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Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July — Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014 — This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet — With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …
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| James Temple / Re/code: |
Bill Maris, the Man Behind Google Ventures, Wants to Redefine Silicon Valley Economics — Bill Maris is unimpressed with the mechanics of Silicon Valley venture capital. — He sees a lot of short bets on incremental advances and copycat apps. He thinks partners get paid for putting money to work — not for making ambitious bets.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Uber blocking secondary stock sales, has recently offered early shareholders buybacks at a price pegged to sub-$4B valuation — Uber plays hardball with early shareholders — Uber is very valuable. But there's only one way to sell its stock. Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought … | David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune: |
Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic — New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …
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| Vijay Pandurangan / Medium: |
How logs of 173M NYC Taxi trips with poorly-anonymized driver data were easily deanonymized — On Taxis and Rainbows — Lessons from NYC's improperly anonymized taxi logs — Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis.
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| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
300K systems are still vulnerable to Heartbleed, unchanged from two months ago — 300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later — When the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced, we found 600k systems vulnerable. A month later, we found that half had been patched, and only 300k were vulnerable.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat's “Our Story” Is A Genius, Collaborative Reinvention Of The Livestream — What does it feel like to be a massive music festival? Nothing like a glossy livestream of the mainstage. Much more like Snapchat's new Our Story feature, a curated channel of user submitted photos of videos from all around a big event.| Eliana Dockterman / TIME: |
Google launches Made With Code website in $50M effort to get girls interested in coding — Google Invests $50 Million to Close the Tech Gender Gap — Imagine If Half of All Tech Inventions and Startups Came From Women — ‘Entrepreneur’ Barbie Heads for Silicon Valley With Some Glam Accessories| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google Tracker, I/O edition—what Google is working on before the big show — With Google I/O coming up in just a few days, it's time for a second edition of The Google Tracker, what we hope will be a bi-yearly look at what's going on at Google HQ. Just like last time, we'll have a potent mix of news …
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| Rob Williams / HotHardware.com News: |
Russia Industry And Trade Ministry To Replace Untrusted Intel And AMD Processors With Their Own ARM Designs — Sometimes, it's just better to build something yourself - even microprocessors. That's something that Russia proved this week as it was announced that the government would be funding …
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Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation — Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm — Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever … Sponsor Posts
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