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Stephan Somogyi / Google Online Security Blog:

Google announces End-to-End Chrome extension alpha for sending secure emails with OpenPGP — Making end-to-end encryption easier to use — Your security online has always been a top priority for us, and we're constantly working to make sure your data is safe.

Brandon Long / The Official Google Blog:

Google warns that 40-50% of messages sent between Gmail and other services are unencrypted

More: Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, AfterDawn.com, Techdirt, Marketing Land, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronista, ITworld.com, The Next Web, USA Today, ZDNet and FT.com

Tweets: @msuster, @declanm, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @dannysullivan and @dangillmor

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: Business Insider, MacStories, The Verge, TechCrunch, App Advice, Apple Bitch, iPhone Hacks, BGR, ParisLemon and MacNN

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

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

AirPlay on iOS 8 doesn't need a network to stream your media — Right now, Apple's AirPlay media streaming requires an established WiFi network to fly. That's fine when you're at home, but do you really want to ask for a friend's hotspot password just to show vacation photos on their Apple TV?

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacStories, Gotta Be Mobile, Tech2, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, iMore, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Socialnomics. Tweets: @stevesi

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 turns iPhone into the ultimate game controller for iPad & Mac, Game Center hits 130M monthly active users — Apple took some time to talk gaming during a presentation closed to the public yesterday at WWDC. While noting that gaming is now an area that Apple is “pushing on very strongly” …

More: iMore, Redmond Pie, BGR, Pocketnow, SlashGear and iPhone Hacks

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: Fast Company. Thanks:@emilydreyfuss

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 — Some Thoughts on Apple's Metal API — Though it seems like Apple's hardware divisions can hardly keep a secret these days due to the realities of mass production …

More: iLike.code, TechCrunch and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @whatthebit and @id_aa_carmack

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Touch-first Microsoft Office for Android to beat Windows 8 version to market — Summary: In another example of Microsoft's mobile-first strategy, the company is expected to make the Android version of its core touch-first Office apps available months ahead of the Windows 8 variant.

More: MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, BGR, SlashGear, Android Central, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Neowin, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile and WinBeta

Klint Finley / Wired:

A look at Contiki, the 10yo OS that fits GUI, networking and browser into less than 30KB — Out in the Open: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things — You can connect almost anything to a computer network. Light bulbs. Thermostats. Coffee makers. Even badgers.

Tweets: @adunk, @peternotail, @somebitslinks and @klintron

Dennis Romero / LA Weekly:

Uber driver accused of kidnapping a drunk passenger and taking her to a motel, but wasn't on the Uber system at the time — Uber Driver Allegedly Kidnapped L.A. Club-Goer, Took Her to Motel — A 26-year-old female clubgoer was allegedly kidnapped by an Uber driver and taken to a motel in Panorama City, police said today.

More: KTLA 5, NBC Southern California, Los Angeles Times, Uber Blog, CBS Los Angeles, ABC7 Los Angeles, Valleywag, KTTV Los Angeles, LAist, Mashable and The Snitch. Tweets: @rahulsood

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft makes available first test build of ‘Visual Studio 14’ — Summary: Microsoft has released a first preview of its its 'Visual Studio ‘14’ development environment, which the company is planning to roll out in calendar 2015. — Microsoft made available for download …

More: MSDN Blogs, MSDN Blogs, InfoQ, Neowin and WinBeta

Sam Byford / The Verge:

PSP stops shipping in Japan ten years after going on sale — The biggest threat to Nintendo's handheld dominance bows out — Nearly ten years after first going on sale in Japan, the PlayStation Portable has reached the end of the line in its home market.

More: Polygon, ABC News, Guardian, Joystiq, Re/code, VG247, AfterDawn.com, SlashGear, Engadget, in Anime and PC Magazine

Christina Bonnington / Wired:

A Startup Called HealthKit Isn't Pleased That Apple Is Using Its Name — HealthKit already exists, and it doesn't belong to Apple. — The HealthKit website and Twitter handle both belong to an Australian startup of the same name. It's a global health platform connecting doctors …

More: Telegraph, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo Australia, App Advice and SlashGear

Tweets: @healthkit, @joelhousman and @joelhousman

Thanks:@redgirlsays

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Google Hangouts go corporate with integration into business apps — If you're not quite sure how serious Google is about wooing business users, here's another indication that it is: the company is working with enterprise-y software companies to put the Google Hangout button on their websites or applications.

More: Google Enterprise Blog, BetaNews, VentureBeat, CITEworld and ZDNet

Ryan Whitwam / Geek.com:

Valve shows off updated VR headset prototype with Dota 2 demo — Have you heard? Virtual reality is a thing again. The trend kicked off by the Oculus Rift head-mounted display has ensnared companies like Sony, Samsung, and Valve, and the latter has only recently started showing off its secret VR project.

More: TechCrunch, Road to Virtual Reality, The Verge, VG247, IGN, Eurogamer.net and The Next Web

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:

Samsung Tizen TV prototype shows what could be in store for the Smart TV — Samsung has shown off a prototype Tizen TV at a Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco, showing us what could be in store for the company's range of Smart TVs in the future. Although spokespeople at the event were keen to stress that this is merely...

More: Engadget, Tom's Guide, Re/code, Electronista, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica and Connectedly

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Kickstarter simplifies rules for campaigns, allows any project that isn't illegal or dangerous, offers “Launch Now” option to skip approval process — Kickstarter's next campaign — The original crowdfunder is loosening its rules and opening the floodgates

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple's Health Offerings Focus On Data Collection, Not Interpretation — One of the major announcements in Apple's iOS 8 presentation yesterday was the Health app and the HealthKit system that allows developers to feed data into the app. — HealthKit is being billed as a unifying force …

More: mobihealthnews and AppleInsider

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Cloudera acquires big data encryption specialist Gazzang — Hadoop software company Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption software for big data environments. It's Cloudera's first significant acquisition (it bought machine learning startup Myrrix in 2013 in more of an …

More: Cloudera, SiliconANGLE, CMSWire.com, Austin American-Statesman and Xconomy. Tweets: @ahess247

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google launches 64-bit version of Chrome, starting with Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Google today announced the debut of a 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows, starting with the introduction of 64-bit Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.

More: Chromium Blog, TechSpot, Tech2, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Load the Game, BetaNews, Electronista, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and Lifehacker

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