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May 4, 2013, 8:45 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Blocks Path's “Find Friends” Access Following Spam Controversy — Facebook's social graph went missing from yesterday's update to Path's smartphone app, and Facebook now confirms it has restricted Path's API access. Path can no longer look up your Facebook friends …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @qthrul and @counternotions

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

New Galaxy S4 ad trashes Apple: iPhone is so old — Having gotten over its tame international launch of the S4, Samsung's American arm resumes its denigration of Apple, suggesting only old folks own an iPhone. — Oh, Dad. You're so dumb. — You thought it might be all over?

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun — Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world's first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group Defense Distributed …

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass — The elite of the tech world have decided that Google Glass is the future. — And perhaps they're right, but, Google Glass is clearly not the present. It's not even the near-future, if the early reviews that are rolling in turn out to be accurate.

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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison — The knock at the door came at 7:03 a.m. — Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sitting on his sofa. He didn't immediately answer the door.

More: Marketing Land

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

Finally, some good news for LightSquared — The FCC has given LightSquared the go-ahead to test a spectrum-sharing plan with a government agency as the company continues to fight to build its nationwide wireless broadband network. — Things might finally be looking up for LightSquared …

More: Wireless Week

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

Amazon Appstore Opens in China, Leaps Final Hurdle Before Kindle Fire Launch — In a surprise move, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has opened its Android-oriented Appstore in China today. That's despite the fact that China wasn't listed on Amazon's Appstore expansion roadmap last month …

Thanks:@sirsteven

Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:

Bombing Pressures Technology Providers to Aid Police — Google Inc. (GOOG), Twitter Inc. and even Silicon Valley startups are confronting calls by law enforcement following the Boston Marathon bombings to make their products more easily used for surveillance.

Tweets: @jaredbkeller

Luke Westaway / Crave:

Samsung defends 16GB S4's mere 8GB of usable storage … Samsung's Galaxy S4 has drawn criticism as phone fans discover the 16GB version of the 5-inch smart phone actually only has around 8GB of useful memory. Samsung has defended its flagship blower, saying you're getting more features and a higher-res display in return.

More: PC Magazine, AppleInsider, Phones Review, The Verge, Android Community, Business Insider, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and Android Beat

RT:

‘Palestine’ tagline appears on Google to Israel's disapproval — Google has changed the tagline on its Palestinian edition from ‘Palestinian territories’ to ‘Palestine,’ thereby acknowledging the UN's decision to award the region non-member observer status. Israel has already expressed displeasure with the move.

More: BBC, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, The Verge, Telegraph, Washington Times, Khaleej Times, Digital Journal, New York Times, Guardian, The Register and TechPresident

Guardian:

Tech City - believe the hype? — Technology clusters in areas such as Cambridge, Newcastle and Brighton may have a better case for getting exposure - and cash — Since the Coalition came to power in May 2010, the Tech City initiative has had significant money, PR and industry support thrown behind it.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Fullscreen BEAM: The first YouTube app for Google Glass comes with public or private sharing — I picked up my Google Glass this week, and one of my first instincts was to share one of the cool POV videos out to YouTube and blast a tweet to my followers. I'm not always the most ‘on it’ when it comes …

More: Fullscreen, ReadWrite, iPhone Hacks, VatorNews, T3 News, Forbes, Engadget, Mashable, Selfscreens, Pocket-lint, AllThingsD and 9to5Mac

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