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June 4, 2015, 2:45 PM

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New York Times:
NSA documents: Justice Department authorized expansion of NSA surveillance to enable search of US Internet traffic for evidence of hacking originating abroad  —  Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border  —  WASHINGTON — Without public notice or debate …
Apple:
Apple Watch arrives in seven more countries on June 26, some models to start selling in retail stores in two weeks  —  Apple Watch Arrives in Seven More Countries June 26  —  Sales in Apple Retail Stores to Begin in Two Weeks  —  Apple® today announced Apple Watch™ will be available in Italy …
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dish in early stage merger talks with T-Mobile US; combined company likely to have Charlie Ergen as chairman, John Legere as CEO  —  Dish Network in Merger Talks With T-Mobile US  —  Dish, T-Mobile Have Agreed Charlie Ergen Would Be Chairman, John Legere CEO
James Niccolai / PCWorld:
Prototype of HP's ‘Machine’ server coming next year, but finished product with memristor technology is still years away  —  Prototype of HP's futuristic ‘Machine’ coming next year  —  A prototype of Hewlett-Packard's futuristic Machine computer will be ready for partners …
Molly McHugh / Wired:
Mac app Unicorns lets you plug in your phone or tablet and live-stream what's on its screen  —  New Livestream App Lets Strangers Watch You Use Your Phone  —  The success of Periscope and Meerkat shows livestreaming offers something beyond the practical intent of the technology.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Songkick And CrowdSurge Merge, Raise $16M To Combine Concert Discovery And Ticketing  —  Half of concert tickets go unsold because fans don't know the shows are happening.  To fix that, 10 million user concert discovery app Songkick is merging with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge.
More: Re/code, hypebot and Songkick BlogTweets: @joshconstine
Mark Harris / Guardian:
NASA and Verizon team up in $500K project to develop technology to monitor civilian and commercial drone use via cell towers, tests expected to begin in summer  —  Nasa and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers  —  Exclusive: Federal agency is developing technology …

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