10 things in tech you need to know today

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Jack Dorsey has been acting as Twitter's interim CEO for months.

1. Apple is reportedly planning to release its long-rumoured super-sized iPad on September 9. The iPad Pro, along with a new iPad Mini, are expected to hit shelves in November.

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2.Twitter has talked to Cisco's Padmasree Warrior and CBS Interative boss Jim Lanzone about being its next CEO. According to the same Bloomberg report, Twitter's board will meet on Thursday to discuss the status of the CEO search.

3. The tablet market isn't happy about the release of Intel's new sixth generation Core processor. Intel's new chips are codenamed Skylike, the company's "best processors ever," and could allow the PC to look as sleek as some tablets without sacrificing computing power.

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4. Socialbakers CEO Jan Rezab will give up the CEO position at the company he founded to become executive chairman. Robert Lang will become CEO in his place.

5. Avid Life Media, the company that owns Ashley Madison, also owned an escort service.An internal memo lists a shell company called Pernimus Limited as one of Avid Life Media's assets, which leased an escort website called Escorts.ca in 2013, and the site was active until Tuesday evening.

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6.Google will reportedly unveil its new Nexus phones at an event on Sept. 29.The phones will be made by LG and Huawei.

7. One Apple analyst believes there is only a 50-60% chance that Apple will make a car. Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster also believes that one wouldn't appear for close to ten years.

8. Hundreds of British businesses have had their Wikipedia pages pulled. They had been targeted by scammers that offered to publish and protect a page on the company, but then came after the firm for a fee.

9. One study claims Apple has sold over 1.07 million Apple Watches in China.;Apple still isn't sharing its own numbers.

10. WHSmith has apologised for a "bug" in its magazine subscription process that accidentally emailing customer contact details to other customers on Wednesday morning. Here's Wednesday's report on the leak.

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