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November 10, 2014, 9:40 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.
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.comTweets: @reckless and @cironline
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.
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.
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 …
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 RegisterTweets: @andrewwrites
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

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