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July 6, 2015, 11:30 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
All Apple Stores to reduce third-party accessories selection to items sold in packaging co-designed by Apple, starting next week  —  All Apple Stores revamping third-party accessory selection with Apple designed boxes  —  Apple-designed packaging for the Mophie Juice Pack and Logitech iPad Keyboard
Ellen Pao / Reddit:
Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools  —  We apologize  —  We screwed up.  Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years.  We haven't communicated well …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Instagram is uploading images at 1080x1080 resolution instead of 640x640 and confirms it's rolling out displaying at that resolution on iOS and Android devices  —  Instagram photos are now bigger — if you know where to look  —  Just over a week ago, I wrote plaintively …
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Sheryl Sandberg Joins SurveyMonkey's Board  —  Sheryl Sandberg is taking a seat on the board of SurveyMonkey, her late husband's online survey and polling company.  —  Ms. Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the book “Lean In,” unexpectedly lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, while on vacation in May.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Eddy Cue: Apple ‘working’ to bring back music Home Sharing with iOS 9  —  Last week, we noted that Apple's latest iOS 8.4 release with Apple Music removes support for the long-existing Music Home Sharing feature.  This function allows an iOS device user to stream music from a computer running iTunes on their own WiFi network.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft will finalize Windows 10 RTM build this week to send to OEMs ahead of July 29 launch  —  Microsoft to finalize Windows 10 this week  —  Microsoft is planning to finalize Windows 10 this week, ahead of its official launch later this month.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Debuts Dedicated Mobile Apps For Its Dropbox Competitor, Cloud Drive  —  Amazon has quietly expanded its Cloud Drive service - a competitor to Dropbox, Google Drive and other online file hosting services - to mobile platforms, with the release of dedicated apps on iTunes, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.
Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Waze to test carpooling service in Israel; drivers limited to 2 rides a day, can charge for gas, car wear and tear, but not generate profit  —  Google Tests Carpooling Service for Commuters in Israel  —  Google has thrown its hat into the hotly contested ride-sharing ring …
Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:
Sony Xperia Z4 tablet review: incredibly thin and light, and near-flawless performance, but useless keyboard dock makes it too expensive  —  Sony Xperia Z4 tablet review: a great device saddled with a terrible dock  —  Sony's tablets have quietly been getting better over the years.
Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google:
Google releases Material Design Lite, a web framework for making Material Design-style websites  —  Google Developers, the team at Google which creates tools and learning materials for developers to take advantage of, has released a front-end web framework for building sites to the Material Design specification.
Steve Ragan / CSO Online:
As more details about Hacking Team's deals with repressive regimes like Sudan emerge from breach, company responds with vague denials and threats on Twitter  —  Hacking Team responds to data breach, issues public threats and denials  —  On Sunday evening, someone hijacked the Hacking Team account …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Amazon must face trademark lawsuit by high-end watchmaker Multi Time Machine, which claims search results were misleading users  —  Amazon must face trademark lawsuit over search results  —  Amazon.com Inc must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker which says the online retailer's search results …

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