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My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price — This week I gave five speeches while wearing it. I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours). I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass. I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Google Glass Has Already Been Hacked By Jailbreakers — With a name like Glass, it was just asking to be cracked. — Just days after its release to developers, Google 's Glass headset has already been hacked to give users full control of its Android operating system, according to Jay Freeman …
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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
The next Xbox rethinks DRM, Achievements and Xbox Live friends, our sources say — The next Xbox, set to be unveiled during a May 21 event on Microsoft's Redmond-based Xbox campus, will bring with it not just new hardware, but a slew of tweaks to the social aspects of Microsoft's console.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console? — An ‘Xbox 720’ rumor roundup — Microsoft's next-generation console has been the subject of intense rumor and speculation for what feels like years now. Gamers have been pouring over leaks, rumors, accidental Twitter updates, and a whole lot more.
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| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Consumers' shift to older iPhones raises concerns on Wall Street — So many consumers are opting to buy older iPhone models that some analysts wonder whether Apple has lost its ability to create new versions that dazzle. — A customer takes a look at the Apple iPhone 5 at the Apple Store in San Francisco.| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you — Wikidata, a centralized structured data repository for facts and Wikimedia's first big new project in the last 7 years, is now feeding the foundation's main project, Wikipedia. — The Wikidata project …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed — LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyber-attack on its computer systems, which an email — just sent to employees and obtained …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits: |
Researchers Call Out Twitter Celebrities With Suspicious Followings — Security researchers recently shed a bright light on the multimillion-dollar underground market for fake Twitter followers. Now, they are highlighting what they believe to be some of the market's high-profile clientele.
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| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Reeder updated with Feedbin and standalone RSS support — As promised, Reeder is continuing to receive updates to prepare for a post Google Reader world. Today, Reeder 3.1 was released, and with it comes Feebin and standalone RSS support. — Although standalone RSS is nice to have, Feedbin is the big ticket item in this update.| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
Why are liberal US tech entrepreneurs promoting oil drilling in a wildlife refuge? — When the tech sector's leading lights, lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, committed to the immigration reform bill and formed a lobbying coalition called FWD.us to support it, I wondered whether they could sway conservatives.| Shalini Ramachandran / Digits: |
Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont — Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat. — VTel's Chief Executive Michel Guite says he's made it a personal mission to upgrade the company's legacy phone network … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” — SV Angel, one of the Valley's best-known early-stage firms, says it's starting to look heavily at health startups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biology, medical research and patient care.
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