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November 2, 2014, 10:50 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Source: internal Apple message narrows Apple Watch launch date to “spring” 2015; customers will be able to try on different models in stores — Apple Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts: Apple Watch launching in “Spring” — The Apple Watch's launch is scheduled to occur in the “spring …

More: iMore, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBreak, App Advice and tech.co

Tweets: @llsethj and @markgurman

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy — What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? — The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback. — Shares — In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod …

More: AVC. Tweets: @pkedrosky, @davewiner, @npraudie, @stevesi, @geoffgolberg, @borthwick, @davidleeking and @jason. See also Mediagazer

Danny Crichton / TechCrunch:

As the biggest winners get bigger, VCs accelerate their valuations of companies like Slack — Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis — There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform …

More: Wall Street Journal and bizjournals. Tweets: @stewart, @joel_withrow and @mims

Micah Lee / The Intercept:

How Micah Lee securely connected Edward Snowden with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald — Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. — Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email.

Tweets: @lorenzofb, @maassp, @jilliancyork, @matthew_d_green and @a_greenberg. See also Mediagazer

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

How the NFL uses Zebra Technologies' RFID tags to track every player on the field — How the NFL tracks everything on the field but the ball — From Chinese women's soccer to the American big leagues, real-time motion tracking is coming to sports — Most people know radio-frequency identification …

Benedict Evans:

With Pay, Apple partners with and simultaneously destabilizes payment incumbents like Chase — Apple Pay, partnerships and software as disruption — With Apple Pay just launched and some sort of TV product floating on the horizon, it strikes me that there are three ways to think about how Apple changes industries.

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @startupljackson and @benbajarin

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Gmail 5.0 With Exchange Support And Material Design Has Landed — The day is finally upon us - the Gmail 5.0 APK has landed, and we have it for your (production-signed) downloading pleasure. — As we've expected since we first saw the app more than a week ago, the new Gmail is very... “material.”

More: BGR, PC World, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gigaom, Android and Me, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Android Central and 9to5Google

Matter:

A 17-year-old tells her father what might get more girls like her into learning to program — A Teenager Gets Grilled By Her Dad About Why She's Not That Into Coding — Sylvie Rosen, 17, is a high school senior in New York. Her father, Jay Rosen, 58, is a journalism professor at New York University.

Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu and @readmatter

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft stops selling consumer versions of Windows 7 to computer makers — Microsoft today stopped providing Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders.

More: Forbes, TechRadar.com, Deccan Chronicle, InformationWeek, Ars Technica, Windows Phone Central and TechnoBuffalo

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Windows 8 and 8.1 finally pass 15% market share, Windows XP drops below 20% mark

More: BetaNews, The Register, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, CNET and WinBeta. Thanks:@epro

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Google's Copresence Looks Like A Contactless, Cross-Platform Version Of Android Beam — Several months ago, we discussed something called Nearby, a project that - at the time - seemed to be Google's effort to let “people, places, and things” know when a user is, well, nearby.

More: TechCrunch, Electronista, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Techaeris, Digital Trends, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Mac, AndroidGuys and SlashGear

Wall Street Journal:

New EU Commissioner for Digital Economy is considering “Google-tax”, EU-wide data protection agency, was strong Google antitrust settlement opponent — New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations — Incoming European Commissioner for the Digital Economy …

More: Out-Law News and The IPKat. Tweets: @wagner_digital and @wsjd

The Intercept:

Manuals from government spyware vendor Hacking Team show how to use its software to infect devices — Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide — When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officials complained …

More: BetaNews, SC Magazine and Schneier on Security

Tweets: @apblake, @sambowne, @csoghoian, @coracurrier, @kansasalps, @astepanovich, @headhntr and @dangillmor

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Tinder is seeing users on average opening app 11x a day, quickly approaching 50M active users — Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth — As I sat in the lobby of a drab office building here, waiting to be led up to the penthouse loft of Tinder, the fast-growing dating app …

More: Tech Times, TIME, New York Magazine, Boing Boing, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, Tech Times, Engadget, PC Magazine and Engadget

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @nickbilton and @selenalarson

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