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October 4, 2015, 3:05 PM

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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:

Behind Evernote's decline: lack of focus hampered growth, products failed to convert free users — The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble — In 2012, the note-taking app Evernote became one of the first “Unicorn” startups …

Tweets: @jasonlk and @peter_tl. Thanks:@scranecolt

John Markoff / New York Times:

IBM scientists create tiny carbon nanotube transistors that could potentially replace silicon transistors in future computer processors — IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors — In the semiconductor business, it is called the “red brick wall” — the limit of the industry's ability …

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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:

Autonomous vehicles are safer, more efficient, utterly inevitable, and truly transformative — Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving — The main thing you should know about autonomous vehicles is that they are utterly inevitable. — BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief

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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

The FAA Has Missed Its Congressionally Mandated Deadline to Regulate Drones — The Federal Aviation Administration has officially missed its Congressionally mandated deadline to figure out how to fully integrate drones into the national airspace. — When Congress passed the FAA Modernization Act …

More: NBC News, Manufacturing . net, The Verge, The Hill and Techdirt. Thanks:@jason_koebler

Jeff / iFixit:

New gaskets and seals make iPhone 6s and 6s Plus less prone to liquid damage than predecessors — Is the New iPhone Waterproof? We Opened It Up (Again) to Find Out — On Friday, we tore down Apple's two newest iPhones and found something new lurking (quite literally) just below the surface.

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys — Today at its first user conference, GitHub Universe, GitHub announced that it's launching support for FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security keys from companies like Yubico and others. These physical USB keys automatically generate …

More: Wired, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Fortune, Yubico and eWeek

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

A look at multiple motivations behind Amazon's move to stop selling Apple TV, Nexus Player, and Chromecast devices — What's behind Amazon's baffling decision to ban Apple TV and Chromecast? — Amazon's decision to ban sales of Apple TV and Google's Chromecast and Nexus Player from its retail store …

More: eWeek, Fortune, Variety, Fortune and Slate. See also Mediagazer

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ reviewed: best Android phablets on the market with incredible displays, fast and efficient SoC, significantly improved TouchWiz — The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Review — The Galaxy Note line has long been one of Samsung's greatest assets in the mobile market.

James Crabtree / Financial Times:

Didi Kuaidi buys stake in Indian ride-hailing group Ola — Chinese ride-hailing group Didi Kuaidi has invested an undisclosed amount in Ola, India's largest taxi-hailing app by market share, in a further sign of a growing global alliance among rivals to US-based Uber.

More: Quartz, CNBC, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Fortune

Tom Warren / The Verge:

What to expect from Microsoft's October 6 Press event: Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, Surface Pro 4, Microsoft Band 2, Windows 10 and Xbox news — Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 and Lumia event: what to expect — Microsoft is kicking its holiday season off with a press event in New York City next week.

More: Tech Times, BetaNews, International Business Times, Pocket-lint and PhoneArena

Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:

Published academic research shows Google's robotics group is making strides; source says group will become a separate division under Alphabet — A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot — The company's secretive robotics group is making strides, according to interviews and academic research.

Tweets: @sub8u

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Becomes Alphabet's ‘Do the Right Thing’ — “Don't be evil” is so 2004. — Alphabet Inc. posted a new code of conduct for its employees Friday, after Google completed its transformation into a holding company. There were few substantive changes in more than 20 documents filed …

More: TIME, BGR, Google, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, 9to5Google, Fone Arena, Thurrott.com, Tech Times, Engadget, Business Insider and Re/code

Tweets: @paultoo, @carnage4life, @dannysullivan, @jamesjoaquin and @mhbergen

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