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May 22, 2014, 4:15 PM

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple acknowledges iMessage issue, says bug fix coming in future software update — Apple's iMessage Issue Goes From Bad to Worse With Server Glitch — Apple's iMessage system is a model of convenience when connecting between iPhones. But trying to leave the ecosystem is the very definition of horror.

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Samsung is making a VR headset for its phones and tablets — Samsung is known for its ubiquitous Galaxy smartphones and tablets, popular smart televisions and, most recently, smart watches. The Korean consumer electronics giant is about to enter another major new category: virtual reality headsets.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

House of Representatives passes ‘gutted’ NSA surveillance reform — Privacy watchdogs hope Senate will roll back amendments to USA Freedom Act — The USA Freedom Act, a bill meant to end NSA surveillance of phone records, has passed the House of Representatives.

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Dustin Volz / National Journal:

Google, Facebook Warn NSA Bill Wouldn't Stop Mass Surveillance

More: Techdirt, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, RT, Daily Dot, US News, The Register, Guardian and emptywheel. Tweets: @trevortimm

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

The iPad's next killer app: Osmo connects iOS kids' games with the real world — “Everything we are doing here is magic.” I'm not usually someone who embraces Silicon Valley's tendency to paint every little product iteration as magical and revolutionary. But when Tangible Play co-founder …

More: Re/code, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, MacStories, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, bizjournals, LAPTOP Magazine, Forbes, VentureBeat, Wired, App Advice, Crowdfund Insider and Mashable. Tweets: @laurahazardowen. Thanks:@deaconlf

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users' Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends” — After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

T-Mobile launches VoLTE in its own backyard w/ support for LG G Flex, Galaxy Note 3, & Galaxy Light — Following announcements earlier this month from both AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile announced today it's introducing Voice over LTE support starting with Seattle.

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Adds “Okay Google” Voice Search For All Chrome Users — Maybe you already talk to your computer but now there's even more reason to - Google has just released the latest version of Chrome, which includes “Okay Google” triggered voice searches that work automatically, without requiring any clicks or other input prompting first.

More: Google Chrome, 9to5Google, Engadget, TIME, Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, Neowin, Electronista and Business Insider

Nick Summers / Businessweek:

How IBM is struggling as a late entrant to the cloud era and is unlikely to deliver high margins — The Trouble With IBM — In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA. The spy agency was collecting so much information, its computers couldn't keep up.

More: Business Insider and Gigaom. Tweets: @nytimesbits and @mims

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

HP drops $100 quad-core Android tablet into US market — Hewlett-Packard has undercut its $150 Android Slate 7 with a $100 tablet. And it's quad-core, to boot. — $100 gets you a quad-core HP 7 Plus tablet. — Hewlett-Packard — Quad-core doesn't get much cheaper than this.

More: 9to5Google, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Gigaom, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Android Central, AndroidGuys, LAPTOP Magazine and Ubergizmo

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Any.Do brings its popular task management app to the web — Any.Do is finally bringing its popular to-do app experience to the web. Today the company is launching its first web app, a project that Any.Do's team admits has been the most requested feature among its millions of users.

More: The Next Web, iMore, SlashGear, Engadget, Lifehacker and BetaNews

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer — MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it's attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go.

More: Gigaom, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable, rc3.org and 9to5Google

Tweets: @jfruh, @timanderson, @dannysullivan, @jacobian and @hmason

Thanks:@nethistorypod. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Storehouse Raises $7M From Sherpa And Others To Spread Its Story Creation Tool Beyond The iPad — Storehouse is a company we've written about a bit before. It's a beautifully constructed iPad app that lets you build stories on the fly from text, video and images.

More: Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, Mashable and VentureBeat

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Led by Apple Inc. iPhone, smartphones now account for 87 percent of U.S. handsets — New research by Counterpoint indicates that 87 percent of Americans upgraded to smartphones by the end of March, with Apple remaining the top vendor. — Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracker …

More: Counterpoint Technology …, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, SlashGear, SammyToday, MacNN and Ubergizmo

Tweets: @neiltwitz and @asymco

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Google Fiber: we don't charge for peering, don't have fast lanes — Google used its Google Fiber internet access business Wednesday to chime in on the continuing debate around peering and internet fast lanes, and guess what: the company doesn't use either.

More: Google Fiber Blog, The Register, The Verge, Engadget, Geek.com, TIME, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Turnstyle, The Next Web, BGR, SlashGear, Washington Post, DSLreports, 9to5Google, Techdirt and Dan Rayburn

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