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Lenovo debuts Yoga Book with 1080p touchscreen and touch panel for typing and writing, comes with stylus; Android version starts at $499, Windows 10 around $550 (Dan Seifert/The Verge) אסף מגידש

GoPro's launching 32 original shows by early 2017, some later this year; source says a cloud-based service is coming this year (Janko Roettgers/Variety) אסף מגידש

Samsung confirms that Galaxy Note 7 shipments have been delayed due to quality testing (Se Young Lee/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Samsung unveils Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier smartwatches; Frontier model includes LTE as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS; price and availability TBA (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple creates machine learning division, using team from recently acquired Turi and newly-hired devs and data scientists, to build product features (Jordan Kahn/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Dropbox breach from 2012, which prompted password resets last week, is now known to have affected 68M+ accounts, and leaked user emails, hashed passwords (Joseph Cox/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

HTC invests $5M in VR gaming startup Steel Wool Studios; startup founders say they will be free to develop for all VR platforms including Rift, PlayStation VR (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Obama to host White House Frontiers tech conference in Pittsburgh in October, guest-edit Wired Magazine's November issue as a tie-in (David McCabe/The Hill) אסף מגידש

Instagram now lets you pinch to zoom on photos and videos in feed, on profiles, and in the Explore tab on iOS (Napier Lopez/The Next Web) אסף מגידש

Compass raises $75M round at a $1B+ valuation, led by Wellington Management Capital, for real estate listings (Katie Roof/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Ultra-slim Windows 10 notebooks, 13-inch convertible Chromebook, and first curved screen laptop launched by Acer (Liam Tung/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Google launches In Apps, a way to search within apps on Android phones, works with Gmail, Spotify, and YouTube; support for more apps coming soon (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land) אסף מגידש

Google to use Okta as its preferred identity provider for Google Apps enterprise customers (Blair Hanley Frank/PCWorld) אסף מגידש

Facebook will let users save offers to new Offers tab, remind about those expiring, let brands use ad-targeting for offers, is working on unique redeem codes (Tim Peterson/Marketing Land) אסף מגידש

Amazon expands Dash Buttons beyond the U.S. and into the U.K., Germany, and Austria (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Hospitals experimenting with VR as a pain management tool as studies find sensory overload distracts the brain (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

LA judge dismisses key claims in Monster lawsuit against Beats ahead of scheduled trial next week (Associated Press) אסף מגידש

An early look at using Siri to control third-party app functions, like paying with Square Cash or sending messages with LinkedIn (Nathan Olivarez-Giles/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Corning unveils scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass SR+ for wearable devices, will be available in products later this year (Juli Clover/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Apple launches $20/mo 2TB iCloud storage plan ahead of iPhone 7 event (Jeff Benjamin/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Three former Facebook contractors say Trending news algorithm was not ready to run autonomously, user testing was overwhelmingly negative (Will Oremus/Slate) אסף מגידש

Google+ rolls out better community moderation, changes to notifications, still images and GIFs in comments, more, alongside overhauled UI announced last year (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) אסף מגידש

Apple condemns Australian banks' request to collectively bargain over Apple Pay in filing to antitrust watchdog the ACCC earlier this month (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider) אסף מגידש

Nearly half of the trustees of CIA's In-Q-Tel have financial conflict of interest with a firm funded by In-Q-Tel; trustee-connected firms funded on 17 occasions (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

PlayStation Now streaming service that lets you play legacy titles on Windows PCs is launches today with promo price of $100/year, less than half normal price (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Snapchat unpublishes its Facebook Page, which had over 6.5M Likes (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

University of Michigan study finds major flaws in MedSec's criticism of St. Jude cyber security, which had coincided with a deal to short manufacturer's stock (Ransdell Pierson/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Nest's platform team to become part of Google to create a unified IoT platform, which will be led by Hiroshi Lockheimer, currently SVP of Android (Fortune) אסף מגידש

Source: Google opening Waze-based carpooling service previously in testing to all SF-area Waze users this fall (Jack Nicas/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

EU telco regulator publishes final guidelines on net neutrality rules implementation, closing "zero rating", "fast lanes", and other potential loopholes (Amar Toor/The Verge) אסף מגידש

San Francisco-based WrkRiot goes offline amid allegations it lied about back pay by giving employees PDFs of fake wire transfers, which ex-CTO corroborates (Julie Bort/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Uber hires Target's CMO Jeff Jones as president, overseeing global marketing, customer service, and operations (Fortune) אסף מגידש

Researchers say version 2.92 of third-party BitTorrrent client Transmission, offered for a day for download from Transmission, was infected with OS X malware (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Snapchat releases a new web tool for making custom geofilters (Casey Newton/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Pebble updates its firmware to improve Pebble Health, timeline interface, app launcher, and iOS email actions ahead of the new Pebble Time 2 hardware (Matthew Miller/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Sources: this year's Google-branded Android phones will not use the "Nexus" name (Andrew Martonik/Android Central) אסף מגידש

Cisco buys container-as-a-service platform startup ContainerX, its first acquisition in the container market (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Unreleased Sony PS4 Slim model reviewed: no performance improvements over standard PS4, is quieter, smaller, and comes with updated DualShock 4 controller (Laura Dale/LetsPlayVideoGames.com) אסף מגידש

Ex-Facebook trending news curator: business side influenced editorial, challenging journalism ethics; the news algorithm needs major improvements (Tanya Dua/Digiday) אסף מגידש

The FCC will not appeal ruling by the Sixth Circuit that allows states to impose laws restricting the growth of municipal broadband (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Sonos speakers will integrate with Amazon's Alexa next year and will let Spotify's app control audio starting this October (John Biggs/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

In a competitive market, Twitter's revenue share deal is designed to appeal to YouTube stars, does not require content exclusives as part of the deal (Kurt Wagner/Recode) אסף מגידש

Source: Twitter expands Amplify Publisher program to individual video creators, giving them 70% of ad revenue, better than YouTube and Facebook's terms (Julia Boorstin/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Velocity, a short-notice premium restaurant booking app, raises $22.5M Series B led by DIG Investments, says funds will be used to expand into 29 cities by 2020 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Intel launches "Kaby Lake" 7th-generation CPUs with improved support for 4K video (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Apple: EU's claim that Ireland gave Apple a special tax deal "has no basis in fact or in law" (Tim Cook/Apple) אסף מגידש

Apple Ordered to Pay Up to $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Apple will appeal EU ruling, is confident decision will be overturned (BBC) אסף מגידש

EU orders Apple to pay up to €13B, or around $14.5B, for undue tax benefits in Ireland (EU Press Room) אסף מגידש

Google's new Crowdsource app for Android asks users to perform short 5-10 second tasks to improve Google services, currently offers no incentives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש