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June 23, 2014, 11:05 AM

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July — Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.

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James Temple / Re/code:

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Robert Graham / Errata Security:

300K systems are still vulnerable to Heartbleed, unchanged from two months ago — 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.

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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 …

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

Uber blocking secondary stock sales, has recently offered early shareholders buybacks at a price pegged to sub-$4B valuation — Uber plays hardball with early shareholders — Uber is very valuable. But there's only one way to sell its stock. Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought …

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Vijay Pandurangan / Medium:

How logs of 173M NYC Taxi trips with poorly-anonymized driver data were easily deanonymized — On Taxis and Rainbows — Lessons from NYC's improperly anonymized taxi logs — Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Snapchat's “Our Story” Is A Genius, Collaborative Reinvention Of The Livestream — What does it feel like to be a massive music festival? Nothing like a glossy livestream of the mainstage. Much more like Snapchat's new Our Story feature, a curated channel of user submitted photos of videos from all around a big event.

More: Digital Trends. Tweets: @joshconstine

Eliana Dockterman / TIME:

Google launches Made With Code website in $50M effort to get girls interested in coding — Google Invests $50 Million to Close the Tech Gender Gap — Imagine If Half of All Tech Inventions and Startups Came From Women — ‘Entrepreneur’ Barbie Heads for Silicon Valley With Some Glam Accessories

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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 …

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Julianne Pepitone / NBC News:

Why ISIS' Social Media Campaign is ‘Even More Brutal’ Than Most — With a reported $2 billion war chest, ISIS is unusually well funded. Its relatively large force of 10,000 relies on more foreign fighters than most. And, perhaps most infamously, the group is too extreme even for Al-Qaeda.

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google Tracker, I/O edition—what Google is working on before the big show — With Google I/O coming up in just a few days, it's time for a second edition of The Google Tracker, what we hope will be a bi-yearly look at what's going on at Google HQ. Just like last time, we'll have a potent mix of news …

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