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June 16, 2014, 9:15 AM

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New York Times:

Profile of Tim Cook describes him as projecting “quiet consideration” towards design, details his involvement in iWatch development, more — Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn't forget.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power — In a first, one player got a monopoly of Bitcoin's total computational power. — For the first time in Bitcoin's five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than half …

More: Washington Post, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge and CryptoCoinsNews

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Tony Fadell reflects on his time at Apple, building Nest, and working at Google — Is Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or ... the next Larry Page? — At Apple he masterminded the iPod and was once seen as a potential CEO. Now the founder of Nest-which he recently sold to Google …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @tfadell, @blakeir, @jyarow, @salsop, @jyarow and @dujkan

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions — On Feb. 10, Jason Fyk received a strange Facebook message. — “Bro.” — The message had been sent by someone who wasn't his friend on the social network, someone using the alias “Anthony. *” It was a name Fyk had come to know and dread.

Thanks:@waqasaday

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Edward Snowden experiments with BeamPro telepresence robot to make appearances outside Russia — Inside Edward Snowden's Life as a Robot — Snowden appears via Beam bot in the ACLU's New York offices with (from left) journalist Laura Poitras, Freedom of the Press Foundation director Trevor Timm and security technologist Micah Lee.

Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:

To combat distracted driving, DoT seeks authority to regulate navigation aids, including apps — Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles — Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some cars.

Tweets: @kerrypicket

Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin Wallet, Apps Re-Enter iOS Store After Apple's Policy Shift — Apple is making good on its recent bitcoin policy shift, with a new bitcoin wallet app appearing for download in the iOS App Store. — The ‘Coinpocket’ app is described by its developer as a wrapper …

More: The Next Web, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iMore, VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, App Advice, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors and CryptoCoinsNews

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Tech Isn't All Brogrammers, It's Still Nerds Building New Things — R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater.

Tweets: @dtunkelang, @rands and @cdixon

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Behind the rise of The Wirecutter and This Is My Next, which simply tell you what to buy — Just Tell Me What To Buy — Yesterday, tech and culture website The Verge revived This Is My Next, a brand that the core team had used to transition away from their places at Engadget into their new home at Vox Media.

Tweets: @danackerman, @laurahazardowen, @mathewi and @nytfridge. See also Mediagazer

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Tesla's plan to share its tech is bold, exciting, and a sign of weakness — Big bets are nothing new for CEO Elon Musk — “This is actually good for Tesla and EV industry, that's really important to appreciate, and I really do believe that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a call today.

More: Gigaom, AVC, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and PC Magazine. Tweets: @codeorg

Andy Weir / Neowin:

Leaked document reveals branding implications for Microsoft's Nokia acquisition — Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's devices business was completed back in May, but many questions have remained over the integration of the two. One of the biggest areas awaiting clarification has been that of branding …

More: VentureBeat, @evleaks, The Register, DailyTech, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, MobileSyrup.com and Windows Phone Central

Tom Whitwell / Guardian:

Inside Shenzhen: China's growing technology hub for hardware startups — Inside Shenzhen: China's Silicon Valley — Just 30 years ago this Pearl River Delta megacity was a mere fishing village. Now home to up to 15 million people it hopes to become a tech nirvana for the world's hardware startups

Thanks:@srikardr

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