Mark Milian / Bloomberg: The Rest of the World Will Have to Wait for Apple's iTunes Radio  —  Apple Introduces ITunes Radio at Conference  —  ITunes Radio, the streaming-music service Apple announced yesterday at the company's developers conference in San Francisco, is set to hit the digital airwaves this fall.
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings  —  Bill would compel government to disclose opinions of secret Fisa court whose judgments underpin US surveillance programs  —  A bipartisan group of eight senators will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would force …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: Google Officially Closes Waze Deal; Will Keep It Independent  —  Google this morning said it had acquired mapping startup Waze, as we had expected it would.  —  Brian McClendon, who is the company's vice president of geo, paid tribute to the Waze community multiple times in a blog post.
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Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: Google Maps and Waze, outsmarting traffic together  —  We've all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated that you chose the wrong route on the drive to work.  But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out “fender bender …
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: Google Buys Navigation App Waze  —  Google finally purchased Israeli-based social navigation app, Waze.  —  Other interested parties included Apple and Facebook.  —  The amount hasn't been disclosed yet, but multiple reports suggest Waze was looking to sell for more than $1 billion.
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Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: Can Apple and Longtime Ad Partner “Think Different”?  —  Apple Stock a Buy Ahead of New Products: Munster  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) and TBWA\Chiat\Day, the agency behind the company's most memorable advertisements, are embarking on a new campaign designed to revive interest in an aging product line …
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Erica Ogg / GigaOM: Letterpress, Evernote, Procreate top Apple's list of best-designed apps of 2013  —  As part of its role as a design-centric company and so it can continue to encourage the best practices of appmakers, Apple on Monday evening announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2013.
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Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: 86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying  —  Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union …
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Diane Bartz / Reuters: Netflix does not infringe on Rovi patents - preliminary ruling  —  (Reuters) - The internet video streaming service Netflix Inc does not infringe on Rovi Corp patents for interactive television program guides, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Pinterest Pushes Global Growth With A Localized Version For France, Its First Non-English Site  —  Pinterest, the image-based social network, is picking up more global momentum: today, it announced the launch of a new site in French, with users in France getting pushed more localized content …
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AppleInsider: All Macs capable of running OS X Mountain Lion likely compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks  —  According to the release notes accompanying Monday's OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview, the OS is compatible with all Macs able to run the current version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Analysis: The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013  —  Used game support and lower-priced hardware create a PR coup.  —  Over the past ten years attending events like E3 and the Game Developers Conference, I have been to at least 40 press conferences held by console makers or game publishers both major and minor.
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Dmitri Sarle / ArcticStartup: iZettle Receives €5 Million From EU's Largest Bank - Banco Santander  —  Today, iZettle announced a strategic investment of €5 Million from Banco Santander, the EU's largest bank by market cap and one of the largest banks in the world.  How big is that?
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Twitter #music has its own ‘trending’ station on iTunes Radio  —  Here's something small, but interesting from Apple's announcement last night of iTunes Radio.  It seems Twitter is getting its own station within the streaming radio service.  Check the image on the right …
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Shibani Mahtani / Digits: Microsoft Plots 2014 Launch for Xbox One in Asia  —  Asian gamers will have to wait a year longer than their American counterparts to get their hands on Microsoft's Xbox One, which will only be available in the region in late 2014, a year after its U.S. launch this November.
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Dara Kerr / CNET: Google to be banned in Pakistan if it doesn't clean up YouTube  —  The country's new IT minister reportedly says the Web giant must remove “blasphemous and objectionable material” from its video sharing site, or face serious consequences.  —  With YouTube already shuttered in Pakistan …
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New York Times: How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story  —  WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Lamoda, The Samwer Brothers' Russian Online Fashion Store, Snags $130M Led By Access Industries  —  Lamoda, the Russian online fashion site incubated by the Samwer Brothers' Rocket Internet, is upgrading its wardrobe.  On Tuesday, the company is announcing a new injection of $130 million …
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: Connecting The PRISM Dots: My New Theory  —  The PRISM story firmly changed course yesterday when The Guardian published a video interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  If you haven't watched the interview, you should.  It's historic and fascinating.
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Brad Stone / Businessweek: Meet the Ava 500, the Roomba's Corporate Cousin  —  Since the founding of iRobot Corporation more than 20 years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout has produced robots that vacuum and mop floors, clean gutters and patrol warzones.  The Bedford, Mass-based company has sold …
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Washington Post: Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA  —  Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information …
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Casey Newton / The Verge: Sony to require PlayStation Plus membership for online multiplayer gaming on PS4  —  Playing online multiplayer games on PlayStation 4 will apparently require a PlayStation Plus membership, Sony said today during its E3 liveblog.  A slide shown during the presentation said “immersive multiplayer online” …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: iOS 7 Fights Mobile Spam With Option To Block Calls And Texts From Specific Numbers  —  Telemarketing spammers bothering you?  Clingy exes calling in the middle of the night? iOS 7 will let you block calls from specific numbers to save your sanity.  Rather than allow third-party developers …
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg: U.S. Surveillance Leak in Criminal, Congresssional Probes  —  An ex-CIA worker's exposure of a once-secret U.S. electronic surveillance program has spawned a criminal investigation and congressional questions about the ability of a low-level employee to breach national security.
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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: 2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside  —  This morning Apple updated its MacBook Air to Intel's Haswell ULT silicon.  The chassis itself didn't get any updates, nor did the displays.  Both the 11 and 13 inch models retain their non-Retina 1366 x 768 and 1440 x 900 displays.
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