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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, a low-end 7-inch tablet that makes calls  —  Today, Samsung is announcing a new 7-inch tablet called the Galaxy Tab 3, but to our eyes, it doesn't look much different from the current 7-inch Tab 2.  It swaps the previous Tab's 1 GHz dual-core processor for a 1.2GHz chip …
Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:
Undercover Police Stings Target Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a cloudy afternoon in the Tenderloin district, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks slowly along Market Street, stopping to engage people he encounters along the way.  He offers a peek at the wares inside …
More: MacRumors, Neowin, Gizmodo and CNET.  Tweets: @lessien
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream  —  Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word.  Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off.
David Meyer / GigaOM:
Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers?  —  There's a reason why mobile carriers are scared of third-party messaging apps such as WhatsApp, and here it is: people are now sending more messages over these services than they are text messages.
Myles Recny:
Twitter Should Shut Me Down.  —  In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City.  I was 24.  I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology.  Two weeks in, one of my professors assigned a homework project that would rapidly turn into a profitable business.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers  —  WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming.
More: TechEye.  Tweets: @eric_andersen
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Updates Its Register iPad App With Kitchen Tickets, Ordering Features To Better Serve Restaurants  —  Square's point-of-sale technology and iPad-powered register, Square Register is getting a big update today targeted at better serving restaurants.  New features in the release include …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Tumblr Play: The secret microblog version of Twitter #Music that never was  —  Last week, Twitter launched its new social music discovery app #Music.  A lot of us thought that this was a long time coming, as musicians are a big component of Twitter's celebrity users, and many of them follow other musicians …
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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