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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 8 Offers Quick Access to Apps Based on Location — Apple outlined several of iOS 8's major features during yesterday's WWDC keynote, but with the operating system now in the hands of developers, details on several lesser known features have been leaking out.

More: 9to5Mac, eWeek, Gizmodo, Macworld, Gigaom, MacStories, Business Insider, App Advice, The Verge, ParisLemon, Apple Bitch, TechCrunch, BGR, iPhone Hacks and MacNN

Tweets: @ow, @fraserspeirs, @stevecheney, @mg and @fmanjoo

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 allows all apps to use Safari's JavaScript engine, improving performance of all browsers — iOS 8 WebKit changes finally allow all apps to have the same performance as Safari — When iOS 7 launched, developers discovered that their apps with built-in web browsers were unable …

More: App Advice, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks and TIME. Tweets: @mg

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 turns iPhone into the ultimate game controller for iPad & Mac, Game Center hits 130M monthly active users

More: AppleInsider, Macworld, PadGadget, I4U News, iMore, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, SlashGear and BGR. Tweets: @monkbent

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

AirPlay on iOS 8 doesn't need a network to stream your media

Xbox Wire:

45+ new apps for Xbox coming this year, including live TV-integrated Twitter app, Vine, HBO GO — Twitter, Vine, HBO GO, ShowTime Anytime, Comedy Central, and MLG among More Than 45 New Experiences Coming to Xbox — Today, just five days from the Xbox: Game On briefing at E3 …

More: GeekWire, PC World, Business Insider, PC Magazine, The Verge, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Forbes, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Kotaku, Eurogamer.net, Joystiq, GamePolitics blogs, Windows Phone Central, SlashGear, VG247 and Polygon

Tweets: @jeffgerstmann and @jeffgerstmann

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Xbox One update unlocks entertainment apps, adds real names — Update rolls out this week and adds external hard drive support — Microsoft is rolling out updates this week that will allow Xbox One owners to use external hard drives with their consoles, control their TVs using the OneGuide interface …

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Sources: Fab slowly shutting down; remaining NY employees to be gradually let go over 6 months — Fab.com Is Probably Dead This Year — There hasn't been a single piece of good news from Fab.com in a very long time. Layoffs, mismanagement, plummeting morale, and executive reshuffles …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @betashop, @betashop and @mattlynley

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Nags Another New Partner, Blaming Verizon for Slow Streams — Earlier this year, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Comcast, then complained about it. — Here's a new version of the story: In April, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Verizon.

More: Quartz, Digital Trends, Businessweek, BGR, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET News, The Verge, Ars Technica, DSLreports, TIME, CNET News, Consumerist, Business Insider, Geek.com, Electronista, Mashable, The Awl and SlashGear

Tweets: @yurivictor, @jsf33 and @amy_schatz

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple introduces MFi specs for Lightning cable headphones, support arriving in future iOS update — We've learned Apple has quietly introduced a new specification for manufacturers in its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program that allows them to create headphones that connect to iOS devices using …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, InvestorPlace, iMore, MacRumors, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo, AppleTell, iPhone, SlashGear, Electronista, Ubergizmo and App Advice. Thanks:@mikebeas

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast testing email encryption, will use it more broadly “within a matter of weeks” — Comcast to Encrypt Email for Security — Move Comes After Google Calls Out Other Email Providers for Not Using Encryption — Google Inc. wants to make encryption hip—and may have won a quick convert.

More: Gigaom, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, UPI and FanSided. Tweets: @csoghoian

Stephan Somogyi / Google Online Security Blog:

Google announces End-to-End Chrome extension alpha for sending secure emails with OpenPGP

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

TechCrunch Managing Editor Leena Rao joins Google Ventures as an Operating Partner — So Long TC, And Hello GV — I thought hard about this post, but time didn't make it any easier to write. After five-and-a-half years at TechCrunch, I'll be joining Google Ventures as an Operating Partner.

Tweets: @alexia, @jakek, @bensign, @startupljackson, @parislemon, @parislemon, @samfbiddle, @fromedome, @alexia, @mikeisaac and @hunterwalk. Thanks:@mkakav

Bloomberg:

GoPro Names Ex-Microsoft Executive Tony Bates as President — GoPro Inc., the maker of cameras used by surfers, skiers and sky divers to record their adventures, recruited former Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) executive Tony Bates as president and added him to the board.

More: Re/code, TechCrunch and WinBeta

Katie Zezima / Washington Post:

The Secret Service wants software that detects social media sarcasm. Yeah, sure it will work. — The Secret Service is looking to buy software that can detect sarcasm on social media. Whatever. We're sure it will work. — In a work order posted online Monday, the agency …

More: Charlie's Diary, CNET News, The Register, The Verge, Consumerist, SocialTimes, Daily Dot, Engadget, Inquirer, The Hill, Mediaite, Ubergizmo, NBC Bay Area and SlashGear

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Cut Off Glassholes' Wi-Fi With This Google Glass Detector — Not a fan of Google Glass's ability to turn ordinary humans into invisibly recording surveillance cyborgs? Now you can create your own “glasshole-free zone.” — Berlin artist Julian Oliver has written a simple program called Glasshole.sh …

More: BGR, Business Insider, Re/code, TechSpot, Mashable, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, TIME, Electronista and Fast Company. Thanks:@emilydreyfuss

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

LinkedIn revamps Premium Accounts to help paid profiles stand out from the crowd, adds $9.99/month subscription — LinkedIn today revamped its Premium Accounts with new features aimed at help paying members stand out from those using the free service. They all focus on the profile …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Official LinkedIn Blog, PC World and ZDNet

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Yext Raises $50 million at a $525 Million Valuation And Eyes A 2015 IPO — Yext, a company that helps businesses manage local listings and ad campaigns across the web, has raised a $50 million Series F round of financing. The round gives Yext a $525 million post-money valuation, up from a $270 million valuation in 2012.

More: Adweek, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code and BIA/Kelsey

Alex St. John / The Saint:

DirectX creator Alex St John says Metal announcement heralds the end of OpenGL as a gaming API — Apple Ditching OpenGL? — Wow, finally something interesting to say about Apple for a change! Apparently at Apple's recent WWDC event they announced a “competitor” to DirectX called “Metal” …

Tweets: @benjaminjackson and @ckindel

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Apple's single GPU architecture across devices and control over the OS give Metal an advantage over competing low-level graphics APIs

More: TIME, The Saint, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch and iLike.code

Tweets: @whatthebit and @id_aa_carmack

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