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April 25, 2013, 5:15 PM

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Ben Sandofsky / Twitter Blog:
New improvements to Twitter for Mac  —  Today we're announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It's easier than ever to share photos.  Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose box, and choose a photo to share.  If you prefer, you can still drag and drop photos from the desktop.
EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns  —  The European Commission invites comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Google in relation to online search and search advertising.  The Commission has concerns …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes  —  After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes.  —  WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain  —  It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain.  —  Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.
More: Geek.com and Quartz
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nokia Plans May 14 London Event to Talk About Its Next Windows Phones  —  Nokia is planning to hold a May 14 press conference in London to talk about where it is headed with its Lumia line of Windows Phones.  —  An invitation to journalists on Thursday offered few details.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It's About Time  —  Twitter may be the best way to figure out what's happening around the world right now.  But it sure ain't great at telling me what's going on in my world — that is, what's happening down the block from me.  —  That may change.
More: The Verge and EngadgetTweets: @panzer
Steven Levy / Wired:
How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain  —  Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year.
More: Betabeat and Forbes
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months  —  Google has published its latest Transparency Report and the results are not encouraging for free speech advocates: governments around the world are asking it to remove more content than ever before.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
3D Leap Motion Controller device shipping date delayed 2 months until July 22nd  —  Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald today announced on a conference call that the shipping of the company's 3D Motion Controller would be delayed until July 22nd.  The reasons behind it, Buckwald says, were about ‘living up to expectations’.
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Wi-Fi, Voice Calling Come to More New York City Subway Stations  —  Busy New Yorkers are about to get even more distracted.  —  Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the body for New York City's arteries of public transit, had completed the first phase …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
CISPA ‘dead’ in Senate, privacy concerns cited  —  Summary: The chairman of a key Senate committee cited “insufficient” privacy protections in the cybersecurity bill, recently passed by the House.  —  Zack Whittaker  —  The Senate will almost certainly kill a controversial cybersecurity bill …
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Actian buys Amazon database partner ParAccel  —  Database vendor Actian has acquired ParAccel, a scale-out, analytic database company whose technology underpins part of the Amazon Web Services Redshift data warehouse service.  Terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
LG promises smartphone with flexible OLED display this year  —  In a call discussing the company's recent financial results, LG announced it will introduce a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter of this year.  The company's vice president of mobile Yoon Bu-hyun …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant, With Google, Yahoo, Evernote & Outlook Apps Integration  —  Make way for another major update to the LinkedIn platform: today the company is relaunching its Contacts section as a smart contact management system that will let users link …
Steve Lohr / NYT Bits:
A Messenger for the Internet of Things  —  The vision of the Internet of Things is inspiring, if much-hyped.  Billions of digital devices, from smartphones to sensors in homes, cars and machines of all kinds, will communicate with each other to automate tasks and make life better.
More: ZDNet

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