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June 26, 2012, 11:50 AM

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John Markoff / New York Times:

In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inside Google's secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

More: Telegraph, Business Insider, Betabeat, Inquirer, The Verge, Wired, Engadget, WebProNews, CNET, AllThingsD, Pulse2 Technology …, Mashable!, Gizmodo and TechEye

David Carnoy / CNET:

Kindle Fire 2 may hit as soon as July — Last year, Amazon launched the Kindle Fire in September. The next-generation Kindles are expected to launch a little earlier this year. — (Credit: CNET) — What's next for Kindle hardware? — Well, a credible source has told CNET that Amazon …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Business Insider and The Tech Report

Ryan Tate / Wired:

And the Winner of the Next Social Networking Jackpot Is... Microsoft Monday said it would spend $1.2 billion cash in a much-anticipated acquisition of Yammer, a sort of Twitter for businesses. — The nearly 4-year-old startup is only the latest acquisition in a string of similar deals.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

The unedited Q&A: Apple retail employees respond to NYT's profile, share life from inside the Apple Store — Apple retail employees cheering ahead of third-generation iPad launch (SJMN) — Over the weekend, The New York Times profiled Apple's retail operations and controversially touched upon Apple's retail employees.

More: Forbes. Thanks:@zachorybenton

Horace Dediu / asymco:

The face and the brand — In the five years since …

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Scott Lowe / The Verge:

Dell introduces new XPS 14 and XPS 15 laptops — Naturally, with the added processing power and the inclusion of a disc drive, the XPS 15 gains a little heft over the XPS 14, carrying a thickness of 0.91-inches and a starting weight at 5.79 pounds. It also shaves three hours off …

More: Inquirer, PC World, Electronista, ZDNet, Direct2Dell, Liliputing, PC Magazine, Engadget, Engadget, VentureBeat and Gizmodo

Ben Rudolph / Windows Phone Blog:

VIDEO: Hands on with Windows Phone 7.8's amazing new Start Screen — Yesterday I snuck over to the engineering building and “borrowed” a Nokia Lumia 900 running a VERY early build of Windows Phone 7.8, so I could shoot a video of the amazing new Start Screen.

More: digitaltrends.com, Engadget, SymbianTweet, WMPoweruser, Global Nerdy, GadgeTell, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint and Pocketnow

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Vizio Announces The Co-Star, A $99 Google TV Box With OnLive Gaming Built In — Watch out, Sony, Vizio is chasing your tail. Just yesterday Sony revealed its latest Google TV hardware, a $199 remake of the company's first GTV products. And now today, Vizio took to the wires and announced …

More: digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, DailyTech, Liliputing, Ubergizmo, GadgeTell and PR Newswire

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys — Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys — Scientists penetrate hardened security devices in under 15 minutes. — RSA's SecurID 800 is one of at least five commercially available security devices susceptible …

More: Gizmodo, The H Security, Pulse2 Technology …, Geekosystem, Softpedia News and Bits

Glyn Moody / Techdirt:

EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament Next Week — The day before the EU's International Trade committee (INTA) recommended that the European Parliament should reject ACTA, the EU commissioner with responsibility for the treaty, Karel De Gucht …

More: WebProNews

Tom Warren / The Verge:

McAfee discovers $78 million worth of sophisticated cyber attacks against banking systems — Security firms McAfee and Guardian Analytics have published a joint fraud report, dubbed Operation High Roller, on new methods of siphoning money from banking systems.

More: CNET, McAfee Blog Central, Reuters and TechEye

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Jeff Huber Has The Hardest Job At Google — Let's return to the case of Jeff Huber, Google's senior vice president of Geo and Commerce. — Last week, we published a story headlined: “Depending On Whom You Ask, This Google Exec Is Either ‘Weak’ Or He Just Drew The Short Straw.”

More: Beyond Search

Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:

Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest Of The Three — While “Social-Mobile-Local” is certainly an overused buzz phrase, most of the attention has been placed on the “social” and “mobile” parts of the phrase. In social, the spectacular rise of Facebook and Twitter is clearly a disruptive and critical trend.

More: Screenwerk

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns — On Saturday we covered Boxopus, a new startup that allows people to download torrents directly to their dropbox folders. — The news was quickly picked up by many other technology sites and as a result the service's member count surged to more than 50,000.

More: Techdirt and ValueWalk

Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:

On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels — Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.'s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.

More: Digits, BBC, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Inquirer, Forbes, Reuters, Geekosystem, the Econsultancy blog, Macgasm, Forbes, USA Today, Mashable!, Pulse2 Technology …, ZDNet, blog.chron.com, bizjournals, SlashGear, TechEye and The Verge

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Miami Heat Owner Sues Blogger & Google Over ‘Unflattering’ Photo — What is it with super rich sports owners and SLAPP suits? Remember Redskins owner Dan Snyder? Well here's a situation that seems even more ridiculous. Ranaan Katz is a minority owner of the Miami Heat, who just won the NBA championship.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Pixiq, Boing Boing and paidContent

Nielsen Wire:

Top Five YouTube Partner Channels Drive Nearly 1.5 Billion Monthly Streams — May 2012 marks the first month that Nielsen is publicly reported streaming measurement on thousands of YouTube partners. The top five YouTube Partner channels, led by Vevo, Warner Music Group and Machinima, combined for nearly 1.5 billion total streams.

More: Pulse2 Technology … and Marketing Pilgrim

Ben Popper / The Verge:

As the battle for the living room heats up, Brightcove bets big on Apple TV — “The mythical Apple television set that everyone talks about is already here,” said Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove, sipping an iced cappuccino with The Verge on a particularly hot New York morning.

More: 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Beet.TV, Electricpig.co.uk, MacStories and iDownloadBlog.com

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Wi-Fi Alliance begins certifying Passpoint devices — The Wi-Fi Alliance has opened up its certification lab doors and is now inviting vendors to submit their handsets and access points for Hotspot 2.0 certification. If they pass muster, they will receive the Alliance's Passpoint stamp of approval …

More: Engadget, Computerworld, IntoMobile and The Verge

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia 808 PureView review — A CAMERA THAT CAN MAKE PHONE CALLS — OR SOMETHING MORE? — At Mobile World Congress this year, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cast a wary eye over the catalog of shiny new phones introduced by his competitors and posed the challenge, “which ones will you remember?”

More: Inquirer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

I/O Preview: Google Set This Week to Challenge Amazon, Sonos, Apple and ... Oh, Just Fill in the Blank Here — This week, some 5,500 developers will converge in San Francisco for Google I/O to listen to the search giant's latest and greatest plans for Android, Chrome and other products.

More: Gizmodo, Wired, The Official Google Blog, Macworld, ITworld.com, fiercecio.com, Fox News, ReadWriteWeb, AppleTell and ReadWriteWeb

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Hail A Fellow Human, Not A Taxi With “SideCar” - The New P2P Uber — You need a ride, someone else has a car and could use the cash, SideCar is the app that will bring you together. New instant peer-to-peer rideshare-finding app SideCar turns anyone into a taxi / Uber driver …

More: CNET, Bits, GigaOM, IntoMobile and AllThingsD. Thanks:@loyalelectron

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Apple suggests HTC dodged ITC injunction with ‘misstatements’ to US customs — Apple has suggested to the International Trade Commission that HTC made “misstatements” to U.S. Customs in order to dodge an injunction against its handsets. — In a letter to the ITC last week …

More: The Register

Facebook Newsroom:

Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors — Facebook announced today that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, has joined the company's board of directors. — Sandberg oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, marketing, business development …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, memeburn, Social Media, The Huffington Post, PC Magazine, Forbes, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Business Insider and GeekWire. Tweets: @pkedrosky

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Former Facebooker Scoops Up $1.4 Million for Freshplum, Sales Analytics for the Little Guy — Pricing physical goods can be relatively straightforward: Fixed costs like labor and materials are calculable, while watching competitors and market demand can aid you in finding a solid target price.

More: ZDNet, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Next-generation recommendation engine Nara launches, taking on $4m — Today Nara has launched itself into the market, in a bid to make the web more personal, by generating recommendations that individuals can use on a daily basis, at a much higher level of accuracy than was previously possible.

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BostInno, Xconomy and BostInno

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

With Half A Billion Video Recommendations Daily, Taboola Gets $10 Million From Marker — Over the last several years, Taboola has quietly emerged to offer video recommendations on a number of top publisher websites in the U.S. Now it's setting its sites on international growth and a whole set …

More: VatorNews, Beet.TV, AdExchanger.com, paidContent and PR Newswire

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard — Shelving Efforts to Sell Ads, Curtailing ‘Flip-able’ Content — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. — Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month …

More: Betabeat, AdExchanger.com, Guardian, Mashable!, GigaOM, The Verge, TeleRead, Inc.com and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Native Firefox Android browser adds speed, Flash, HTML5 and a fresh look (hands-on) — After a brief stretch in beta followed by some vague teasing, Firefox's native Android app is finally set to hit Google Play. While there are a raft of other bells and whistles — a new welcome page …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Mozilla Blog, CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, BGR, SlashGear and Mashable!

Sam Byford / The Verge:

UK ISPs will have to notify broadband users of piracy violations under draft Ofcom code — ISPs could be required to send warning letters to copyright infringers by early 2014, under a draft code published in its latest revision today by UK communications regulator Ofcom.

More: CNET, DSLreports, ZDNet, Guardian, TechEye, Softpedia News, The Register, Inquirer, Inquirer, TorrentFreak, Ofcom, GigaOM, bit-tech.net, TechCrunch and Telegraph

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