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June 22, 2014, 10:05 PM

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Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014 — This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet — With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …

More: 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, Gizchina.com, AndroidOS.in, Ubergizmo, AndroidGuys, The Verge, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Android Beat, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo and Gizmodo. Tweets: @piercedavid

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines — Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …

More: Jason McCabe Calacanis. Tweets: @mikebutcher, @jrick, @lehmannchris, @dangillmor, @pankajontech, @peterlauria3, @nytimesbusiness, @vindugoel and @karaswisher

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Christopher Breen / Macworld:

A next-gen Apple TV, acting as a HomeKit hub, could let you control home devices on the road — Apple's HomeKit hub may already be in your house — At Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced—among a great many other things—HomeKit, a suite of tools …

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @danfrakes, @monkbent, @gte, @greengart, @gte and @laurengoode

Wall Street Journal:

Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation — Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm — Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever …

More: Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch and Re/code

Tweets: @pmarca, @qthrul, @stevesi, @inafried, @pmarca, @pmarca, @pmarca and @stevesi

Emily Badger / Washington Post:

Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years. Now Uber may be changing that. — CHICAGO — A taxicab is a car remade by government, modified dozens of ways by edicts within subsections of articles of the city's taxi code. — “Everywhere on this car has been regulated,” John Henry Assabill says.

More: Skift and VentureBeat. Tweets: @washingtonpost, @mheadd, @washingtonpost, @mattapuzzo, @stevesi, @mattyglesias and @codinghorror

Andy Baio / Medium:

How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs — Friending the App Store — How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here's one way to fix it. — I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely.

Tweets: @waxpancake and @zephoria

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead — Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That's when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves. It demoted a long-standing search feature involving …

More: Search Engine Watch

David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune:

Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic — New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …

More: Bloomberg View, GCN and Digital Trends

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Snapchat says Stories are viewed 1 billion times per day, are more popular than Snaps — Surprise: Snapchat's most popular feature isn't snaps anymore — Stories are now bigger than your self-destructing snaps — So, Snapchat's just for sexting, right? Apparently not.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @joshelman and @caseynewton

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Mozilla Says It's Not Working on a Firefox TV Dongle, but a Partner Could Be — A Twitter posting by a Mozilla developer evangelist has sparked belief that the company was readying its own take on Chromecast, with a dongle based on Firefox OS. — Christian Heilmann's tweet showed a picture …

More: The Register, San Francisco Chronicle, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends and HotHardware.com News. Tweets: @codepo8

Robert Graham / Errata Security:

300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later — When the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced, we found 600k systems vulnerable. A month later, we found that half had been patched, and only 300k were vulnerable. Last night, now slightly over two months after Heartbleed, we scanned again …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Neowin

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Q&A With Facebook's Joey Flynn: The Lead Slingshot Designer Wants To Change How 90% Of Us Use Social Networks — Slingshot is the second mobile app to come out of Facebook's new startup-like department, Creative Labs. Like photo messaging tools TapTalk and Snapchat, Slingshot lets users send images …

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