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Apple Stops Selling Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand in Stores — Making Way for the Apple Watch  —  Apple has removed competing fitness bands from its retail stores as the company prepares to ship its own wearable, the Apple Watch.  —  Checks of major stores in San Francisco, Palo Alto …
Kevin Rose / TechCrunch:
Apple Watch Edition won't appeal to the technologist, the collector, or the gold lover, only the douchebag  —  The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags  —  Editor's Note: Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, a technology investor, and CEO of North Technologies, creator of the watch news aggregator, Watchville.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro teardown gives first look inside new Force Touch trackpad  —  Following dismantling the latest refreshed MacBook Air models yesterday, today iFixit dives inside the new MacBook Pro model that arrived this week with upgraded internals and more.
Mat Smith / Engadget:
After its sale from Sony, Vaio launches first mid-range nondescript Android phone in Japan  —  Here is VAIO's first smartphone  —  No longer a part of Sony, VAIO likes the look of that smartphone market, and has decided to go up against its former parent company's Xperia series with its own creation …
Jane Wakefield / BBC:
BBC to give 1M mini-computers to 11-year-olds across UK as part of Make it Digital initiative  —  BBC in school computer giveaway  —  The hardware is a nod to an earlier scheme to put BBC Micros in schools during the 1980s  —  The BBC will be giving away mini-computers to 11-year-olds across …
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
FCC releases full net neutrality rules confirming it will treat Internet as telecommunications and decide what is acceptable on a case-by-case basis  —  F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules  —  WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Docker's latest acquisition, KiteMatic, built a Mac app that runs Docker containers  —  Docker, a startup whose open-source container technology is becoming a popular component in software development, is announcing today that it's acquired KiteMatic, a three-man startup that built a Mac app …
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Google is done selling the Nexus 5  —  Google has stopped selling the Nexus 5, the company's 2014 flagship Android smartphone.  A Google spokesperson told The Verge today that “while some inventory of Nexus 5 still exists (with our retail and carrier partners), our focus is on the Nexus 6 at this time.”
Ben Popper / The Verge:
DJI set to double sales to $1B in 2015, the first consumer drone company to do so, amid VC funding talks  —  DJI is about to become the first billion dollar consumer drone company  —  The company did around $500 million in sales during 2014 and is on pace to double that this year
Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority:
Cyanogen OS 12 will ship with Boxer as default email app  —  Boxer will be the default email app for Cyanogen OS devices, starting with the Lollipop-based release 12, due in the following months.  —  Through its boisterous CEO, Kirt McMaster, Cyanogen has made no secret of its plans to “take away Android from Google.”
Kevin Bocek / Venafi Blog:
Clinton email server not encrypted or authenticated by a digital certificate for first three months of her term at State Department  —  Digital Certificate Forensics: What Venafi TrustNet Tells Us about the Clinton Email Server  —  3-month gap before encryption enabled for browsers, smartphones, and tablets starting in 2009
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Apple Pay enables hackers to use credit cards stolen online in retail stores, which were previously only useful for online fraud  —  Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud  —  Lost amid the media firestorm these past few weeks about fraudsters turning to Apple Pay is this stark …
More: ZDNet
Wall Street Journal:
India's cab-hailing firm Ola to raise $400M from DST Global and others at a valuation close to $3B  —  India's Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Close to Raising $400 Million  —  Startup Could be Valued at About $3 Billion
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
One of Google's Project Loon balloons can cover an area the size of Rhode Island with LTE service; remote locations still primary target for commercial service  —  Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state  —  A single Project Loon balloon can cover an area the size of Rhode Island.
More: Ubergizmo
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Facebook to face U.S. class action over children's online purchases  —  (Reuters) - A federal judge said Facebook Inc must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking to force the social media company to provide refunds when children spend their parents' money on its website without permission.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Lyft Has Raised $530 Million In Series E Funding Led By Rakuten, Is Now Valued At $2.5 Billion  —  Ride-hailing startup Lyft has closed $530 million in new funding led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, TechCrunch has learned.  The new financing, which is slated to be announced tomorrow …

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
A look at Human Generative Workflows, a framework developed by a group led by Kathleen Kennedy, in which AI use in Hollywood stays under human creative control

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