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October 11, 2014, 10:10 PM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Walgreens Planning for October 18 Apple Pay Launch — An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple's new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18. — A Saturday launch is unusual …

More: AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, TUAW, Redmond Pie, The Daily Dot, Mashable and O'Grady's PowerPage

Jane Wakefield / BBC:

Comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with facial recognition to charge per laugh — Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition — A comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with charging users per laugh, using facial-recognition technology to track how much they enjoyed the show.

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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras' documentary about Snowden, confirms a second leaker — Citizenfour review - Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated — Laura Poitras' documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow — Edward Snowden in Moscow.

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Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 — Sprint (NYSE:S) confirmed it will shut off service on its mobile WIMAX network on or around Nov. 6, 2015, giving further clarity on its network evolution. — Sprint spokeswoman Adrienne Norton confirmed the date to FierceWireless.

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Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

New Images of iPad Air 2 Parts Show Touch ID Home Button Cable, Logic Board With A8X Chip, and More — Apple.club.tw (Google Translate) has shared new images that appear to show a variety of components from the iPad Air 2, which include pictures of the logic board, home button flex cable, front panel, and volume control flex cable.

More: Gizmodo, App Advice, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Motley Fool, TIME, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and 9to5Mac

Peter Rubin / Wired:

Carl Zeiss's $99 VR One virtual reality headset works with any 4.7"-5.2" iOS or Android phone — This $99 Headset Could Get All of Us Hooked on VR — While the world awaits a true consumer version of a virtual-reality headset like the Oculus Rift or Sony's Project Morpheus …

More: Wearables Arena, Gizbot.com, Engadget, VR Focus, KitGuru, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo

Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:

Kmart says hackers have obtained credit and debit card numbers of “potentially” all customers since September — Kmart Says Credit Card System Breached In Malware Attack — The attack began in September and involved the use of malware. A separate hack reportedly targeted Dairy Queen.

More: Kmart, Krebs on Security, The Daily Dot, SlashGear, Mashable, Electronista, CSO Online, Consumerist, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, CBS Philly and Bloomberg

HD Guru:

Netflix quietly raises its 4K Ultra HD subscription rate to $11.99 from $7.99 — Netflix Quietly Raises its 4K Ultra High Definition Subscription Rates — Netflix, the leader in 4K Ultra High Definition streaming services, has raised their rates, while continuing to add more 4K content …

More: Variety, BestTechie, PCMag Australia Feed, /Film, Digital Trends, SlashGear and Engadget

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

SoundCloud Posted A $29M Loss In 2013 On Revenues Of $14M — SoundCloud, the popular online music and audio sharing platform, is now exceeding 175 million listeners each month and is on track to reach 200 million. But its rapid growth has seen the company's costs run away from its revenues.

More: RAIN News. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

The Atlantic Online:

How social media firms struggle to balance free speech and safety as women face threats and harassment online — The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women — In December 2012, an Icelandic woman named Thorlaug Agustsdottir discovered a Facebook group called “Men are better than women.”

Tweets: @schemaly, @ma_franks, @half, @cindygallop, @mattbish, @harvard_press, @codinghorror, @cindygallop, @adriarichards, @jessicagolds and @harper

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road—On a Technicality — Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI's investigation.

More: Reuters, Bloomberg and Naked Security. Tweets: @rogerkver

Doug Cameron / Wall Street Journal:

iRobot introduces new operating system enabling more autonomous robots for military use — IRobot Introduces System to Help Machines Think for Themselves — Technology Dovetails With Pentagon Push for Robots to Steer Themselves in Tricky Environments — IRobot Corp. , best known …

More: Mashable, Wired, ZDNet, CIO Today, bizjournals, The Boston Globe and Bidness Etc

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