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September 21, 2014, 1:40 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 …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

The “Oculus Platform” Marketplace For Virtual Reality App Launches This Fall

More: Engadget, The Next Web and PC World

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine

Hayden Dingman / PC World:

Oculus open-sources original Rift developer kit's firmware, schematics, and mechanics

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Austin Mann:

Photographer extensively tests new iPhone cameras in Iceland, praises low light improvements — iPhone 6 Plus Camera Review: Iceland — v — This year I had the opportunity to be at Apple's Keynote where they announced the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and the Watch.

More: The Verge, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, BGR, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, Forbes and Gigaom. Tweets: @nchan

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Using The iPhone 6 And 6 Plus On A Real Disneyland Trip — Last week I decided to test the most secretive, hotly anticipated smartphones on earth in a place where there was no danger of them being recognized or damaged or both: Disneyland. — Both my wife and I are Disneyphiles of sorts, and visit a dozen times a year or more.

Tweets: @joannastern, @panzer, @chrispirillo, @drbarnard and @monkbent

New York Times:

Ex-employees: Home Depot slow to react to security concerns, despite warnings as early as 2008 — Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable — The risks were clear to computer experts inside Home Depot: The home improvement chain, they warned for years, might be easy prey for hackers.

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, Engadget and Electronista

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon has held a secret retreat for authors called “Campfire” for four years, but this weekend some Hachette supporters weren't invited — A Writerly Chill at Bezos' Fire — When Jeff Bezos tells writers to keep quiet, they obey. — Every fall, Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon …

More: GeekWire. Tweets: @jimaley, @neil_irwin and @amachinist. See also Mediagazer

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Legal challenges could threaten the business models of the on-demand startups relying on independent contractors — Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem? — An examination of tech's favorite labor model. — Shares … Earlier this year, I hired a house cleaner.

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Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Getty launches Stream, an iOS app targeted at consumers for browsing and sharing images — Getty Wants to Turn Free Photos Into Profit, and It Needs Your Help — The story of the photography business over the past 20 years has been marked by two shifts: The number of photographs …

More: Getty Images Press Room, The Next Web, Branding Magazine, The Verge, The Drum and GeekWire

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

How Betaworks revived Digg, growing it from 1.5M to 8M monthly visitors over the last 2 years — Inside the company that rebuilt Digg — Before there was Reddit, there was Digg. Digg used to be one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups. Founded in late 2004, it became a sensation …

More: TechPresident. See also Mediagazer

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Developer uses App Runtime for Chrome to run Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers — Hack runs Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers — The official Android Twitter app running on Mac OS. — If you remember, about a week ago, Google gave Chrome OS the ability …

More: Gigaom, HotHardware.com News, OMG!, Gigaom, SlashGear, Liliputing, AndroidHeadlines.com, Inquirer, The Mukt, Redmond Pie, Phandroid and Techie Buzz

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: Wall Street Journal, The Register, Tech Times, Polygon, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Engadget, SlashGear, hngn.com, Windows Phone Central, 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, Marketing Land, Electronista, PCMag Australia Feed, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, Gizmodo, Android Central and Canadian Reviewer. Tweets: @johnobeto

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Instapaper goes freemium, updates iOS app with single tap article saving and user profiles — Instapaper Goes Freemium With Big iOS Redesign — Instapaper, bringing bookmarks into the future, has just launched a big redesign of the iOS version of the app with loads of new features and a brand new business model.

More: Instapaper, Lifehacker, MacRumors, MacStories, Lifehacker, iMore, App Advice, iClarified and Good E-Reader

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