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September 23, 2015, 10:25 AM
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Michael Crider / Android Police:
Leaked Images Of The New Nexus Phone Retail Boxes Confirm ‘Nexus 5X’ And ‘Nexus 6P’ Model Names  —  It's a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
iPhone 6s breaks traditional tick-tock release cycle with 3 marquee features: innovative 3D Touch, impressive 4K video shooting and editing, and Live Photos
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
iPhone 6s Plus' snappier performance and camera improvements are nice, but 3D Touch makes it worth upgrading
Reuters:
Sources: Citrix looking to sell itself as a whole before embarking on asset sales, has reached out to Dell and others  —  Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources  —  Citrix Systems Inc (CTXS.O), the U.S. cloud computing company targeted by activist hedge fund Elliott Management …
Instagram Blog:
Instagram announces it has reached 400M monthly active users, doubling in size since March 2014, with more than 75 percent of users outside US  —  Celebrating a Community of 400 Million  —  We are thrilled to announce that the Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong.
Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying  —  Just how safe is Safe Harbour? (credit: Elizabeth du Toit)  —  The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws …
Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld:
Nvidia's desktop GTV 980 graphics cards coming to six gaming laptops, includes overclocking headroom and support for VR  —  Nvidia hits gaming milestone: True desktop performance in a laptop with GeForce GTX 980  —  Nvidia somehow managed to cram a desktop GPU into a laptop.  Read on to find out how.
David Yanofsky / Quartz:
Waze considers reducing suggestions for dangerous left-hand turns that save time  —  The “Waze left” may be coming to an end  —  The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line.
More: SlashGear.  Tweets: @debcha
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Uber Is Testing UberCommute, A New Carpooling Service, In China  —  Uber is testing a new kind of carpooling service after it announced UberCommute, a service that will be piloted first in China.  The news comes weeks after UberChina closed a $1.2 billion funding round.
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Smule sues two former employees, claims their new startup Shred Video used Smule IP  —  Startup sues former employees who launched similar company; CEO warns, 'If we're wrong, we'll win'  —  Smule, a maker of popular apps like Sing!  Karaoke, AutoRap, and I am T-Pain …
More: Y Combinator Posthaven.  Tweets: @paulg and @gralston.  Thanks:@mattrosoff

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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