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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple builds a hidden structure at Flint Center, site of Mac unveiling, ahead of Sept. 9 event — Apple Building Massive Structure at Flint Center for iPhone 6 Event — Apple today issued invitations for its upcoming iPhone 6 event on September 9, which is also said to include its much-anticipated wearable device.

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple announces special event for September 9 with tagline “Wish we could say more” — Apple announces special event for Sept. 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a special event being held on Sept. 9, 2014 at 10:00 am. — Typically Apple's events are held either …

More: Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Re/code, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Business Insider, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, NEWS.com.au, CNET, 9to5Mac, Mashable, CNET, josh.iojosh.io, Ubergizmo, Engadget, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Forbes, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, App Advice, Washington Post, Gigaom, iMore, Financial Times, Guardian, iLounge, CNBC, Touch Arcade and MacRumors

Tweets: @inafried, @mattbuchanan, @jyarow, @monkbent and @tim

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Google X unveils Project Wing, its drone delivery program; tested in secret for two years — Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program — A zipping comes across the sky. — A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia.

More: BBC, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Slate, New York Times, GeekWire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Android Police, Gigaom, Engadget, Washington Post, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Re/code, Wired, CNET, Android Community, Business Insider, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Android Central, SlashGear, Sydney Morning Herald, Politico, Seeking Alpha and Mashable

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @sequoia, @amir, @marshallk and @athertonkd

Christina Bonnington / Wired:

Our Sources Say the Next iPhone Will Include NFC Mobile Payments — Platforms like Google Wallet, Isis, and Square have been around for years, while Apple has remained curiously silent on the mobile payments front. Well not anymore. — The company's next iPhone will feature its own payment platform …

Steven Levy / Wired:

Behind Todd Park's new Silicon Valley-based mission to attract talent to reboot Federal IT, as he departs US CTO role — America's Tech Guru Steps Down—But He's Not Done Rebooting the Government — Todd Park (third from left) with members of his digital team (from left): Haley Van Dyck …

More: White House.gov Blog, Re/code and Engadget

Tweets: @johnolilly, @digiphile, @csoghoian, @lukefretwell, @granick, @stevenlevy and @aneeshchopra

Thanks:@emilydreyfuss

Bloomberg:

Google X VP Megan Smith is top candidate for US CTO role — Google's Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer — America is close to getting a new chief technology officer: Megan Smith, a longtime executive at Google Inc. and most recently a vice president at its secret lab, Google X.

More: CNET, ZDNet, Fortune, Reuters, The Hill, bizjournals, bizjournals, Federal Computer Week, Business Insider and Nextgov. Tweets: @danprimack

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

IFTTT raises $30M from Norwest Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz to integrate with internet-connected hardware — With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things — One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet.

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, bizjournals, The Daily Dot, SlashGear and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:

Google drops authorship support, including authors in results, citing poor adoption by webmasters and low value to searchers — It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results — After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end ... at least for now.

More: John Mueller, CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Marketing Land

Tweets: @ourmaninchicago, @jeremys and @moorehn

Bloomberg:

Deutsche Telekom Said Open to T-Mobile Talks at $35/Share — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is willing to negotiate a sale of its T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) unit, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., if an offer values the business at $35 a share or more, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

More: The Register, Tech Times, CNET, Seeking Alpha, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Tech Trader Daily and TmoNews

Tweets: @miriamgottfried and @emilychangtv

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Apple updates HealthKit privacy rules to keep your health data out of the hands of advertisers — Ahead of the September 9 event, Apple has updated its HealthKit privacy policy for developers to keep user data out of the hands of advertisers and data brokers.

More: Guardian, AppleInsider, Financial Times, VentureBeat, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN and Cult of Mac

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Facebook testing feature in mobile app to enable keyword search of old posts from friends — Facebook Test Lets Users Search Old Posts by Keyword — Facebook Inc. (FB) is testing a feature for its mobile application that lets people search through old posts from friends by keyword …

More: Engadget, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft CEO Nadella to visit China amid antitrust probe - source — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is set to visit China in late September, the company said on Thursday, as the Chinese government conducts an antitrust investigation into the world's largest software company.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Seattle Times blogs, CNET, GeekWire, International Business Times, WinBeta, Fortune, Associated Press, Electronista, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Windows Phone Central and SiliconBeat

Chris Gayomali / Fast Company:

Samsung's latest wearable, the Gear Circle, a Bluetooth-enabled, vibrating necklace with earbuds to pair with a smartphone — Would You Wear This Dorky Headphone Necklace By Samsung? — On Wednesday night, Samsung quietly lifted the curtains off another set of wearable electronics …

More: Tom's Guide, International Business Times, CNN-IBN News, Business Insider, Ubergizmo and IntoMobile

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Samsung announces Gear S smartwatch with 3G connectivity, 2" screen, dual-core 1GHz CPU, running Tizen

More: The Verge, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, TechSpot, Gigaom, Forbes, eWeek, Guardian, Computerworld, Neowin, Geeky Gadgets, Electronista, Phones Review and Inquirer

Tweets: @zpower, @markgurman, @stevekovach and @inafried

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's open sourced tool Kubernetes can now be used to manage Docker containers on Azure — Microsoft Azure Now Supports Google's Kubernetes For Managing Docker Containers — Back in June, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for managing Docker containers with the help …

More: MS OpenTech, Microsoft Azure Blog and Gigaom

Felix Gillette / Businessweek:

An entire Hollywood-like industry has grown around YouTube creators — Hollywood's Big-Money YouTube Hit Factory — When Brian Robbins first told people he was going full time into the YouTube (GOOG) business, his colleagues in Hollywood were incredulous. “My agent, my lawyer, my dad—people thought I was crazy,” he says.

More: SocialTimes and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @bw. See also Mediagazer

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Leap Motion Hooks Up to Oculus for Controller-Free Virtual Reality — Earlier this year, Facebook turned “Oculus” into a household name by betting $2 billion that virtual reality is ready for prime time. — One problem with that vision, as we've written before, is that there's no clear standard …

More: Leap Motion Blog, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Gigaom and TechCrunch

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