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Curt Woodward / Xconomy:

Apple's Boston-Area Team: Working on Speech in Nuance's Backyard — It's been one of the Boston-area tech industry's more intriguing questions for months: Just what is Apple doing here? — Today, we've got an answer. — Apple has assembled a small team of notable names in speech technology …

More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, PhoneArena, iMore, GeekWire, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Electronista, GigaOM, iClarified and iLounge. Thanks:@curtwoodward

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Ballmer admits Microsoft built too many Surface RTs, disappointed with Windows sales — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that the company built too many Surface tablets, and it's not selling as many Windows devices as it wants. During an internal town hall event earlier this week …

More: BGR, TechSpot, Macgasm, Pocketnow, LiveSide.net, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Computerworld, GeekWire, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Mashable, Business Insider, PC World and Softpedia News

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart selling the new Nexus 7 four days early — Having already launched its pre-orders ahead of the official Nexus 7 announcement, Best Buy is keeping up the habit of preempting Google by making the new Android slate available early.

More: Engadget, TechHive, Examiner, Pocketnow, Unwired View, Phones Review, SlashGear, CNET, Gizmodo, GigaOM and Mashable

David Pierce / The Verge:

Google Nexus 7 review (2013)

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

New Nexus 7 now available through Google Play ahead of expected release date

More: The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget and BGR. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet — “I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning.

More: Gizmodo, Business Insider and TechPresident. Thanks:@kashhill

Todd R. Weiss / CITEworld:

Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads — Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive 31,000 free iPads this school year under a new $30 million program launched by the district. The goal is to improve education and get them ready for the workforce …

More: BGR, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Fast Company, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, TUAW, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, iDownloadBlog.com, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Engadget and MacRumors

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Apple's Developer Center returns after 8-day outage due to security breach — After being down for more than a week due to an embarrassing security breach, Apple has brought its Developer Center back up. — Apple took the site down last Thursday, eventually notifying developers that it was overhauling its systems after an intrusion.

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Reuters, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Digits, The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget, AppleInsider, SlashGear, TUAW and The Mac Observer

Andy / TorrentFreak:

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal — On Monday David Cameron told his citizens that by the end of the year broadband subscribers will be required to go through a compulsory system which will decide what they can and cannot see on the Internet.

More: Open Rights Group, ReadWrite, Plagiarism Today, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Boing Boing, Yahoo! News, Inquirer and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Dave Lee / BBC:

Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM

More: BGR, Engadget, Mashable, Electronista, Boing Boing, Quartz, Business Insider and Techdirt. See also Mediagazer

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Google+ Local iOS App to be retired August 7 — Now that the updated Google Maps iOS application has Google+ Local features baked in, the company has made the decision to axe the Google+ Local application. The announcement was made through an email: … Thanks, Michael! — B

More: Engadget, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, MacRumors, App Advice, SocialTimes, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, WebProNews and AppleInsider

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Compared: What You Can Watch On Google Chromecast, Apple TV & Roku — Want to stream content from the internet to your TV? There's a new player in town, Google's Chromecast. It's super easy to use and priced to move. What's not to like? If you're happy with just Netflix, you're good.

More: GigaOM, TUAW, Electronista, MacRumors, Tubefilter, iMore, dailywireless.org and 9to5Mac

Ryan Knutson / Digits:

Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits — Apple has fallen off the profit throne. — Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. — Samsung's operating profit for handsets …

More: CNET, StreetInsider.com, BGR, BBC and Guardian

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Starbucks and Powermat bring wireless charging to select Silicon Valley shops — Following a successful trial rollout at 17 stores in Boston, Starbucks has decided to join up with Powermat to bring the company's wireless charging tech to Silicon Valley. The first installation will be completed …

More: PR Newswire, Corporate Intelligence, TechCrunch, The Verge, GigaOM, The Verge and GeekWire

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Pinterest Allows Users to Opt-Out of Being Tracked — In Silicon Valley there are hundreds of companies that track people's habits with the hopes of offering more intrusive advertising. There are, in comparison, very few Valley start-ups that give people the opportunity to opt out of that tracking.

More: Oh, How Pinteresting!, TechCrunch, Center for Democracy …, AllThingsD, The Verge, Engadget, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VentureBeat and Marketing Land

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Hacker Barnaby Jack dies just before Black Hat presentation on lethal pacemaker hacks — Reuters reports that hacker Barnaby Jack, who was headed to the Black Hat hacker convention to present techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that could kill their user from 30 feet away, has died unexpectedly.

More: Reuters, Guardian, The Verge and SlashGear

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Accounted for a Third of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter, While Apple's Share Fell — Samsung's second-quarter smartphone shipments hit 76 million last quarter — up 56 percent from the prior year, and giving the company a 33 percent share of the global market. — iStockphoto | aluxum

More: Tech Trader Daily, Wireless Smartphone Strategies, BGR, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Crave, The Register, Digits, CNET and Wireless Device Strategies

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

IDC: Apple, Samsung lose smartphone market share as Lenovo and others see greater growth

More: Mercury News, Forbes, AndroidHeadlines.com, Marketing Land, TUAW, NEWS.com.au, memeburn, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, SlashGear, DigiTimes, iPhone Hacks and Inquirer

Digits:

Google Has Shown Another Living Room Device — Google's home-entertainment experiments extend beyond the gadget the company announced Wednesday, which turns TV sets into an extra screen for watching Web videos and other content. — The Internet giant in January used the Consumer Electronics Show …

More: AppleInsider, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Yahoo! News, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidHeadlines.com, Electronista, Engadget, The Next Web and TechnoBuffalo

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google reportedly demoed Android set-top box with camera and motion sensor in January

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