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October 13, 2014, 7:15 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Pay setup detailed & retailers begin training as service launches at Apple HQ — The launch of Apple Pay, Apple's NFC and Touch ID-based mobile payment solution, is upon us. Apple has begun preparing for the launch by kicking off Apple Pay training programs for its own group …

More: Telegraph, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iMore and Gotta Be Mobile

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Walgreens Planning for October 18 Apple Pay Launch

More: TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Fortune, iMore, SlashGear, Business Insider, Apple, VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, App Advice, Mashable, TUAW and Gizmodo

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, Digital Trends, Mashable, ITProPortal, SlashGear, memeburn, Ubergizmo, PCMag Australia Feed, Neowin, The Verge, Re/code, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Android Central, AndroidHeadlines.com, Phandroid, SlashGear and Digital Trends

Tor Ekeland / Wired:

US should follow UK and Ireland in meting out punishment to hackers that is proportional to the harm they cause — America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers — “How did you get caught?” I ask Darren Martyn, aka Pwnsauce, the former member of LulzSec. — “Bad Opsec. Really, really bad Opsec,” he says.

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.

More: The Verge, Seeking Alpha, iPhone Hacks, The Huffington Post, Trusted Reviews, The Inquisitr News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Watch, BGR, PC Magazine, Business Insider, 9to5Google and Upstart Business Journal. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Jason Hahn / Digital Trends:

Samsung announces 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi technology that increases max transmission speeds from 866 Mbps to 4.6 Gbps, expects first products in 2015 — Samsung has found a way to boost Wi-Fi speeds fivefold — When it comes to Wi-Fi technology, it's a tale of two speeds: the theoretical and the actual.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, Gizmodo, SlashGear, bit-tech.net, Gearburn, Bloomberg, SamMobile and The Register

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:

A profile of Product Hunt founder and tech tastemaker Ryan Hoover — The 27-Year-Old Who Tells Investors and Reporters What's New in Tech — Ryan Hoover was dancing with some friends at DNA Lounge in San Francisco last month when a stranger suddenly turned to him and asked, “Are you Ryan from Product Hunt?”

Tweets: @cbm and @rrhoover

Reuters:

French bank BPCE teams with Twitter to offer person-to-person money transfer via tweets — French bank, Twitter team up for money transfers via tweets — (Reuters) - One of France's largest banks is teaming up with social network Twitter Inc. (TWTR.N) this week to allow its customers to transfer money via tweets.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Gizmodo and memeburn

Tweets: @whatthebit and @jtemple

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Intex Cloud FX Firefox OS phone review: only $35, but hardware is underpowered for software — Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone—how bad could it be? — Hey! You there! You've got it pretty good, you know that? While you're sitting there using your Internet-enabled device to read …

More: TechSpot. Tweets: @arstechnica and @drpizza

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Patent trolling pays: Since 2010, trolls have made 3 times as much money in court as real companies — Two charts show how, even though patent trolls have lost recent battles, they are still winning the war. — Who deserves more money from a jury: a company that uses its patents to sue a competitor using its technology?

More: Goodwin Procter LLP

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Salesforce Hopes To Ride Analytics Wave With New Business Intelligence Service — Salesforce.com will unveil a new analytics service tomorrow morning they have dubbed Wave. The product will be introduced by CEO Marc Benioff at the company's Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, Bloomberg and New York Times. Tweets: @qhardy

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

3.8M Raspberry Pis sold to date — Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Still Selling Like Hot Cakes — The UK designed Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which has triggered all sorts of creative single board computing projects — most recently being repurposed as the heart of a DIY computer designed …

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

USPTO “business method” patent rejections increase to 78% in July, up from 24% in January, after Alice v. CLS Bank SCOTUS June decision — The patent office is rejecting a lot more software patents — A June Supreme Court decision on the legality of software patents has been sending shockwaves through the legal system.

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