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Apple wearable to be revealed September 9 won't ship until early 2015 — Code/red: Apple Wearable Won't Ship Until Next Year — // HAPPENING TODAY — The 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters. — Beloved cryptographer Hal Finney is being cryopreserved following his recent, tragic death from ALS.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
An inside look at Apple's media strategy, its earlier control-obsessed regime, and the transformation with the departure of Jobs disciple Katie Cotton — Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple's Mastery of the Media — “Beautifully, unapologetically plastic.”
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| 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.
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Nokia announces HERE maps for Android, launching exclusively for Samsung Galaxy smartphones with offline access — Samsung unveiled its new new smartwatch yesterday, the Tizen-powered Gear S that's capable of making calls and going online without relying on a smartphone.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mikael Hed Steps Down As CEO Of Wavering Angry Birds Maker Rovio, Pekka Rantala Steps In — A changing of the hoodie at Rovio, the Finalnd-based creator of the catapulting Angry Birds series of casual games that has seen its profit fall by more than half in the last year …
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| Kif Leswing / Gigaom: |
Samsung's Gear S is the first third-party smartwatch to get Nike+ — Samsung's Gear S smartwatch will come with a Nike+ Running app pre-installed that will take advantage of the device's large screen and cellular connection. — The Samsung Gear S was only announced earlier this week and it's already compiling a nice library of apps.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
iOS search app “In-App Search” provides deep link results that launch inside apps, supports 33 iPhone apps at launch — In-App Search Is An App That Searches In Your Apps — Are users itching for a better way to search through the information contained within their mobile apps, bypassing the web and traditional search?
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| 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.
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| Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian: |
Apple tells developers they may not sell personal health data to advertisers — The company has tightened its privacy rules in run up to announcements of new technology expected in September — Apple has tightened its privacy rules relating to health apps ahead of next month's product launch … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Former staff blames LG's failed webOS acquisition on culture clash, infighting and corporate politics — A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition — webOS was supposed to become LG's way forward in the smart TV space, and the team behind it was to bring change to the company.
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Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @reckless, @adora, @gigaom, @tomkrazit, @jank0 and @benedictevans. Thanks:@laurahazardowen
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
JustFab raises $85M at what sources say is a $1B valuation — JustFab has closed an $85 million round of funding, the company's co-founder and co-CEO Adam Goldenberg confirmed to Pando today. The round was led by new investor Passport Special Opportunity Fund, and included participation …
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