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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.

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: @davegirouard, @nytimesbits, @mims and @mattlynley

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Facebook product director rants about media; media respond by noting Facebook's influence — Facebook product director furious at Facebook's effect on news — Mike Hudack — who, importantly, is Director of Product at Facebook — has a little rant about the state of the media and his view …

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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 …

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

HP Shares Fall on Light Results; Plans to Cut up to 16,000 More Jobs — Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported results for its second fiscal quarter about 20 minutes earlier than scheduled, and the press release appears to be incomplete. They're more or less in line with the consensus …

More: Gigaom, Fortune, Mercury News, The Register, ABC News, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, VentureBeat, New York Times and Bloomberg

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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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.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, ZDNet, Wired, Mother Jones, TechCrunch, Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Hill, Washington Post, Mashable, CNET News, RT, TechPresident, Re/code, Guardian, Associated Press, ABC News, Computerworld, The Daily Caller and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @eff

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

One-time Evernote rival Springpad to close its doors — Springpad, a productivity app that struggled to stand out from similar offerings from Evernote and Pinterest, is planning to close its doors, The Verge has learned. The six-year-old Boston company, which raised more than $7 million …

More: Gigaom and Phandroid

Wall Street Journal:

Uber close to raising a new round of nearly $500M, valuing the company at over $12B — Uber Inc. Talking With Several Fund Managers to Raise About $500 Million — Drivers-for-Hire App Firm Seeking Investment Which Could Value Company at Over $12 Billion

Tweets: @jmcduling and @evelynrusli

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”.

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, Engadget, 9to5Google, TIME, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Neowin, Electronista, Search Engine Land and Business Insider

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, Lifehacker, BetaNews, iMore, SlashGear and Engadget

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. — b) Sisyphus. Condemned to rolling a huge boulder up a hill, and then watching it roll back down again, over and over forever.

More: TheStreet.com, Business Insider, The Financial Express, LAPTOP Mag and ZDNet

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

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: Online Marketing Blog, WebProNews, Gigaom and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @jfruh. 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

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