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April 14, 2013, 2:45 PM

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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer — I first came across Google's interest in Star Trek back in the summer of 2010. A company spokesman wanted to show me the firm's rapidly improving visual search and speech-recognition technology.

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:

The second coming of Facebook — Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision. Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to work designing a version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone.

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Here's How To Get Facebook Home Running On Nearly Any Android Device — In case you happened to miss the furor earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone), Facebook officially pushed its Facebook Home launcher into the Google Play Store for owners of a select few devices to muck around with.

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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird

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Economist:

Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America — ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley. Bloom makes clean power-generation systems using a novel fuel-cell technology.

Tweets: @edithyeung

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why a Warby Parker flagship retail store is a big moment for online brands (video) — A few years ago when I floated the idea that Amazon would one day experiment with the idea of a retail store in order to project the Amazon experience, it was universally ridiculed.

More: TechCrunch and Warby Parker. Tweets: @cdixon

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for Roosevelt Island, Starts Up in Chelsea — IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University.

More: GeekWire. Tweets: @biz and @jeffjohnroberts

Rima Abdelkader / Rock Center with Brian Williams:

Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’ — Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform. — “I started getting more and more active around immigration reform …

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Proposes Settlement Terms to EU Regulators — In a settlement proposal to European Union antitrust lawyers, Google Inc. for the first time has agreed to submit to a legally binding commitment to make minor changes to the look of its Web-search engine in order to allay concerns …

More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Financial Times and WinBeta. Tweets: @amir_efrati

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption Alone — There's a gold rush going on these days, or a Bitcoin rush, at least. Driven by the recent swings in the value of a Bitcoin, more and more people are learning about and becoming interested in the currency.

More: Forbes, Bloomberg and The Atlantic Online

Jan Chipchase / AllThingsD:

You Lookin' at Me? Reflections on Google Glass. … With the public beta launch of Google Glass, there has been a lot of discussion on why it will or won't fail. The ultimate benchmark for success is high: After someone has tried Glass, can they imagine life without it? — It's the wrong question.

More: Skift. Tweets: @xor and @counternotions

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Designer Nicholas Felton Leaves Facebook After Pioneering Timeline Overhaul — Nicholas Felton, who came to fame through many super-detailed infographics and reports about his life as quantified through data, is leaving Facebook almost two years after being acq-hired to work on projects like Timeline.

More: Facebook, Ubergizmo, MyTechSkool, The Verge, Inside Facebook and AllFacebook. Tweets: @feltron

Terril Yue Jones / Reuters:

U.S., China agree to work together on cyber security — (Reuters) - China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual accusations of hacking and Internet theft.

More: The Next Web, BBC, GlobalPost, The Verge and CNET

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