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June 2, 2014, 8:35 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Google plans to spend over $1B to deploy low altitude satellites for internet access in remote areas — Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access — Company Projects Spending More Than $1 Billion to Connect Unwired Reaches of the Globe — Google Inc. plans to spend …

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Samsung Tomorrow:

Samsung Launches Industry's First Tizen Smartphone - the Samsung Z — Samsung Z offers a unique user experience with advanced web performance and usability — Samsung Electronics today introduced the Samsung Z, the first commercially available smartphone powered by the Tizen platform.

Camille François / Wired:

Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry — In the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations, our society is struggling to equip itself with the laws and public understanding necessary to deal with the spread of technology into every corner of our lives.

More: The Verge

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

RSS client Reeder 2 for Mac now available on the Mac App Store — After a brief public beta period, the popular RSS client Reeder is out with the first update to its Mac software since Google Reader broke support Reeder last year. — The new version supports a number of RSS services …

More: iMore, Cult of Mac, MacNN, MacRumors, App Advice, iClarified, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories and Mashable

Tomio Geron / Exitround:

Report on tech M&A: raising more capital does not necessarily result in a larger exit price — The Exit Curve: Exitround's Report On Tech M&A — Raising as much capital as possible is often seen as a badge of honor in Silicon Valley. And there are many great reasons for startups to raise as much capital as possible.

Thanks:@jacob

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable:

Micah Lee: the man hired to keep First Look Media and the NSA documents secure — Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the Snowden Docs Aren't Hacked — In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald's computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA, perhaps by foreign spies.

Tweets: @jpbarlow, @mashable, @dangillmor and @trevortimm

Wall Street Journal:

Apple expected to reveal more iBeacon plans at WWDC amid growing adoption in retail — Apple's Latest Offering Explores the Great Indoors — Tech Giant Will Provide iBeacon Plans at San Francisco Developers Conference — Apple Inc. 's latest product to carry the “i” prefix …

More: MacRumors and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @daiwaka and @stevecheney

Mat Honan / Wired:

Making Glass cool: Google can learn from Beats by making endorsement deals with athletes — Why Only Beats Can Teach Google Glass How to Be Cool — When Apple dropped $3 billion on Beats this week, it was pretty clear Cupertino was more interested in the software and people than the hardware.

Tweets: @evelynrusli and @caseynewton

Shane Harris / Foreign Policy:

Exclusive: Inside the FBI's Fight Against Chinese Cyber-Espionage — SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German solar panel manufacturer knew that its Chinese competitors, backed by generous government subsidies, were flooding the American market …

Tweets: @sarahjeong and @kashhill

Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:

Iranian hackers posed as former UN ambassador John Bolton to extract information on LinkedIn — Iran Is Using a Neocon to Hack Its Foes — John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, is playing an unexpectedly prominent role in an Iranian cyberspying campaign.

Tweets: @pmarca

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Rumor: Google Exploring ‘KITT’ For Eyes-Free Functionality In The Car, Always-On Listening — A while ago, we posted about information we'd received indicating that sometime soon, Google's search functionality (and other actions) would be expanding beyond the Search app …

More: Search Engine Land, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Google, Engadget and Gizmodo

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