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Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
Google to launch “YouTube Music Key”, a $10/month, ad-free subscription service with offline support  —  Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key  —  Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Play Music.
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
HTC One M8 with Windows Phone launches exclusively on Verizon today at $99 on-contract  —  HTC's One M8 now available with Windows Phone, but only on Verizon  —  In case you've wondered what a flagship Android phone would look like if it ran Windows Phone, it looks like you'll get your chance to find out.
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
HTC One With Windows Phone: Another Great Phone You Won't Buy  —  The Best-Designed Android Phone Is Being Released With Windows Phone 8.1  —  Windows Phone smartphones have gotten quite good, so why doesn't anyone buy them?  Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern tests the HTC One (M8) with Windows Phone 8.1 to find out.
More: TechCrunch.  Tweets: @mims, @fmanjoo and @whatthebit
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
Google Is Planning to Offer Accounts to Kids Under 13  —  Google plans to offer accounts to children under 13 years old for the first time, a move that will take the world's largest Internet search provider into a controversial and operationally complex new market.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
PayPal Rolls Out One-Touch Mobile Checkout For Apps  —  Mobile commerce today is still challenging with complicated checkout flows that see users bouncing between screens, and having to tap out their personal information on tiny screens and keyboards.  PayPal today is hoping to change …
Barb Darrow / Gigaom:
DataGravity says it's time for your storage to smarten up already  —  Paula Long, co-founder of EqualLogic, is back at it again, this time applying integrated search and analytics to your storage so it's no longer a black box.  —  DataGravity, the thus-far secretive startup co-founded …
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Uber launches on-demand delivery service “Corner Store” in Washington D.C.  —  Uber launches on-demand product deliveries in Washington D.C.  —  Update 6:19 a.m. PT: Uber confirms that the service will launch today.  —  Uber is set to launch an on-demand product delivery service …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Big data scientists spend a lot of their time in cleaning, collecting, and preparing unruly data  —  For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights  —  Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps.  The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend …
More: Forbes and Beyond Search.  Tweets: @scrawford and @inkblurt
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Sprint Launches New Price War, Debuts $100 Family Plan  —  Sprint on Monday announced new family rate plans allowing up to 10 lines to share 20 gigabytes worth of data for $100 per month.  —  It's the first move in what is expected to be far more aggressive pricing under newly named CEO Marcelo Claure.
Tim Bajarin / TIME:
Meet Levi's Stadium, the Most High-Tech Sports Venue Yet  —  Most people have heard of smartphones, smart cars and smart homes.  Say hello to the smart stadium.  —  More  —  Intel Promises Faster, Lighter and Thinner with Its New Processor LineQuestions About a 5.5-inch iPhoneWho …
More: PandoDaily.  Tweets: @fazz
Simon Cohen / VentureBeat:
Noke Bluetooth app-enabled padlock achieves Kickstarter funding goal of $100K  —  Noke is a Bluetooth padlock you unlock with your phone  —  Oh, the ol' padlock.  At this time of year it is on the back to school shopping lists of millions of students.  —  It's also the inspiration behind …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Verizon tops rivals in new RootMetrics wireless report, but T-Mobile gains in cities  —  Verizon comes out ahead of rivals AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in nearly every category of performance — including reliability, data speeds and phone calls — in a new study of the U.S. wireless market by RootMetrics.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Square expands its cash advance service for small businesses after deal with Victory Park Capital  —  Square Expands Its Cash Advance Service  —  Square, the e-commerce start-up, announced on Tuesday that it would broaden the scope of its cash advance program through a multimillion-dollar deal …
Major Nelson / Xbox Wire:
First of its kind reddit experience launching on Xbox One, New MTV app and Twitch update available soon  —  In June we announced more than 45 new entertainment experiences coming to Xbox One and we continue to deliver on that commitment with additions like ReddX, an app that we are confident …

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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