayana Murthy to step down — Vishal Sikka will take over from current Chief Executive S.D. Shibulal, one of the engineers who founded Infosys, on August 1. — Infosys Ltd named former SAP AG top executive Vishal Sikka as Chief Executive Officer …

More: Quartz, The Economic Times, The Economic Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Quartz

Nick Statt / CNET News:

Yves Behar-designed smart cup Vessyl measures caffeine, sugar, and calories in beverages, ships in early 2015 for $200 — Vessyl smart cup can tell Coke from Pepsi — This powerful, sensor-fitted cup identifies what you're drinking and tells you how it affects your health and hydration needs.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Streaming Anime Distributor Crunchyroll Acquires Video Discovery Startup Redux — Video distributor Crunchyroll wants to bring anime and other Asian content to a wide range of connected TVs and other platforms. Which explains why it's announcing today that it's acquired video discovery startup Redux …

More: VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0, Streaming Media, Electronista and StreamDaily

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