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WikiLeaks revealed private info for ‘hundreds’ of innocents — engadget

Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds — NPR

Singapore will ban civil servants from using the internet — The Verge

How a Twitter User Spoiled the Secret of Frank Ocean’s Woodshop Album Stream for ‘Endless’ Months Ago — Complex

The Rio Olympics Are Where TV Finally Sees the Future — WIRED

Tim Cook at 5 years: More profits, less innovation — USA TODAY

Hackers linked to Russian intelligence agencies target The New York Times — The Verge

Meet the man who wants to disrupt the Happy Birthday song — The Verge

Sony’s $25 USB dongle adds full DualShock 4 support to PC and Mac — The Verge

Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads — The Verge

Alone With You is a romantic adventure game by way of Star Trek — The Verge

Facebook is testing videos that autoplay with sound turned on — The Verge

Climate Hackers: One man’s plan to stop global warming by shooting particles into the atmosphere — The Verge

Hyundai and Amazon to let people order test drives online — The Verge

When ‘The Talk’ Is In Sign Language, There Is Clarity And Confusion — NPR

Google now lets you play solitaire and tic-tac-toe in search — The Verge

Frank Ocean and the cars of Blonde — The Verge

Tour Yosemite in virtual reality with Barack Obama — The Verge

Why can’t Apple spend its way out of security vulnerabilities? — The Verge

O F F  T H E  G R I D 

Baseball and Its Aging Fans — The Wall Street Journal

With the installation of the International Docking Adapter,