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May 30, 2015, 12:40 AM

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google's Project Vault Is A Secure Computing Environment On A Micro SD Card, For Any Platform — Project Vault is a secure computer contained entirely on a micro SD sized device. Google's ATAP said the micro SD format made sense because there's already advanced security features on your phone …

More: Mashable, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Android and Me, Electronista, The Next Web, Tech Times, PhoneDog.com and CNET. Tweets: @csoghoian

Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:

Google partially automates launches of Project Loon balloons, expands their range by passing Internet signals between them — Google Details New Project Loon Tech to Keep Its Internet Balloons Afloat — Google's Mike Cassidy describes two advancements that could help Project Loon become commercial as soon as next year

More: Engadget, 9to5Google and TIME

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google partners with Qualcomm on Tango reference phone, no longer requires preapproval to purchase Tango tablet — Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango — I'm standing in a strange, spartan space. There's a floor, but no walls.

More: PR Newswire, Fortune, Engadget, Android Central, Android and Me, SlashGear, Liliputing and PhoneDog.com

David Pierce / Wired:

With Project Jacquard, Google aims to bring touch sensors, haptic feedback, and more to fabric used for everything from jeans to car seats, partners with Levi's — Google Is Hacking Our Clothes to Work Like Touchscreens — If you want to understand a key piece of Google's vision …

More: Levi Strauss, The Verge, Fusion, The Verge, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fortune, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, The Next Web and POPSUGAR

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google begins testing Hands Free mobile payments system that lets users pay with spoken commands at a handful of McDonald's and Papa John's in the Bay area

More: Ars Technica, TIME, Gizmodo, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg Business, Engadget, GeekWire, PCWorld, Mashable and VentureBeat

Roberto Baldwin / Engadget:

Google's Project Soli brings gesture control to wearables by using radar to recognize motion

More: The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Liliputing and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mattcutts

Business Insider:

Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M — The founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to life in prison without parole — The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium …

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Snapchat has raised $537M in sale of common stock, at a valuation of $16B according to sources — Snapchat Raises Another $500 Million From Investors — Investment from Alibaba, others values popular messaging service at $16 billion — The demand to own private shares in Snapchat Inc …

More: Fortune, CNET, Bloomberg Business, Re/code, CNBC, Forbes and Los Angeles Times

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Sources: US tried deploying Stuxnet-style virus against North Korea five years ago to destroy equipment, but the campaign failed — Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed - sources — The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus …

More: Wired, Ubergizmo, The Register, The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, ITworld.com, Gizmodo, Fortune and The Next Web

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple vans are gathering data for in-house mapping database, collecting street-view imagery and taking stills of business storefronts to replace Yelp photos — Mystery solved: Apple vans gathering next-gen Maps data, grabbing Street View storefronts + 3D images

More: Forbes, BGR, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, TechSpot, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, iMore and Fortune. Tweets: @markgurman

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Jessica Verrilli, Twitter's Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, leaving for Google Ventures after six years — Exclusive: Jess Verrilli leaving Twitter for Google Ventures — Jessica Verrilli is stepping down as director of corporate development and strategy at Twitter TWTR …

More: Silicon Republic. Tweets: @shaig, @eringriffith and @jacob

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs — Facebook this afternoon confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed. Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the update is still rolling out.

More: The Next Web, Mashable, Wired, Fortune, PCWorld, TechRadar.com, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, Silicon Republic, PC Magazine, TechSpot, SlashGear, Yahoo Tech, The Verge and SocialTimes

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T wants to choose which online video services count against data caps — AT&T fights proposed ban on data cap exemptions in DirecTV merger. — AT&T doesn't want any rules preventing it from choosing which online video services count against its customers' data caps.

More: DSLreports, BGR, Consumerist and The Hill

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google SVP Sundar Pichai lays out his plan to deliver computing capabilities to billions through Project Loon and improve products through machine learning — Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai — Inside the mind of the man behind Google's most important products

More: The Verge and The Verge

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Google's I/O keynote suggests Google is poised to surpass Apple when it comes to mobile design

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @qhardy, @fmanjoo, @dannysullivan and @cwarzel

Selena Larson / The Daily Dot:

Diversity in Google I/O keynote featuring women and people of color onstage raised the bar for other technology companies

More: Google I/O 2015, Wired, Slate, Telegraph, Tubefilter, bit-tech.net, ITProPortal, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Tweets: @baekdal, @ow, @brokenbottleboy, @jacksmithiv and @ceodonovan

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Hola sells bandwidth and computing resources of idle user machines that make up its free VPN service, used in one case to mount a DDoS attack on 8chan — Hola VPN Sells Users' Bandwidth, Founder Confirms — Faced with increasing local website censorship and Internet services …

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