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Elise Hu / NPR:

Comments sent to FCC were overwhelmingly pro net neutrality, most opposing came from templates — A Fascinating Look Inside Those 1.1 Million Open-Internet Comments — When the Federal Communications Commission asked for public comments about the issue of keeping the Internet free and open, the response was huge.

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Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:

PGP, which hasn't fundamentally evolved since the 1990s, needs to die — What's the matter with PGP? — Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google's end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal.

More: The Register. Tweets: @alex, @anonyops, @glynmoody, @jrmchale and @evacide

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Motorola plans Sept 4 event to debut Moto 360, Moto X, G sequels — The company is hosting an event in Chicago for the eagerly anticipated smartwatch, with an array of other products in tow. — Motorola Mobility's Moto 360 smartwatch will finally get its official launch.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Re/code, BGR, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Wearable World News, Electronista, Liliputing and Ausdroid

BBC:

Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety — The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. — In a statement, the authority said it had banned the app on passenger safety grounds and threatened the firm with a 25,000 euro …

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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off the network — Twitter has promised to improve and expand its policies after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off of the social network. Internet trolls bullied Robin Williams' daughter off of Twitter …

More: Gigaom, USA Today, StrictlyVC, The Verge, The Wrap, CNN, stratechery, CNET, WebProNews, Daily Mail, and FierceEnterpriseCommunications …

Zach Honig / Engadget:

YouTube refreshes television app for set-top boxes, game consoles and smart TVs — If you use YouTube's app on your TV, get ready for a new UI (finally!). The app has a much cleaner look now, in line with Google's Material Design, and includes features that you're used to seeing on your computer …

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Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Ask.com Buys Ask.fm, an Anonymous Q.&A. Start-Up — Ask, and ye shall receive. — Ask.com, the Oakland, Calif.-based company owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced on Thursday it had acquired Ask.fm, a highly popular question-and-answer website. — The move signals Ask.com's first significant push into social networking.

More: Attorney General Eric …, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Eric T. Schneiderman, ABC News, Electronista and Softpedia News

Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Q&A: Lenovo CEO on How It Plans to Grow With Smartphones — Last year, Lenovo Group became the world's largest personal-computer maker, overtaking Hewlett-Packard. Now, the Chinese company is trying to repeat the success with smartphones, competing head-on with Samsung Electronics in emerging markets.

More: Lenovo Newsroom, FierceWireless, The Next Web and Business Insider

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Gerry Shih / Reuters:

After China smartphone success, Lenovo plans leap forward overseas

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Florin T. / PhoneArena:

Meet the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 — Samsung is getting ready to launch a successor to the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3 from last year: a new device that should be called Galaxy Mega 2. While we heard about it several times before, it's only now that we get to see what the handset looks like …

More: Tech Times, DailyTech and BGR

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

Retailer leaks Galaxy Note 4 specs: 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 805, 4K video and more — While it won't be terribly long before Samsung lets us in on their little Samsung Galaxy Note 4 secret, we're eager to find out what's in store for their second half flagship ahead of its September 3rd revelation.

More: PhoneArena, 9to5Google, BGR, Mobile Geeks, AndroidGuys, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Gizmodo UK and SlashGear. Tweets: @dcseifert

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Spring, David Tisch's Latest Venture, Is Instagram For Shopping — For the past year, investor and serial entrepreneur David Tisch has been working with his brother Alan to build an enjoyable way to shop on mobile. Today, that fruits of that labor springs onto the scene.

More: The Verge, Re/code, Fortune, David Tisch, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, VentureBeat, New York Magazine and davidtisch.com

Missy Cummings / Wired:

FAA needs to speed up U.S. drone policy development and R&D strategy to compete globally — We Need to Reform Our Drone Policies (But This Isn't About Privacy) — Last week the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria using F-18 fighter jets and predator drones.

Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:

Tech executives Zuckerberg, Nadella, Costolo, Schiller, and others take “ice bucket challenge” to raise ALS awareness — Ice Bucket Challenge: Zuckerberg, Nadella and More — The “ice bucket challenge,” a campaign to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

More: ALS Association, CNET, The Verge, GeekWire, USA TODAY, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, iMore, Valleywag, PadGadget, Entrepreneur, TUAW, CNN, TmoNews, TIME, Mashable, AllFacebook and memeburn

Tweets: @pschiller, @dickc and @satyanadella

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Girls Who Code has grown from 20 students at Facebook in 2012 to 380 at 16 companies in 2014 — No boys allowed: Girls Who Code takes on gender gap — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Each morning this summer, Jazmine Fernandez hopped the subway to downtown Oakland and boarded a shuttle bus bound for Silicon Valley.

More: Sheryl Sandberg, Bloomberg and Telegraph

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Sony hopes its ‘Album of the Day’ app for iOS will make you buy digital records again — Digital music sales are beginning to slow, but Sony is hoping to reverse that trend with its new ‘Album of the Day’ app for the iPhone and iPod touch. — As the name implies, Sony will promote …

More: Business Insider, TUAW, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and iMore

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Many US companies failing to uphold EU privacy rules, privacy group claims in FTC complaint — Summary: The rules that govern how EU data is treated in the US are being violated by major tech companies, according to a privacy group in a filed complaint to the FTC. — Zack Whittaker

More: Gigaom and PC World

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