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Nicole Lee / Engadget:

New Moto X available later this month starting at $499 unlocked, with bigger 5.2" 1080p display, aluminum frame, and leather back option — The Moto X returns: high-end specs, aluminum frame and leather back — As a half dozen of my colleagues toil away in Berlin bringing you the latest news …

David Pierce / The Verge:

Motorola Hint is a $149 Bluetooth earbud with smartphone voice control features, coming this fall — The Moto Hint is the future of the Bluetooth headset — Are we all about to start talking to our phones again? — Don't call the Motorola Hint a Bluetooth headset. It makes everyone at Motorola wince.

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, Electronista, AnandTech, SlashGear, Laptop Mag, TechCrunch and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @longzheng and @piercedavid

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

The New Moto G Offers A Bigger Screen And Removable Storage At $179.99 Unlocked — Along with a new flagship Moto X, Motorola is taking the wraps off its new Moto G today, and the new version of its affordable smartphone continues to be one of the best values in modern mobile devices.

More: The Verge, CNET, Android Police, BGR, VentureBeat, TmoNews, Android and Me, Electronista, BGR, TechSpot, AnandTech, Phandroid, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, SlashGear, Engadget and Guardian

Chris Chavez / Phandroid:

Motorola's Turbo Charger adds 8 hours of battery life to your Moto X (2nd Gen) in 15 minutes

More: Android Police, 9to5Google, GSMArena Blog, AndroidHeadlines.com, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, Ubergizmo and Technology Personalized

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Motorola brings its Moto Maker custom smartphone designs to the UK

More: Engadget and Android Police

David Pierce / The Verge:

Moto 360 review: understated elegance, first “real” smartwatch, but battery lasts less than a day — Moto 360 review — Motorola's long-awaited smartwatch is finally ready for your wrist — I lost my phone this morning. — Normally that's impossible.

More: Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, BGR, Android Police, USA Today, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Guardian, 9to5Google, Engadget and Wearable Tech Insider. Tweets: @piercedavid

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:

Moto 360 hands-on: 1.6" Gorilla Glass display, water resistant, 4GB storage, 512MB RAM, leather strap feels natural — Hands-on: Moto 360 is a great leap forward for Android smartwatches — The Moto 360 on its wireless charging stand. — Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica

More: Re/code, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile and AnandTech

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

The Moto 360 Smartwatch Is Finally Here, Available Today For $249.99

More: Electronista, The Next Web, MacRumors and SlashGear

AppleInsider:

Next-gen iPad Air with Touch ID, new gold color option may also debut at Apple's Sept. 9 event — At a media event already expected to be packed with the unveiling of two new iPhone models and a so-called “iWatch,” the company may also showcase its next full-size iPad Air with Touch ID fingerprint sensor …

More: 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, Laptop Mag, TUAW, Softpedia News, App Advice, Business Insider, Pocketnow and CNET

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

New, larger iPhones to offer one-handed mode for easier typing; iWatch circuit board is “tiny” — Apple Plans Smartwatch and Larger iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple wants to make a big splash, it returns to its history. — Thirty years ago at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts …

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Tim Cook says Apple will send alerts when users add devices or change passwords, and broaden its use of two-factor authentication — Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users — Apple Will Alert Users Via Email and Push Notifications — Apple Inc. said it plans additional steps …

More: Washington Post, ABC News, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, TheStreet.com, New York Times, Fox News, BetaNews, InfoWorld, Telegraph, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Cult of Mac and Re/code. Tweets: @caseynewton

Christina Warren / Mashable:

How I Hacked My Own iCloud Account, for Just $200 — Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe — or unsafe — various cloud service providers are.

More: The Register, Fox News and Gizmodo

Jonathan / Web Policy:

Coursera privacy vulnerabilities found by Stanford law prof; database of 9M users downloadable, all class enrollments visible to all teachers — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera — I'm excited to be teaching Stanford Law's first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance.

More: Help Net Security and The Next Web. Tweets: @ashk4n, @audreywatters, @rcalo, @nicoleperlroth, @csoghoian, @jonathanmayer, @kashhill and @trevortimm

Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal:

LG G Watch R will be available in retail stores Oct. 14 with a price tag higher than original $230 LG G Watch — LG Sets a Date for Its New Round-Faced Smartwatch — South Korea's LG Electronics on Thursday spilled out some more details on its coming G Watch R smartwatch …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, BGR, FierceWireless, Tech Times, Businessweek, The Register, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Inquirer and Gotta Be Mobile

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

A closer look at LG's circular G Watch R (hands-on)

More: 9to5Google, Inquirer, Softpedia News and Tech Times

Derek Walter / TechHive:

Hands-on: Tempo brings its super-smart calendaring to iPad — Tempo, a powerful calendar app for the iPhone, goes beyond just displaying events and dates, instead pulling together multiple calendars and contextual data to serve as a digital assistant. It's a productivity powerhouse on the iPhone …

More: The Next Web, App Advice, iMore and iClarified

Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat:

Study: In social advertising, YouTube converts more customers than anyone else — When it comes to paid advertising on social platforms, YouTube is the clear winner in introducing new products and helping consumers make their purchasing decisions, according to a new study Aol Platforms released today.

More: AdExchanger, MediaPost, Tubefilter, ReelSEO Video Marketing and Beyond Search

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe appeal $324.5M anti-poaching lawsuit settlement rejection — Apple, Google appeal rejection of $325 million hiring settlement — (Reuters) - Four technology companies including Apple and Google blasted a U.S. judge for rejecting a proposed $324.5 million settlement …

More: 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Gigaom, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Electronista and ZDNet

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Paypal introduces an SDK for its credit card reader, PayPal Here — PayPal Expands Further Into Offline Retail And Mobile Payments With New PayPal Here SDK — PayPal this morning is rolling out a new product designed to help its business move further into offline retail.

More: PayPal Forward, bizjournals, The Next Web and TheDomains.com

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

Intel's Core M Strategy: CPU Specifications for 9mm Fanless Tablets and 2-in-1 Devices — Continuing our coverage of Intel's 14nm Technology, another series of press events held by Intel filled out some of the missing details behind the strategy of their Core M platform.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, PC World, Business Insider and Intel Newsroom

Brandon Butler / Network World:

Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud — Cloud migration services are an upcoming battlefield in IaaS — One of the big problems with IaaS cloud computing is how to get apps up into the cloud. There are a variety of emerging technologies for solving this problem …

More: Microsoft Azure Blog, VentureBeat and CloudWedge

Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net:

Oculus founders interviewed, say they want the consumer Rift to sell in $200-$400 price range — Oculus answers the big Rift questions — Does it still care about games? — A year ago I told Palmer Luckey's story, about how he'd invented what would become Oculus Rift in his parent's garage.

More: PC World, Associated Press, ITworld.com, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo and Engadget

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Former Twitter Chief Scientist Launches Steven, An Emoji-Based Social App — I can't quite put my finger on why I keep using this new app called Steven - yes, Steven, like a boy's name - but I do. The app itself is sort of silly - it offers you a way to log your activities and location using emoji …

More: Marketing Land and Steven

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Beats co-founder Steven Lamar introduces Roam's first product, Ropes, $299 wireless earbuds — Disgruntled Beats co-founder starts new audio company with $299 earbuds — Roam's Ropes are Bluetooth headphones that sit on your neck — About a week before Apple agreed to buy Beats for $3 billion …

More: Fortune, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, Businessweek, Wired and Mashable

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Apple Said to Negotiate Deep Payments Discounts from Big Banks — Apple reportedly has reached deals to lower its card transaction fees with five of the largest financial institutions in the nation as part of the Silicon Valley giant's to-be-launched payments venture.

More: Wired, Gigaom, PandoDaily, AppleInsider, The Daily Dot, Mobile Marketing Watch, BGR, ParisLemon, iMore, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and Electronista. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple officially launches revamped iTunes Connect demoed during WWDC — Ahead of next week's iPhone 6 announcement, Apple has finally debuted the new design for its iTunes Connect web app that was initially shown off during the WWDC Platforms State of the Union.

More: MacRumors, MacStories, AppleInsider and App Advice

Signe Brewster / Gigaom:

MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis steps down, will lead new ‘Innovation Workshop’ at Stratasys — MakerBot president Jenny Lawton will step up to lead the five-year-old company, which was purchased by Stratasys last year. — Bre Pettis, CEO of the popular consumer 3D printer company MakerBot …

More: 3DPrint.com, CNET, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

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