Techmeme

• Eero Home WiFi System 2 review: easier to setup and more powerful, but it is pricey and not the fastest mesh router among the competition (Michael Brown/TechHive)
• Internet radio service 8tracks hacked, usernames, email account details, and passwords stolen; LeakBase says 18M accounts, some from 2008, affected (Joseph Cox/Motherboard)
• Twitch says its mobile app has been installed 83M+ times and will update in early July with live streaming, its social feed Twitch Pulse, and dark mode theme (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• In filing, Uber suggests Levandowski downloaded Waymo IP as negotiating tactic for $120M bonus, reasserts that Kalanick told him to not share IP on disks (Kate Conger/Gizmodo)
• Sources: Andy Rubin-backed AR gaming glasses startup CastAR shuts down, lays off about 70 and is liquidating assets (Brian Crecente/Polygon)
• Interview with Lyft's John Zimmer on its culture, values, marketing strategy, and the firm's refusal to gloat over Uber's escalating woes, more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
• Malware spreading in recent outbreak is not ransomware, as "Petya" had been altered to wipe and destroy system memory, suggesting a nation state was behind it (Matt Suiche/Comae Technologies)
• Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
• iOS 11 on iPad Pro falls short of being a laptop replacement due to lack of precise pointer input, but side-by-side view and multitasking are getting better (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Google officially debuts its internal Area 120 startup incubator and announces a VR advertising project called Advr aimed at testing formats (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Analysis of EU's Google antitrust fine: digital monopoly definition and focus on promoting competition are good but punishing Google for being best is misguided (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
• A look at "new-collar" tech-focused jobs, supported by big firms like Microsoft and IBM, that aim to provide skills to workers without college degrees in the US (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
• Google Photos begins rolling out new suggested sharing features, including dedicated in-app sharing tab and optional automatic sharing (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
• Salesforce debuts three new AI-powered tools for developers building atop its Einstein platform, focused on sentiment and intent analysis and image recognition (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
• Alibaba to invest another $1B in e-commerce site Lazada, raising its stake from 51% to 83%, in a bid to extend its presence in the Southeast Asian market (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

TechCrunch

• Amazon?s 2017 Prime Day sale will be July 11th
• Just a few more weeks to apply for Startup Battlefield Africa
• The Eero Beacon is the perfect addition to its family of mesh WiFi products
• In aftermath of Petya, congressman asks NSA to stop the attack if it knows how
• It?s not your imagination, you are waiting longer for an UberPOOL using your commuter card
• Crunch Report | Tinder Unveils New Gold Subscription
• Teaching robots to learn about the world through touch
• Nutanix introduces two new tools in quest to simplify hybrid cloud management
• Lawsuit claims Uber ignored attempted murder conviction of driver who later raped passenger
• Twitch?s mobile app is adding live streaming, dark mode and more
• Analysts think Petya ?ransomware? was built for targeted destruction, not profit
• In new filing, Uber says it was unaware of Waymo data theft prior to lawsuit
• While investment firms ponder ICOs, this team is barreling ahead with a $100 million ICO fund
• Diabetes management platform Glooko raises $35 million
• Facebook Messenger launches Discover as it takes on chatbots (again)
• Sign up for a free Featured Pavilion exhibit at Disrupt SF
• The engineer behind the Not Hotdog app from ?Silicon Valley? put a lot of thought into AI
• 9 promising at-home lab test startups for everything from fertility to STDs
• Pornhub now supports interactive toys, proving porn paves the way
• Google Photos adds smarter sharing, suggestions and shared libraries

GigaOm

Silicon Alley Insider

• App-only bank N26 doesn't care about 'short-term profits' ? it wants to build a European bank that will make rivals 'redundant'
• Here's why Elon Musk is waxing philosophical about floors (TSLA)
• There will be 24 billion IoT devices installed on Earth by 2020
• A storage startup called off its $109 million IPO the night before it was scheduled to debut
• This $2.9 billion company's stock skyrocketed after signing a key deal with Google (NTNX, GOOGL)
• Elon Musk has officially started digging a tunnel under Los Angeles (TSLA)
• Blue Apron priced its IPO at $10 a share ? after slashing the amount it wanted to raise
• THE BLOCKCHAIN IN THE IoT REPORT: How distributed ledgers enhance the IoT through better visibility and create trust
• How to trick your phone into letting you curse
• 'Pokémon Go' is great again, thanks to its sweeping new update
• Here?s how iPhone usage breaks down in the US (AAPL)
• 'Turn the interview process on its head': A Facebook director shares 3 questions to ask in every job interview
• Facebook's leaked rules on censoring hate speech protect 'white men' but not 'black children' (FB)
• Rolls-Royce unleashed a menacing new convertible for younger buyers
• Oracle considered buying Peter Thiel's Palantir last year ? and an ex-Disney exec set up the meeting (ORCL)
• Salesforce's newest 'Einstein' AI tools can tell when people are mad in texts and emails (CRM, TWTR)
• How Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and tennis superstar Serena Williams met and fell in love
• Google will let anyone try some of its experimental apps from its new 'Area 120' division (GOOG)
• A historically black college just opened a campus at Google headquarters ? here's what it's like inside
• This futuristic NASA ship could reach the edge of the solar system

VentureBeat

Mashable

• 'The iPhone will fail' and other hot takes on the original iPhone
• This laptop sleeve says it can charge your computer, phone, and tablet at the same time
• Mysterious Frankenstein-like R2-D2 sells for $2.6 million
• Amazon and Whole Foods could finally convince skeptics to buy groceries online
• Google Maps now shows real-time public transport data in Australia's largest city
• Driverless vans will now deliver groceries in London
• Rapper Bobby Shmurda's arrest has an odd, crazy connection to Silicon Valley
• Congrats to the Portland Trail Blazers, who just won sports Twitter
• The NotPetya ransomware may not actually be ransomware at all — it could be something worse
• Notorious crow single-handedly shuts down mail delivery in neighborhood
• NASA finds signs of ancient 'Niagara Falls' of lava on Mars
• NASCAR just shared a recipe for deep-fried Coke, and our minds are blown
• Lost dogs finally reunite with family because they smelled sausage
• Travelers into the U.S. just dodged an expanded electronics ban — for now
• Dude tries showing off a fish he caught and fails miserably
• Rob Lowe says he had an encounter with Bigfoot and we don't believe him
• 'Game of Thrones' comes to Comic-Con—as a musical
• A civil rights organization is suing Uber for not having wheelchair-accessible cars
• 25,000 cheaters have already been banned from popular streaming game 'Playerunknown's Battlegrounds'
• Experts found fecal bacteria in Starbucks drinks and the internet is going crazy
• This facial recognition technology could help stop online child trafficking
• Kid immediately regrets trying to cut his own hair
• Google Photos is making sharing pictures with friends even easier
• Lin Manuel-Miranda's new charity challenge has inspired celebrities to sing some 'Hamilton' hits
• Watch out Google Earth, Apple Maps has a hidden VR-like 'flyover' mode
• Here's a way Facebook is actually fighting fake news
• Amazing tropical resort in 'Minecraft' makes us wish we were digital cube people
• These aren't stuffed animals, they're chiffon cakes
• Genius programmer hacks Mark Hamill's online game to make him face Darth Vader
• The iPhone 8 rumored to have super fast charging