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Michael Crider / Android Police:

Leaked Photos Of A Motorola Pre-Production Device: This May Be The Moto X+1 — We've been hearing rumors and seeing at least some evidence of a new Motorola flagship for the past few months. The Moto X was released in August of last year, which makes it just about time for a refresh in the current yearly phone cycle.

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Kevin Bullis / MIT Technology Review:

Researchers demo cheaper resistive random access memory fabrication, raising prospect of terabyte chips for smartphones — Super-Dense Computer Memory — Researchers have discovered a new way to make chips that could pack terabytes into smartphones. — A novel type of computer memory could …

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TechCrunch:

Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

With photo-based key-copying services like KeyMe, simply allowing others to view your keys poses a security problem — The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor's Home — When I broke into my neighbor's home earlier this week, I didn't use any cat burglar skills. I don't know how to pick locks.

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Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Marc Andreessen takes to Twitter to quote bad predictions about Facebook through the years — Marc Andreessen takes a walk down memory lane with Facebook doubters — Marc Andreessen has been a Facebook investor from very early on. Andreesson, who has been given to launching …

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Brendan Sasso / National Journal:

Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us — Internet service providers are urging the FCC to regulate popular websites. — The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies.

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Anil Dash / Medium:

As messages intended for friends increasingly become media fodder, what does “public” mean? — What Is Public? — It's so simple, right? — Someone could make off with all your garbage that's put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or pregnancy tests …

Tweets: @icann_atlarge, @beep, @cutting, @craigmod, @sarahkendzior and @anildash

Megha Bahree / New York Times:

Indian startups like Autowale connect auto-rickshaw drivers with riders via SMS — Text and Ride in India — PUNE, India — When Praveen Narayan Dusane first started driving an auto-rickshaw in this crowded college town, he had to hustle for every rupee. He could wait hours at a rickshaw stand for passengers.

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Lyft CEO John Zimmer on the Company's New York Debut, Regulation, and the Taxi Industry — “I do think the pace at which we’re moving to create something new and the pace at which rules are created are at odds.” — Coming to New York as an idealistic, wide-eyed upstart can be dangerous.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Skift and Lyft Blog

Tweets: @felixsalmon, @kevinroose and @mdudas

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Rocket Internet's Easy Taxi Raises $40M Series D To Expand In Asia, Latin America — Easy Taxi, Rocket Internet's taxi calling app, announced today that it has raised a Series D round of $40 million, led by Phenomen Ventures with participation from Tengelmann Ventures, the investment arm of German retail giant Tengelmann Group.

More: Xinhua News Agency and TechNode

Associated Press:

Social networks Bubblews and Bonzo Me pay users for posts that attract traffic and advertisers — Get paid for posts? Social networking's new twist — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and most other social networks are built on the premise that just about everything should be shared -except the money those posts produce.

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