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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple To Cease Development Of Aperture And Transition Users To Photos For OS X — With the release of OS X Yosemite later this year, Apple will cease the development of its ‘pro’ photo editing app. — “With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library …

Cade Metz / Wired:

How Instagram moved the service's more than 20 billion photos from AWS to Facebook servers — How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing — From left to right, Instagram and Facebook engineers Pedro Canahuati, Patrick Bozeman, Rick Branson, Nick Shortway …

More: Wired.co.uk, Instagram Engineering, VentureBeat, ZDNet, AllFacebook, Softpedia News, Business Insider and Data Center Knowledge

Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:

Nexus program manager Dave Burke says Google has no plans to stop making Nexus devices — No, Google Isn't Going To Kill Its Nexus Devices — Rumors of the demise of Google's Nexus line of “pure Android” devices have been greatly exaggerated. When Google launches the official release …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Neowin, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, The Tech Report, Gizmodo UK, CNET, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, Electronista, TechSpot, GadgeTell, BGR, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Ausdroid, Phandroid, SlashGear, Greenbot and Android Central. Tweets: @mattcutts

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Sources: Facebook has disbanded the original team of engineers working on Facebook Home — What Happened to the Facebook Phone? Not Very Much, It Seems — Facebook has long wanted to be a major part of how you use your smartphone. Now, it looks as if the company has all but abandoned one of its major strategies to do so.

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, AllFacebook, Pocketnow, Gigaom, SlashGear, The Next Web, Business Insider, TechHive, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim and 9to5Google. Tweets: @suzannespecnyt

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app — The “Internet of things,” the “Connected Home,” the “Smart Home,” whatever you want to call it, it's just a fancy way of turning your stuff on and off with your smartphone. Now GE has introduced a cheaper way to stay on the couch and control your lights.

More: GE Reports, GE, Gigaom, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, App Advice and PC Magazine. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Reuters:

Exclusive: HP to settle suits over Autonomy deal; make claim against ex-CEO Lynch — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co and attorneys representing shareholders have agreed to settle litigation over its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of British software company Autonomy Corp, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

More: Re/code, Gigaom, Electronista, bizjournals, Business Insider and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @ahess247

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

The NSA just posted its first-ever transparency report — The National Security Agency has posted its first full transparency report. Posted on the official agency Tumblr, the report breaks out the total number of orders for 2013, broken out into FISA orders, National Security Letters, and government requests for business records.

More: IC ON THE RECORD, Google Public Policy Blog, Wired, TechCrunch, Guardian, Federal Computer Week, The Register, PandoDaily, Electronista, The Next Web, Re/code, ZDNet, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Slate, Techdirt, TechSpot, Engadget and Gizmodo

Tweets: @realbengilbert and @mathewi

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Video Hangouts No Longer Require A Plugin On Desktop - If You're Running Chrome Dev Or Canary Channel — If you're a regular user of Google's video Hangouts service, you'll be glad to know that the experience on desktop for this service is about to get a little more stable (we hope).

More: Victoria Kirst, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google and Android Central

Marc Ferranti / PC World:

GoPro continues rise on day two of trading, now up nearly 50% from IPO price, as NASDAQ surges to highest point since spring of 2000 — Wall Street Beat: GoPro continues to soar after IPO as Nasdaq surges — Shares of action-camera maker GoPro shot up again Friday, a day after its IPO …

More: Outside Magazine, Fortune, Mercury News, ValueWalk, Benzinga, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Widespread outages leave Verizon customers without upgrades and online payments — Many Verizon Wireless customers are reporting that the carrier's online systems have been unavailable for well over 24 hours now. Complaints about the downtime are flooding Twitter; subscribers are currently unable …

More: Re/code, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Mashable, USA Today, Electronista, Consumerist and Digital Trends

Tweets: @chriswelch and @kevinmason

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

HP wins dismissal of lawsuit linked to ex-CEO Hurd's ouster — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the computer maker of securities fraud for misleading shareholders about its commitment to ethics while its chief executive was allegedly engaging in sexual harassment.

More: bizjournals, channelweb.co.uk, Channelnomics, Bloomberg, SiliconBeat and The Register

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox One achievements and game clips coming to Xbox.com next week — It's been more than six months since Microsoft launched its Xbox One console, and the company is now planning to refresh its Xbox.com service to bring some much needed features to the web.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, PC Magazine, FanSided, www.GameInformer.com, Polygon, SuperSite for Windows, Blue's News, Gotta Be Mobile, GeekWire, WinBeta, The Next Web, Windows Phone Central and destructoid

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