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May 6, 2013, 10:20 AM

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun  —  “Alright.  One...two...”  —  Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape.  A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …
Steven Musil / CNET:
YouTube reportedly near launch of paid channel subscriptions  —  Video-sharing site could launch a paid content platform for some of its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to The Financial Times.  —  YouTube reportedly could launch its paid subscription service …
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Google Glass' awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be.
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC  —  When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business.  It was a fun period for me because everything was new and I was curious.  — What kind of deals should I be doing?  — What stage?  What price?
Brad Chacos / PC World:
Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet  —  The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves.  —  While Acer was busy showing off a smattering …
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Where Mail With Illegible Addresses Goes to Be Read  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Inside a plain warehouselike office building filled with rows of cubicles, Melissa Stark stares at the image of an envelope on a computer screen.  The handwriting is barely legible and appears to be addressed to someone in the “cty of Jesey.”
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here's the story of how it changed the way we work  —  Today marks a historic moment for one of Silicon Valley's biggest and well-known companies.  It has been a decade since LinkedIn was founded as a business-related social network and now it has grown …
The Japan Times:
Nintendo taps smartphone apps for console boost  —  OSAKA - Nintendo Co. is trying to modify its game consoles so customers can use smartphone applications on them as it searches for a way to return to profitability, company sources said.  —  The game console and software maker …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
HP redesigns its ProBook laptops for small businesses, prices start at $499  —  Last fall, HP took a small step toward refreshing its ProBook business notebooks when it started offering some of them with AMD Trinity chips.  Eight months later, it's time for a real makeover …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
The Weekend Interview With Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke  —  The chief scientist for the digital currency talks about its appeal—and pitfalls—in a world of fiat money.  —  Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?

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