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Apple's streaming-media gadget gets ESPN and HBO programming, Facebook for iOS adds emoticons, and Sony works to fix a buggy PS3 update.

Rob Rhinehart says that his company will leverage $635,000 in crowd-funding to get manufacturing up-and-running for Soylent, his food replacement product. With years of shelf-life, the dry powder is easy to store and transport, and it has everything a body needs to survive. Rhinehart's early adopters are quantified-self hipsters, but he has much, much bigger plans -- like solving the global food crisis.

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Yahoo says government made 13,000 requests for data

Apple's recently released iOS 7 Beta is mostly an aesthetic upgrade but also boasts some new features and capabilities (and a few bugs, too). Music: "Plea From the Cosmos" by C. Masta

What goes into the algorithm for the perfect viral video?

The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May_ a steady pace that shows strength in the face of tax increases and government spending cuts if not enough to reduce still-high unemployment. (June 7)

Rick Horrow on the deal between the NFL and Verizon.