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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 …
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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 …
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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 …

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Letter: Tennessee Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter urged David Ellison to move Paramount's corporate headquarters from California to Tennessee

Reuters:
Sources: Lionsgate has attracted takeover interest from France's Bolloré Group, owner of Canal+, and Banijay, which just completed an $8B merger with All3Media

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit

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Japan officials and Robot Taxi say a pilot program for unmanned taxi service will launch with a small group of riders in 2016

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft acquires game-technology vendor Havok, known for its physics engine, from Intel for an undisclosed sum
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Retail brokerage firm Scottrade says breach from late 2013 to early 2014 compromised up to 4.6M customers' contact information, including SSNs
Jai Vijayan / darkREADING:
Researchers find curious Linux.WiFatch malware on tens of thousands of routers and IoT devices that appears to be securing infected systems
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