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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Apple to hold an event on September 9 to unveil new iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV  —  Apple's Fall iPhone Event To Be Held Sept. 9  —  Oh, one more thing: Apple TV.  —  BuzzFeed/ Warner Bros.  —  Apple hasn't yet officially announced its annual fall media event …
Bloomberg Business:
Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO  —  Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO  —  Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Verizon eliminates subsidized phones and contracts, offers 4 plans with 1-12GB of data for $30-80 per month and a $20 per month smartphone access fee  —  Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies  —  In a radical shift, the company will only offer new plans …
BBC:
Hackers may have accessed personal details of 2.4M Carphone Warehouse customers, along with 90K encrypted credit card records  —  Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach  —  Personal details of up to 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says.
Ellen Huet / Forbes:
Sidecar, trailing behind Uber and Lyft, becomes mainly a delivery service for other businesses  —  Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots To A Mostly-Deliveries Company  —  The U.S. ride-hailing market may have room for two players, but apparently not for three.
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Yahoo reclaims iconic San Francisco billboard  —  Yahoo has reclaimed something that had been lost for the past few years.  The company has installed a billboard along a stretch of Interstate 80 in San Francisco.  While that may not seem like news …
Lance Whitney / CNET:
Microsoft releases Translator, an app that translates typed or spoken words in 50 languages, for iOS, Android, Apple Watch and Android Wear  —  Microsoft challenges Google with its own translator app  —  The new app is covering all the bases, launching for iOS, Android and even the Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatches.
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo starts improving email search by indexing images and attachments, sorting results by relevance, more  —  Yahoo Tweaks Email to Make Search More Personal  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Searching email is generally an exercise in frustration.  —  You plunk in a few keywords that you think might …
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
LG joins Samsung and Google in committing to monthly security updates for its devices  —  Big Android Makers Will Now Push Monthly Security Updates  —  The Stagefright bug has quickly frightened cell phone manufacturers into action.  It's been just over a week since researchers alerted …
Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg Business:
NPD: Apple helped US watch sales fall 14% in June, the biggest drop in seven years  —  Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years  —  U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.'s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces.

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Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Marah Eakin / Current:
Fred Rogers Productions launches a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel, curating content based on monthly themes and focusing on reach over monetization

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Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Maps adds Night Mode to iOS, providing a darker color scheme for directions at night
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter hires developer of popular Android Twitter app Falcon, Joaquim Vergés

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Daniel Veditz / Mozilla Security Blog:
Firefox file-stealing exploit found in the wild, Mozilla issues security update patching the vulnerability
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