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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Conjecture on new iPhone resolutions: 1334 x 750 for the 4.7" model, 2208 x 1242 for 5.5" — Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays — Throughout the entire rumor cycle for this year's new iPhones, we've been inundated with reports of two new screen sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches.

More: Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Rusty Rants, MacDailyNews, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica and 9to5Mac

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Delivery startups return: services like Instacart try to avoid flaws of dot-com-era companies — Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It's 1999 — Last year, I was excited to hear about a new start-up in San Francisco that delivered cheap bottles of wine within an hour. It was called Rewinery, and it was fantastic.

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @bronwynbailey, @horwitzjosh, @alsaqqaf and @bryce

Nick Statt / CNET:

Coin apologizes to customers, will not charge beta testers $30 upgrade for finished product — Coin apologizes to customers, won't charge beta users $30 to upgrade — The connected credit card startup apologizes for fumbling the announcement of a product delay.

More: Engadget. Thanks:@nickstatt

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook deploys huge “Mentions Box” tablet celebs will use to answer fan questions at Emmys — Facebook to Unleash a ‘Mentions Box’ on Celebrities at the Emmys — Even if Matthew McConaughey doesn't win a lead actor Emmy for his role on HBO's “True Detective,” there may be consolation.

More: Mashable, iStrategyLabs, PC Magazine, PopHerald Technology News, USA Today and AllFacebook. Tweets: @reedalbergotti

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Tech Elites Aren't Ruining Burning Man. They Get Their Hands Dirty, Too. — Don't believe the hate. While it's a juicy narrative that rich people spoil everything the common folk hold dear, there are plenty of tech bigwigs at Burning Man that work hard to contribute and embody the event's ideals of inclusion.

More: Vox, TechCrunch, Fast Company and Salon

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshelman

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google partnering with Rockchip to make a custom SoC for Project Ara — It seems as if Google's Project Ara modular smartphone project is coming along nicely, despite a few manufacturing setbacks. There was apparently a problem with manufacturing devices for those who won units at Google I/O …

More: Google ATAP, Android Central, Android Community, PhoneDog.com, Liliputing, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon preparing ad program similar to AdWords, will replace Google ads on site — Amazon Prepares Online Advertising Program — Retailer Developing Ad Sales Program in a Challenge to Google and Microsoft — Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc. 's dominance …

More: VentureBeat, Mashable, The Register, Computerworld, Reuters, PopHerald Technology News and Fortune. Tweets: @scottthurm

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Now Piloting CPM Ads With Select Amazon Associates Publishers

More: PopHerald Technology News, TheDomains.com, Zatz Not Funny!, Ehowportal and Making Different

Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

Researchers created fake social network to access & understand China's internet censor systems — Researchers Made a Fake Social Network to Infiltrate China's Internet Censors — It's no secret that China has been censoring and controlling the information its citizens can send and receive, especially on the internet.

More: sciencemag.org, Ars Technica, New Scientist, sciencemag.org and Popular Mechanics

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Research Shows Off “DeLorean,” Its Tech For Building A Lag-Free Cloud Gaming Service — When looking to the future of gaming, few concepts get people as excited as the mythical “Netflix for gaming.” It's a concept that we've seen in multiple forms, from OnLive's early efforts to Sony's new PlayStation Now service.

More: Microsoft Research, Neowin, SlashGear, Gizmodo, PC World, The Verge, PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, bit-tech.net, CloudWedge, ITworld.com, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

British man sentenced to 33 months in prison for illicitly recording and uploading one movie — British man sentenced to nearly three years in prison for movie piracy — On Thursday, 25-year-old Philip Danks was sentenced to 33 months in jail by a Wolverhampton judge for pirating a copy of Fast and Furious 6.

More: TorrentFreak, Sky News, BBC, The Next Web, Neowin, The Drum, Daily Mail, Digital Trends and Guardian

Sean Nealon / Phys.org:

Researchers use malicious Android app to steal personal info from Gmail and other installed apps with up to 92% success rate — Hacking Gmail with 92 percent success — (Phys.org) —A team of researchers, including an assistant professor at the University of California …

More: Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Tech Times, Reuters, NBC News, ZDNet, CSO Online, PC Magazine, The Register, Fortune, SecurityWeek, BetaNews, Re/code and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @edbott

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Tor director suspects NSA and GCHQ agents are anonymously tipping off the company about vulnerabilities — NSA and GCHQ agents ‘leak Tor bugs’ alleges developer — Andrew Lewman: “The fact that we take a completely anonymous bug report allows them to report to us safely”

More: Softpedia News, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Engadget, Federal Computer Week, The Register, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ITProPortal and Gigaom. Tweets: @dangillmor

Ian Paul / PC World:

Microsoft Miracast dongle spotted at FCC ahead of Lumia event — Google's Chromecast is a hit, and now it appears Microsoft wants to replicate something similar for Windows Phone and probably Windows PCs. — Windows Phone Daily and Nokiapoweruser did some sleuthing at the Federal Communication …

More: Softpedia News, PopHerald Technology News, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, eWeek, Electronista, SlashGear, Engadget, Windows Phone Daily, Gigaom, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, Windows Phone Central and Neowin

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