Apple Sold 31 Million iPhones in Q3 and Other News You Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesApple announced on Tuesday that it sold a record number of iPhones this quarter: 31.2 million handsets in the last three months. The NSA can collect, archive and search out the Internet and phone activities of millions of people, but according to a new report, the agency doesn’t have the technology to search its internal emails. And Cloud platform Akamai's latest reports indicate broadband speeds in the United States have climbed since this time last year.