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June 4, 2014, 12:40 PM

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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: Macworld, Gigaom, MacStories, Business Insider, App Advice, The Verge, TechCrunch, Apple Bitch, ParisLemon, iPhone Hacks, BGR 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: VentureBeat, App Advice and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @mg

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: AppleInsider, Macworld, iMore, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, SlashGear, BGR and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @monkbent

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

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

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

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: The Verge, GeekWire, The Next Web, Forbes, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Kotaku, Eurogamer.net, Windows Phone Central, SlashGear, VG247 and Polygon

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 …

More: Xbox Wire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google, iMore, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, Joystiq, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, Softpedia News, CNET News, App Advice, Engadget, Kotaku and WinBeta

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.

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast testing email encryption, will use it more broadly “within a matter of weeks”

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

Brandon Long / The Official Google Blog:

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

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: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Re/code and BIA/Kelsey

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 and ZDNet

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, StrictlyVC, Uber Blog, ABC7 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, NBC Southern California, CBS Los Angeles, Mashable, LAist, KTTV Los Angeles, Valleywag, The Snitch, WebProNews and Tech2. Tweets: @rahulsood

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

Tweets: @whatthebit and @id_aa_carmack

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: Gizmodo UK, TIME, SlashGear, Electronista and Fast Company. Thanks:@emilydreyfuss

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

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

China Blocks Google, Puts Restrictions on LinkedIn Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary — China is ratcheting up scrutiny of foreign companies online ahead of the sensitive 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown Wednesday, presenting challenges to businesses that see it as a growth market.

More: Business Spectator, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Tech in Asia and Ars Technica

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

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: Domain Name Wire, Business Insider, Telegraph, Mashable, Electronista, Cult of Mac, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo Australia and SlashGear

Tweets: @healthkit, @joelhousman and @joelhousman

Thanks:@redgirlsays

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