| Disrupt Europe lands in Berlin in less than 3 weeks with an outstanding agenda and speaker lineup. Register today! | Ingrid Lunden Nest Labs, the home hardware maker co-founded by two ex-Apple luminaries, is today unveiling its second product, Nest Protect, a $129 smart device that hopes to... read more | | | Darrell Etherington Google unveiled a new addition to its growing stable of Chromebooks today, the HP Chromebook 11. The $279 device is on sale now, and offers a white plastic case... read more | | | Darrell Etherington HTC's next big smartphone will offer up a fingerprint sensor like the iPhone 5s, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting, and will be unveiled on October 15.... read more | | | Darrell Etherington Google is said to be prepping an update to its Hangouts instant messaging/video chat Android app that would allow it to integrate with SMS, making it possible... read more | | | Matthew Panzarino | | | Alex Williams Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published... read more | | | Natasha Lomas The Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which costs as little as $25/$35 and has helped fledge many a DIY hardware project, has racked up worldwide sales of 1.75... read more | | | The annual Grace Hopper event for women in computing is billed not as a conference, but as a "celebration." So... read more | | | BranchOut's professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. Today the $49 million-funded startup... read more | | | Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin... read more | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |