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May 22, 2014, 12:15 AM

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Associated Press:
Recall announced for all 440k Nest smoke detectors due to previously-disclosed safety issue with wave-to-dismiss feature  —  Nest recalling 440,000 smoke alarms for safety risk  —  NEW YORK — Nest Labs is recalling 440,000 smoke alarms to fix a feature that could prevent the alarm from sounding immediately.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs  —  Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media.  A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer …
Matt Haughey / Medium:
Google probably considers MetaFilter a haven for comment spam, despite best-in-industry moderation  —  On the Future of MetaFilter  —  Peak ads, MetaFilter's Google Problems, and the need to scale back.  —  MetaFilter is the little weblog that could, established in 1999 as one of the first community blogs.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple confirms WWDC 2014 keynote to be held Monday, June 2nd at 10 AM PT; new hardware likely  —  This morning, Apple revealed the schedule for next month's Worldwide Developers Conference.  To start things off, an Apple keynote will be held from 10AM to 12PM on Monday, June 2nd at Moscone West.
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
Oculus VR and Palmer Luckey being sued by CTO's former employer (update)  —  Oculus VR and co-founder Palmer Luckey are being sued by Zenimax Media and id Software, the former employer of Oculus VR chief technical officer John Carmack.  The suit claims that John Carmack, while employed by id Software …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Darkcoin, which offers greater anonymity than bitcoin, rises tenfold in value in only a month  —  Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming  —  Someone out there likes anonymous money.  —  In only a month, the little-known bitcoin alternative known as Darkcoin has rocketed nearly tenfold …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
eBay Advises Users To Change Passwords Following Cyberattack, “Large Number” Of Users Affected  —  Following an odd blog post which appeared overnight and then was quickly taken down which alerted eBay users to reset their passwords, eBay has now published its official statement informing …
Major Nelson / Xbox Wire:
External Storage, Real Names and More Coming with Xbox One System Update in June  —  With the next system update coming in June, we're thrilled to announce two of your most-requested features will be here soon: external storage support and real names for identifying your friends.
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Patent reform dies in Senate as Leahy pulls plug on key bill  —  A closely watched patent reform bill failed on Wednesday as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that he lacked the bipartisan support to push the bill forward.
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Chart Shows Which Content Owners Have Direct Interconnect Deals With ISPs  —  With all the confusion in the media around the topic of interconnects, I thought it would be helpful to show exactly which content owners have done direct interconnects with ISPs.  While some members of the media …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Renews Rights to Liquidmetal Technologies' Alloys for Consumer Products  —  Apple has renewed exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal Technologies' metal alloys in consumer electronics items, according to a filing with the SEC.  —  The rights were originally purchased back in 2010, to run through February 2014.
Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:
Spotify reaches 10M paid subscribers, launches in Brazil next week, still isn't profitable  —  Streams of Tears: Why Spotify Can't Make Money  —  Daniel Ek has devoted most of his waking moments over the past few years to evangelizing about the glories of streaming music.  He's well suited to the task.
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:
WhatsApp to grow footprint eightfold with new office in downtown Mountain View  —  WhatsApp, Facebook Inc.'s $19 billion baby, just signed a major long-term lease in downtown Mountain View that will expand its footprint 700 percent — hinting at the five-year-old instant messaging company's ambitions.
More: GizmodoTweets: @davemcclure and @cwarzel
Loek Essers / Computerworld:
Google plans international acquisitions worth up to $30B, it tells SEC  —  Google passed on a potential acquisition of a non-U.S. company worth up to $5 billion, it said  —  Google plans to spend $20 billion to $30 billion of its of its accumulated international profits to fund potential acquisitions …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Yelp will start letting users upload 3-12 second videos in early June  —  Yelp Is Adding A New Video Feature To Its Reviews  —  Yelp is adding a new video feature to its app that will let users upload short clips in the same way that they would upload photos.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The Intercept's Micah Lee releases OnionShare, a free tool for anonymous file-sharing over Tor  —  Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously  —  When Glenn Greenwald discovered last year that some of the NSA documents he'd received from Edward Snowden had been corrupted …
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