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June 17, 2014, 1:35 AM

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New York Times:

Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy — When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products. — That philosophy continues to guide Apple, even under its new chief executive …

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Geoff Gasior / The Tech Report:

In SSD endurance test, no failures until 700TB of writes; Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, Kingston HyperX 3K go past 1PB — The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte — And then there were three — I feel for the subjects — of our SSD Endurance Experiment.

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @drpizza and @codinghorror

Wall Street Journal:

Nuance explores possible sale, met with Samsung and private-equity firms — Nuance Communications Explores Possible Sale — Speech-Recognition Software Maker's Customers Include Samsung, Apple — Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. has held discussions …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Parallels' new remote desktop apps let you control your PC like a phone — Remote desktop apps have an easier time working on tablets, where you have a lot of display area to work with, but they're frequently awkward on smartphones. Wouldn't it be nice if you could control a PC at home like it was just another phone app?

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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nest Brings Back The Protect At $99, But Waving Is Still Disabled — The Nest Protect is now available following its two-month hiatus after it was pulled for safety concerns. The smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector is now only $99, down from its $119 launch price.

More: Engadget, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, New York Times and Re/code

Steven Levy / Wired:

One year on, Loon balloon flight times increase 10X, download speeds reach 5-20 Mbps with LTE — Google's Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later — Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google's high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian state of Piauí.

More: Project Loon, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, DSLreports, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Re/code, GeekWire, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @hadip

The Unicode Blog:

Unicode version 7.0 released: 2,834 new characters including 250 emoji — Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 — Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Yahoo Tech, The Atlantic Online, NEWS.com.au, PC World, Droid Life, iMore, Washington Post, Phandroid, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Gawker, Boston Globe, Cambio, Gigaom, iPhone Hacks, Slate and MacStories. Tweets: @rsarver

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) reached a settlement with U.S. states and consumers seeking damages over the company's fixing of electronic book prices, avoiding a trial in which it faced as much as $840 million in claims.

More: The Verge, CNET, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Gigaom, VentureBeat, AppleInsider and App Advice

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Ahead Of Smartphone Launch, Amazon Announces Its Appstore Has Tripled Year-Over-Year To 240,000 Apps — Ahead of a press conference this week where Amazon is expected to introduce its first-ever Amazon smartphone, the company is making a point to call out how much its mobile app ecosystem has grown in recent months.

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers

More: Guardian, CNET, Salon, The Verge, Business Insider, The Technology Chronicles, The Next Web and Gigaom Research

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple considered buying Parse before building new CloudKit feature itself — In an extensive profile of Parse co-founder and Facebook executive Ilya Sukhar, The Information reveals that Apple considered purchasing the cloud services startup before Facebook:

More: The Information and iMore

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Chinese gov't reveals Microsoft's secret list of Android-killer patents — For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. “Licensing is the solution,” wrote the company's head IP honcho in 2011 …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, TechSpot, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, ITworld.com, Neowin, Digital Trends, Windows Phone Central and PhoneNews.com

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Making Violent Threats on Facebook Is Criminal — The Supreme Court announced plans to wade into the issue of whether you can go to jail for posting violent or threatening messages on social media sites — even when your intent to actually carry out those actions is unclear.

More: USA Today, VentureBeat, CNET, Mashable, Washington Post, Engadget, Fast Company, SlashGear, The Hill and Associated Press. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Box Acquires YC-Backed Streem — This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to stream files to their desktop environments. — Box declined to share terms of the agreement …

More: The Box Blog, eWeek, ITworld.com, InfoWorld, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Gigaom Research, CITEworld, The Next Web, Gigaom and Business Insider

GeekWire:

Seattle mayor reaches deal to legalize Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, without driver limits — It looks like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar are here to stay in Seattle. — After more than one year of City Council meetings, protests and debate, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray today announced an agreement between …

More: Seattle Times blogs and SlashGear. Tweets: @erikb, @alexavaughn and @knitpurl

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Cloud Platform Gets SSD Persistent Disks And HTTP Load Balancing — Google's I/O developer conference may just be a few days away, but that hasn't stopped the company from launching a couple of new features for its Cloud Platform ahead of the event. As Google announced today …

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, Gigaom, The Register, eWeek, VentureBeat and CrazyEngineers

BBC:

US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images — The Worldview-3 satellite is set to launch in August — Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted. — Companies had not been allowed …

More: Guardian, Inside Google, TechSpot, Nextgov, SiliconBeat, The Register and Gizmodo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth — Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among …

More: VentureBeat and Gigaom

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Google names first round of Glass at Work partners — Summary: Google chose broad mix of industry segments to develop enterprise applications for Glass, ranging from medical and media to sports and entertainment. — While Google Glass remains a subject of mockery in the consumer realm …

More: TechCrunch, Google Glass, Wearable World News, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Droid Life, The Verge, WebProNews and 9to5Google

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Paper's New Trending Section Makes It A Better Softcore News Reader — Facebook Paper is pretty, but sluggish when it comes to news. Its human-curated sections take a while to ingest the latest world events and gossip. But today's 1.2 update adds a “Trending” …

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