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October 12, 2014, 12:05 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 …

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Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

A woman game developer critical of #GamerGate flees home after death threats — Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats — Game developer Brianna Wu fled her home last night, following what is becoming a distressingly frequent case of women in the gaming scene expressing fears …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, we hunted the mammoth, destructoid, The Verge, Re/code, Boing Boing, Gamasutra, Polygon, The Huffington Post, Gameranx and Gawker

Tweets: @spacekatgal, @spacekatgal and @femfreq

The Atlantic Online:

How social media firms struggle to balance free speech and safety as women face threats and harassment online

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

Eric Enge / Stone Temple Consulting:

Google Now comes way ahead of Siri and Cortana in a 3K+ voice knowledge-query test — The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana — Google's Knowledge Graph has been the center of much attention lately. We have been hearing a lot about another concept called the Knowledge Vault as well.

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google trial lets you chat with doctors when you search for symptoms — Searching the web for symptoms of illness can be dangerous — you could identify a real condition, but you also risk scaring yourself for no reason through a misdiagnosis. Google might have a solution that puts your mind at ease, though.

More: Gizmodo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Phandroid, SlashGear and Digital Trends

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.

More: PCMag Australia Feed, CNET, Geek.com, Slate, Entrepreneur, The Verge, Laughing Squid, Inquirer and The Next Web

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.

What's the Fare:

Even with dynamic pricing, a ride-sharing app will usually beat taxis on price in SF, LA, NYC — It Pays to Compare — A few weeks ago we built What's The Fare as a personal side project because it was frustrating to switch between multiple apps to check current pricing and to estimate fares.

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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.

More: Wireless Week, PC Magazine, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Gigaom, Electronista, Tech Times, DSLreports, Pocketables, The Verge, Android Central and dailywireless.org

Paul Ford / Medium:

Meet Tilde.Club, a community of web page creators invoking the early web on a single Unix host — I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds — The story of Tilde.Club — This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds of people all sort of working towards a common goal …

Tweets: @jennydeluxe, @ostephens, @leebryant, @craigmod, @tjl, @waxpancake and @anildash

Peter Rubin / Wired:

Carl Zeiss announces $99 VR One virtual reality headset that works with any 4.7"-5.2" iOS or Android smartphone — 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, Engadget, VR Focus, Gizbot.com, KitGuru, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo

BBC:

Europol's Cybercrime Centre chief: only “around 100” kingpins behind global cybercrime — Only 100 cybercrime brains worldwide says Europol boss — There are only “around 100” cybercriminal kingpins behind global cybercrime, according to the head of Europol's Cybercrime Centre.

Tweets: @stilkov, @fborgesius and @grady_booch. Thanks:@srikardr

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's Android Wear keyboard lets you draw letters on your smartwatch — Microsoft was quick to back Android Wear last month with the release of a new OneNote app, and the company is continuing to support Google's smartwatches today with a new keyboard.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Microsoft Research, Android Police, Wearables Arena, AndroidHeadlines.com and Liliputing

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