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October 16, 2014, 10:05 AM

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Facebook:

Facebook announces Safety Check, a tool that lets you announce you're safe during natural disasters — Introducing Safety Check — In times of disaster or crisis, people turn to Facebook to check on loved ones and get updates. It is in these moments that communication is most critical …

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV channel for today's iPad and iMac event live stream is now available — Apple previously announced that it would be live streaming Thursday's iPad and Mac event, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the company is pushing out an Apple TV channel to stream the video.

More: ZDNet, MacRumors, Fortune, The Verge, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Computerworld, Quartz, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice

Sammy the Walrus IV / AAPL Orchard:

Apple should stop selling the iPad Mini, introduce an iPad Pro to revive a product that is getting squeezed between larger phones and lighter laptops — Thoughts on iPad — The iPad is at a crossroads. Introduced by Steve Jobs four years ago, the iPad has gone on to become a phenomenal success …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

'iPad Air 2′ and 'iPad mini 3′ with Touch ID & Burst Mode confirmed, show up early in iTunes — Apple's iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple's upcoming iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3.

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, The Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App — If you're even kind of active on reddit, you probably know of Alien Blue. As far as perusing reddit on iOS goes, it's pretty much the undisputed champ. — It seems reddit would agree.

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

will.i.am introduces Puls cuff with voice control, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, more — Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch — When you think wearables you don't usually think international superstar or Salesforce. Push aside that old way of thinking aside …

More: The Register, PC World, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Inquirer, MacDailyNews, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Wearables Arena, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, San Francisco Chronicle, Connectedly, CNET, App Advice, Business Insider, KRON4 and VentureBeat

Tweets: @reckless, @claire0h, @caseynewton and @iamwill

Jordan Kushins / Gizmodo:

Interview with will.i.am on the Puls and “fashionology”

More: The Huffington Post, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable and Wearable Tech Insider. Tweets: @dewitt

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

Puls partners with AT&T in the US and O2 in the UK

More: TechSpot

Justin Kroll / Variety:

Christian Bale in talks to play Steve Jobs in Sony's new movie “Jobs” — Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Movie — Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs. — Sources confirm the actor …

More: Computerworld, Gizmodo, App Advice, The Register, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacNN, iMore, Business Insider and TUAW

Tweets: @markgurman, @billb, @stevecheney and @lessien

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Nexus 9: 8.9" display, first 64-bit CPU in a Nexus, 9 hour battery life, preorders start Oct. 17, from $399, keyboard case sold separately — Google announces HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet, coming November 3rd — Google has just announced the Nexus 9, an Android 5.0 tablet that the company designed in collaboration with HTC.

More: BGR, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Greenbot, Android Police, dailywireless.org, Phones Review, Electronista, BetaNews, Engadget and Marketing Land

Kellex / Droid Life:

Nexus 6 Coming to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular in November

More: Geeky Gadgets, Laughing Squid, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, Android Central, Business Insider and TmoNews

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus Player: first Android TV device, on sale Nov. 3 for $99, gaming controller for $39

More: Tubefilter, Android Police, DailyTech, Gigaom, SlashGear and Phandroid. See also Mediagazer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus 6: 6" Quad HD display, Snapdragon 805 CPU, 13 megapixel rear camera, 15-min turbo charging, preorders start Oct. 29, from $649

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Android 5.0 Lollipop available on new Nexus 6, 9 and Player devices; for Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10, Google Play Edition devices in coming weeks

More: Re/code, The Official Motorola Blog, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal, Android Police and PhoneArena

Emily Steel / New York Times:

CBS to offer standalone web subscription service CBS All Access at $5.99/month in 14 cities — CBS to Offer Stand-Alone Web Subscription Service — CBS unveiled a new subscription Internet streaming service on Thursday that lets people watch its live television programming and thousands …

More: Re/code and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Nadella says differences in base pay among genders and races at Microsoft within 0.5%, announces plan to recruit and train for diversity — Internal Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sets new diversity plan after ‘humbling’ experience — A week after his controversial comments about women and pay raises …

More: Business Insider and Windows Phone Central. Tweets: @caseynewton. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

HBO's taking on Netflix like never before. But now they'll share the same headaches, too. — HBO is finally caving to consumer pressure and will be offering its streaming service, HBO Go, as a standalone subscription next year. This is a huge deal for cord-cutters, people …

More: The Verge, Quartz, Mercury News, Geek News Central and Businessweek. See also Mediagazer

Owen Bowcott / Guardian:

Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims — Actions of intelligence agencies are ‘corrosive of online privacy’, Ben Emmerson says in response to Edward Snowden leaks — Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is “corrosive of online privacy” …

More: VPN Creative and PandoDaily. Tweets: @kenroth and @glynmoody

Alex Wagner / PhoneDog:

HP: webOS cloud services, App Catalog to shut down on January 15 — Earlier this month, we learned that LG may be working on a new webOS SmartWatch, which would be the first new mobile webOS product in quite some time. Unfortunately, now we have a bit of bad webOS news to balance out the good.

More: Liliputing, SlashGear, pivotCE and VentureBeat

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Nearly 75% of all Airbnb rentals in New York illegal, says NY Attorney General Schneiderman — Airbnb Listings Mostly Illegal, State Contends — Airbnb, the pioneering home rental service, presents itself as useful and virtuous, but the reality is far less benign, according to a report …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Q3 earnings: profit of $59.3M on revenue of $1.41B; shares fall over 25% on lower-than-projected subscriber numbers — Netflix Blames Missed Sub-Growth Targets on Price Increase, as Stock Gets Hammered — Netflix added 3.02 million overall streaming customers for the third quarter of 2014 …

More: Re/code, Agence France-Presse, Forbes, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, Deadline, Engadget and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

In Q3 Netflix added two international subscribers for every new U.S. member, but price hike slowed growth

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, CNET, internetretailer.com, Tech Times and WebProNews

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