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August 22, 2014, 2:00 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th — Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th …

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise — Michael Daniel is the White House's cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent interview with GovInfoSecurity …

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:

A federal court rejects Aereo's request to argue it's a cable company — Aereo's seemingly last-ditch argument to save itself won't be given an airing in court, according to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. — Instead, if the shuttered streaming video company wants to keep fighting for its survival …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Electronista, USA Today and Bloomberg. See also Mediagazer

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google to include temporary steering wheel and pedal system when testing autonomous cars in response to new California DMV rules — A Google Car Without a Steering Wheel? Not So Fast, California Says — Google caused a stir earlier this year when it unveiled a self-driving car without …

More: Ars Technica, The Next Web, Guardian, Connectedly, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Engadget, SlashGear and 9to5Google

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Wikipedia blocks edits from Congressional IP address again after edits from “obvious transphobe” — ‘Orange is the New Black’ fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban — For the third time this summer, computers in the House have been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a string of controversial edits.

More: Engadget, Ars Technica, The Week Magazine, VentureBeat, The A.V. Club, The Raw Story, Mashable, PandoDaily, Styleite and Mediaite. Tweets: @piper. See also Mediagazer

Malathi Nayak / Reuters:

Ouya partners with Xiaomi to bring its games to the Chinese smartphone maker's streaming boxes and smart TVs — Exclusive: Ouya scores Xiaomi partnership to take games to China — (Reuters) - U.S video game service Ouya is turning to Asia to capture the growth that has eluded the startup on its own home turf.

More: Tech in Asia, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Central and Gamasutra

Allie Jones / Gawker:

After Twitter suspensions, ISIS moves to decentralized Diaspora to avoid censorship — ISIS Finally Finds a Social Network That Can't Suspend Their Accounts — After ISIS militants and supporters disseminated video and images of James Foley's brutal beheading on Tuesday …

More: The diaspora* blog, BBC, PC Pro, Christian Science Monitor, VPN Creative, RYOT News, Channel 4, ABC News, ITProPortal, Business Insider and Guardian. See also Mediagazer

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple removes Secret app from Brazilian App Store for not conforming with local laws — Following a recent ruling that Apple would have ten days to remove the anonymous social app Secret from its Brazilian App Store, Apple has complied with the order. The justification for the removal …

More: AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacNN, App Advice and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Majority Of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place In Mobile Apps — U.S. users are now spending the majority of their time consuming digital media within mobile applications, according to a new study released by comScore this morning. That means mobile apps, including the number 1 …

More: comScore, Inc., Talking New Media, Digital Music News, Beyond Devices and Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

Report: eBay telling candidates for PayPal CEO role it may spin off the unit as early as next year — EBay considering spinning off Paypal - report — (Reuters) - EBay Inc is considering spinning out its fast-growing payments unit PayPal as soon as next year, news website The Information reported, citing sources.

More: The Information, VentureBeat, Fortune, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, TheStreet.com, TechSpot, SlashGear, CNBC, bizjournals, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, BetaBoston and All Content

Tweets: @amir and @rabois

NBC News:

Flappy Bird creator launches Swing Copters, available for iPhone and Android, for free — ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen Launches New Game ‘Swing Copters’ - NBC News — The creator of the ultra-difficult game sensation, “Flappy Bird,” has released a new title — and believe it or not, it's even harder.

More: BGR, The Next Web, Rolling Stone, Know Your Mobile, Develop Feed, NDTV Gadgets, Tech2 and Gotta Be Mobile

Seth Weintraub / Electrek:

Tesla Model S software update will bring ability to start car with iPhone — Tesla Model S OS v6.0 to begin rolling out to customers with Calendar app, Traffic/navigation improvements, power savings and iPhone starting — There are some impressive new updates as part …

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup.com, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear and Connectedly. Thanks:@markgurman

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, according to OpenSignal's latest fragmentation report — The much-maligned Android fragmentation problem has blighted the mobile operating system for years, though Google has been steadily taking corrective measures in recent times. The issue?

More: OpenSignal, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Greenbot, Droid Life, SlashGear, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Android Central, Pocketnow and Quartz

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware — The Internet of Things gets a lot of hype, but its rollout is slow and it will take a long time for consumers to upgrade existing, non-connected devices that still work fine into something that can communicate with computing gadgets like smartphones.

More: Reality matters, Engadget, Washington Post, Gigaom, The Next Web, Quartz, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, SlashGear, GeekWire and The Verge. Tweets: @fmanjoo. Thanks:@stevecheney

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

Mobile apps could be abused to make expensive phone calls — A security precaution skipped in mobile applications such as Facebook's Messenger could be abused to make an expensive phone call at a victim's expense, a developer contends. — Phone numbers often appear as links on a mobile device.

More: algorithm.dk. Tweets: @neculaesei, @j0hnnyxm4s, @ashk4n and @ashk4n

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Dropbox Loses High-Profile Design Head Soleio — In a Facebook post tonight, Dropbox's high-profile head designer Soleio said he was leaving his job at the cloud storage company. — “Today marks my last day as a full-time Dropboxer,” he wrote. “I'm transitioning back to serving as a company advisor over the coming month.”

More: Wall Street Journal

Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

Zoosk debuts Photo Verification on iOS to confirm authenticity of profile photos — This Dating Site Is Teaching the Internet an Important Lesson About Anonymity — Online dating site Zoosk is rolling out a new feature that lets users verify the authenticity of profile pictures.

More: AskMen, Zoosk and PC Magazine

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Google updates voice search, allows users to automatically switch between five languages — Google's Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual — Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20 percent of the population speaks …

More: Inside Search, Android Police and PC World

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

FDA approves AliveCor's heart arrhythmia-detecting app algorithm — Above: AliveCor's ECG app. — While the step counters and run tracker apps of the world get most of the attention, a growing number of apps in the marketplace are serving serious clinical needs.

More: Engadget, PR Newswire, Computerworld, mobihealthnews, empr.com and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @rabois

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Opera Mini becomes default browser for Microsoft's fading feature phones — Users will be ‘encouraged’ to replace stock Xpress browser with Opera Mini starting this fall — Opera Software and Microsoft have struck a deal that will replace Nokia's Xpress browser with Opera Mini on Microsoft's dying line of feature phones.

More: Opera Software, The Next Web, Reuters, Gigaom, CNET, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware Guide, Windows Phone Central, PopHerald Technology News, BetaNews, Tech Times, DailyTech and Ubergizmo

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time — By now, you might have heard that Atlantic Media's Andrew Golis is incubating a small social network inside the company. Golis came to Atlantic Media as entrepreneur-in-residence a little over a year ago …

Tweets: @nadinegoff, @laura_warne, @agolis, @jeremymbarr, @jaredbkeller and @yingworld

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Salesforce Beats In Its Fiscal Q2 With Revenue Of $1.32B, EPS OF $0.13 — After the bell, Salesforce reported its fiscal second quarter financial results, including revenue of $1.32 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.13. — The company beat estimates in the fiscal 2015 quarter …

More: PR Newswire, 24/7 Wall St., TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, ValueWalk, Reuters, Reuters, Forbes, Re/code, Bloomberg and ZDNet

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Concert Giant Ticketfly Acquires Last-Minute Ticket App WillCall — WillCall is a pretty concert app, but its weakness was a lack of deals with venues to get tickets to sell. Well no more, as today it was acquired by Ticketfly, the second-biggest concert ticket seller in America, which has relationships with thousands of venues.

More: The Next Web, Digital Music News, hypebot and ABC News. Tweets: @bdstolle. Thanks:@joshconstine

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