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April 7, 2012, 10:45 AM

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Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say — When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future. The video Google released yesterday showed us the point …

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John Pavlus / Technology Review:

An Expert's View on Google's Goggles — Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses. — Project Glass, the latest sci-fi concept to come out of Google's X Lab, has gotten a lot of attention online in the past 24 hours thanks …

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Randi Zuckerberg Defends Her Reality Show: Hey Silicon Valley, Stop Being Snobs — Randi Zuckerberg has ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement that she is co-producing “Silicon Valley,” a reality show set to air on Bravo that purports to be all about the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene.

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Boonsri Dickinson / Business Insider:

Meet The 7 Stars Of The New Silicon Valley Reality Show — Okay, maybe it is time to start saying we're in another tech bubble. — Bravo announced yesterday a new reality show called “Silicon Valley.” — Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's sister, will be a producer.

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

What's This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java. — When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it's just another day. — That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability …

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Next Generation Of E-Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen — Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a surprise when you find …

More: Engadget, Good E-Reader, The Verge, Computerworld, The TechBlock, MacNN, SlashGear, Geek.com, Liliputing and Business Insider. Thanks:@elinblesener

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has “No Desire To Litigate” — This particular case, Hard Drive Productions, Inc. -v- Does 1-90, sees the well-known porn company plaintiff follow the now well-trodden copyright troll path. — Gather IP addresses from BitTorrent networks and go to court …

More: Ars Technica, WebProNews and Slashdot

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase — Office Depot probably isn't the first place you'd think to look for Samsung's incoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), but it looks to be the first legitimate retailer to throw a price tag on the aforementioned slate.

More: Liliputing, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, The Verge and Android Phone Fans

Roger Cheng / CNET:

More HTC handsets with Beats headphones? Probably not — The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones. — (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) — Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G LTE — or any of its smartphones for the time being.

More: Engadget, Androsym, PhoneArena, Electronista, Softpedia News, The Verge, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear

J.B. / Fusible.com:

YouTube co-founders are working on a magazine publishing service called Zeen — It looks like you'll soon be able to discover and create “beautiful” magazines online. In the last 24 hours, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who now run AVOS, posted a “Coming Soon” …

More: The Next Web

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges — (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. — Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani …

More: The Verge and VentureBeat

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Rdio is working on Pandora-like radio functionality — Nomen est omen for Rdio, the music subscription service founded by the inventors of Skype: Rdio is going to bring a Pandora-like radio functionality to its service, I was told by Rdio VP of Product Malthe Sigurdsson.

More: Federico Viticci and MacNN

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