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June 20, 2014, 1:10 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple's smartwatch likely to come in multiple sizes and designs, contain over ten sensors, including ones for health and fitness — Apple Plans Multiple Designs for Smartwatch — Wrist Device Will Include More Than 10 Sensors Including Ones to Track Fitness

Michael Gold / Reuters:

Apple's smartwatch to launch as early as October with 2.5" screen, wireless charging, pulse sensor, sources say

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Path Looks To Combine Commerce And Messaging With TalkTo Acquisition, Release Of New ‘Talk’ App — It's been a rough year for private social networking app Path. The company has seen disappointing growth in many major markets, layoffs, and the departure of some key execs over the last 12 months.

More: Path — Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, Re/code, 9to5Mac, Engadget, BetaBoston and Electronista. Thanks:@jordanrcrook

Drake Bennett / Businessweek:

Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of “Disruptive Innovation” — When The New Yorker this week published Harvard historian Jill Lepore's sharply written dismissal of “disruptive innovation,” it was an attack on one of the most widely cited and celebrated ideas in modern business.

More: Business Insider, Forbes and TechCrunch

Tweets: @yappelbaum, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @antonioregalado, @jeffjarvis, @qthrul, @karenmcgrane, @paleofuture, @reihan, @felixsalmon, @bw and @kevinroose

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

House passes amendment to cut NSA's “backdoor search” funding; manufacturers can't be forced to install “backdoors” in products — The House just overwhelmingly voted to rein in the NSA — The House of Representatives just overwhelmingly voted to rein in the National Security Agency.

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Yo App Hacked By College Students — A Georgia Tech student, together with two of his room mates, claims to have hacked Yo, the Poke-like app which has set some Silicon Valley alight (though not others) in the last 48 hours. [See update below: Yo has confirmed it has been hacked].

More: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, MacRumors, BBC, Washington Post, Slate, iMore, Quartz, Medium, TechHive, Phandroid, Gawker, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TIME, TUAW, memeburn, Geek.com, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Consumerist, CNET and CNBC. Thanks:@mikebutcher

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

32,000 servers using Supermicro motherboards broadcast admin password in plain text — At least 32,000 servers broadcast admin passwords in the clear, advisory warns — An alarming number of servers containing motherboards manufactured by Supermicro continue to expose administrator passwords despite …

More: CARI.net Blog, SANS ISC, Inquirer, HOTforSecurity, GadgeTell, Computerworld, Help Net Security, CSO Online and The Register. Tweets: @virusbtn

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

With Google Search on Android you can now launch music apps by tapping on a link to a song — Google's Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps, Turn On The Tunes — Google has taken another small step toward connecting its search engine with world of mobile apps …

More: Search Engine Watch, VentureBeat, The Verge, 9to5Google, Gigaom and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Scot Finnie / Computerworld:

After a 47 year run, Computerworld will publish its last print edition on June 23 — The continuing evolution of Computerworld — On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. — It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld's very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967.

More: Technologizer, Engadget and Ars Technica

Tweets: @loydcase, @codinghorror and @anildash

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