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September 20, 2014, 2:40 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Oculus Reveals Its New “Crescent Bay” Developer Kit With 360-Degree Head Tracking And Headphones — Oculus gave the world the first look at its new developer kit Crescent Bay today at Oculus' Connect conference, which you can watch live here. Crescent Bay has a faster frame rate …

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Oculus VR, PC World, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Forbes, Re/code and PC Gamer

Tweets: @joshconstine, @heyheyesj, @tim, @startupljackson, @tim, @mattrix and @oculus

Thanks:@joshconstine

Hayden Dingman / PC World:

Oculus open-sources original Rift developer kit's firmware, schematics, and mechanics — Kicking off the Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles this weekend, Oculus's Nirav Patel announced that the original Oculus Rift developer kit (DK1) is now fully open-source, with the exception …

More: GitHub, CNET, TechCrunch, Electronista, VR Focus, Joystiq and Kotaku

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Verizon's VoLTE, enabling simultaneous voice/data and HD voice, now working on iPhone 6/6 Plus, LG G2, Samsung Galaxy S5 — Simultaneous Voice/Data, HD Voice Now Available to Verizon iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Users — Verizon began rolling out its Advanced Calling service earlier this week …

More: Business Insider, Gigaom, Verizon Wireless Promotions, DSLreports, AppleInsider, Electronista, Windows Phone Central and iMore

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft delays Xbox One launch in China from September 23 to sometime later this year — Microsoft delays Xbox One launch in China — Gamers in China hoping to get their hands on the Xbox One will have to wait a little longer than expected. Microsoft announced late Friday that …

More: VentureBeat, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, Polygon, hngn.com, WinBeta and Re/code

Larry Kim / WordStream:

Creating a Google+ profile is no longer mandatory when signing up for Gmail — Mandatory Google+ Gmail Integration Quietly Shelved — Google has gone to valiant lengths to convince us that rumors of Google+'s demise have been greatly exaggerated, but Google is no longer forcing new Gmail users …

More: The Verge, The Register, Marketing Land, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Android Central and Canadianreviewer.com

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo's Core Business Value Cut in Half to $6.8 Billion After Alibaba IPO — As Alibaba shares soared in their first day of trading on Friday, the value that investors are placing on Yahoo 's core business was sliced in half to about $6.8 billion. — That's because Yahoo still owns …

More: Fortune, Engadget, Ars Technica, Businessweek, Quartz and Business Insider

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

Alibaba closes first day of trading on NYSE at $93.89 per share, up 38% from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Closes Up 38% at $93.89, Volume Falls Off — Alibab Group Holdings (BABA), after opening at $92.70, up 36% from its offer price of $68, slipped in afternoon trading then steadily worked …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Reuters, Computerworld, The Next Web, Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ZDNet, Business Insider, Forbes, Bloomberg and Bloomberg. Tweets: @sama. See also Mediagazer

Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Blog:

Tweet-a-Program: tweet a Wolfram Language program to @WolframTaP, and a bot returns the result — Introducing Tweet-a-Program — In the Wolfram Language a little code can go a long way. And to use that fact to let everyone have some fun, today we're introducing Tweet-a-Program.

More: Engadget

Jonathan Zdziarski / Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain:

With iOS 8, forensics tools can still obtain your camera reel, third-party app data, iTunes media, and more — Your iOS 8 Data is Not Beyond Law Enforcement's Reach... Yet. — In a recent announcement, Apple stated that they no longer unlock iOS (8) devices for law enforcement.

More: Gizmodo, Gizmodo, Business Insider, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Businessweek, TUAW, Wired and Yahoo Tech

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Expanded encryption in iOS and Android will provoke new legal battles over the privacy of passcodes — Apple And Google Will Force A Legal Battle Over The Privacy Of Your Passcode — Apple wants the world to know that it's really, really serious about privacy.

More: Washington Post, Tech Times, Digital Trends, FierceMobileIT News and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @mattblaze

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Evolution, a Silk Road successor tolerating trade in stolen credit cards, triples its listings in five months — The Dark Web Gets Darker With Rise of the ‘Evolution’ Drug Market — In the digital drug trade as in the physical one, taking out one kingpin only makes room for another ready to satisfy the market's endless demand.

Tweets: @propublica

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

Hearst Starts Silicon Valley Development Unit, Acquires BranchOut Assets — Hearst Corp. on Friday announced the launch of a new digital development unit in Silicon Valley to build new apps and services across the publisher's diversified media properties. — Leading the new group …

More: Capital New York, Talking New Media, WWD and Hearst Corporation. See also Mediagazer

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