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November 10, 2014, 8:55 AM

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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Apple releases web tool to deregister phone numbers from iMessage — Apple has quietly released a new tool to make switching between iOS and other smartphones a bit easier. The new web tool lets you instantly deregister your phone number from Apple's iMessage system.

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

Meet the network of parody Twitter account operators who earn thousands from paid ads — Meet The Network Of Guys Making Thousands Of Dollars Tweeting As “Common White Girls” — The Twitter illuminati that made “Alex From Target” an overnight sensation can drive millions of clicks with a simple retweet.

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed

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Avi Asher-Shapiro / The Verge:

Uber is recruiting 50,000 veterans as drivers — But are these vets getting taken for a ride? — Shortly after his 17th birthday, Ali Malik asked his mother for permission to join the U.S. military. A New York City high school student, Malik had watched the twin towers implode …

More: CNBC and 2Paragraphs.com. Tweets: @reckless and @cironline

Euan Rocha / Reuters:

BlackBerry CEO sees fewer new devices, focus on profitability — (Reuters) - BlackBerry, which has completed the first phase of its two-year turnaround plan, is now focused on profitability and will not spread itself thin by attempting to launch too many new devices, its chief executive said.

More: The Register, Bloomberg, Financial Times, I4U News, Seeking Alpha and CrackBerry.com

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Evernote Raises $20M From Japanese Media Giant Nikkei, Forms Content Partnership For Evernote Context — Evernote announced today that it has raised $20 million in new capital from Nikkei, the Japanese media conglomerate that publishes the influential financial newspaper Nikkei, as well English-language Nikkei Asian Review.

More: Evernote, Tech in Asia, Gigaom, VentureBeat and I4U News

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Banner ads hampered the usability of the web and are now in decline amid shift to mobile apps — Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the Web — Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed …

More: Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Tweets: @agolis, @wajahatali, @ravisomaiya and @efeng

Chris Welch / The Verge:

HTC Desire Eye review: mediocre cameras, but otherwise a great, waterproof mid-range handset — HTC's Desire Eye is a killer mid-range smartphone — But don't expect much from those cameras — HTC's marketing its new phone all wrong. The newly launched Desire Eye …

More: Inquirer, Digital Spy, PC Advisor, CNET and Forbes

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Mac Mini 2014 review: still a good “gateway Mac”, but less versatile than previous models — Not the upgrade we were hoping for: The 2014 Mac Mini reviewed — The 2014 Mac Mini looks the same on the outside, but on the inside it regresses in some unfortunate ways.

More: The Register. Tweets: @andrewwrites

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Good startup ideas are not counterintuitive, but in fact obvious, if you talk to users and develop a better model of the world — The Counterintuitive Thing About Counterintuitive Things — There is a great (as in large) memes swirling around the startup world these days which posits …

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Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

LG G3 may be the first to get Android 5.0 Lollipop update, even before Google's Nexus 5; rollout starts in Poland, this week — LG G3 Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update starts this week (OFFICIAL) … LG has just announced that they've claimed title of first manufacturer to deliver Android 5.0 Lollipop to the masses.

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Qualcomm quietly dominates mobile: every major smartphone in the US contains its hardware — This is Qualcomm's world and we're all just living in it — Guess who puts the turbo in the Droid Turbo's name — Qualcomm is the mobile industry's equivalent of a god: omnipotent and omnipresent, yet invisible to the naked eye.

Tweets: @howardlindzon

Leo Mirani / Quartz:

How tech firms use language, typography, color to make the web usable for non-English speakers — Why you probably won't understand the web of the future — This item has been corrected. — The giants of the connected world are finally waking up to one of the biggest obstacles …

More: The Loop. Tweets: @benrito and @danielpink

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