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May 7, 2013, 2:00 PM

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James Trew / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 928 officially confirmed: PureView, OIS and Carl Zeiss camera goodies  —  So, print is the new digital.  At least when it comes to Verizon's imminent — and now surely fully acknowledged — Lumia 928.  The billboard spotted over the weekend enthused about the camera, but told us little else.
Alan Ohnsman / Bloomberg:
Tesla CEO Talking With Google About ‘Autopilot’ Systems  —  Elon Musk, the California billionaire who leads Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) (TSLA), said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG)
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Viber hits 200m users, rivals Skype with video calling in new Mac and Windows desktop apps  —  When Viber first launched its free voice calling app for iPhone back in December 2010, I called it a rival to Skype's iOS app.  —  Today, we can really start referring to Viber as an overall …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Microsoft extends Yahoo's U.S. search revenue guarantee  —  Microsoft Corp extended the revenue guarantee it provides to Yahoo Inc in the companies' underperforming search partnership, Yahoo said on Tuesday.  —  The U.S. revenue-per-search guarantee, which had expired on March 31 …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal: Keep Out  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google's wearable computer, the most anticipated piece of electronic wizardry since the iPad and iPhone, will not go on sale for many months.  —  But the resistance is already under way.  —  The glasseslike device …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Microsoft Confirms Windows Blue Update Coming; Says Windows 8 Passes 100 Million Licenses Sold  —  After months of rumors, Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it is readying an update to Windows 8 for later this year.  —  Code-named Windows Blue, the update will enable Windows to run …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:
John Doerr's Plan To Reclaim The Venture Capital Throne  —  Flipboard recently unveiled a new version of its successful tab­let magazine app as the entire staff stood around their Palo Alto, Calif. office gawking at the traffic numbers.  As the needle starts moving, the room gets giddy …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Urban Compass Comes Out Of Stealth With A Hyperlocal Social Network, And A Disruptive Rental Portal That Will Serve As A Magnet  —  Urban Compass, a New York-based startup that last year raised an $8 million seed round while still in stealth mode, is coming out of the shadows and debuting …
More: The Verge
The Physics arXiv Blog:
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years  —  A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers  —  One of the dreams for security experts is the creation …
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Google's Eric Schmidt On Data Privacy: The Internet Needs A Delete Button  —  With so much data being collected about us online, can our offline identities ever be divorced from our web personas?  Today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt offered a simple solution for kids being brought …
Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:
Introducing the YouTube Trends Map  —  Are teens in the South watching the same videos as middle-aged folks in New England?  Now with the YouTube Trends Map (YouTube.com/TrendsMap), you can see today's most popular videos in major markets across the U.S. You can also see what's popular with women or men …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
RunKeeper For Pebble Arrives, Bringing Run, Walk And Bike Ride Progress Tracking To The Smart Watch  —  So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks the much-anticipated debut of early marquee partner RunKeeper.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Drive desktop app now lets you share files from PC and Mac  —  Sharing is getting a bit easier on Google Drive today.  Google has just announced that users on a PC or Mac can now share files simply by right clicking and choosing “share” from a Google Drive submenu.
Michael Fitzpatrick / Fortune:
How the iPhone conquered Japan  —  Despite its more-or-less mundane technology, Apple's device won over women.  —  FORTUNE — The Japanese were using their cellphones to watch TV, navigate with GPS, download music, make movies, pay bills, and check their emails years before American consumers were doing the same.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
YouTube for Windows Phone 8 ‘completely redesigned’ with pinning, playlist, child safety features, and more  —  Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has revamped YouTube for Windows Phone 8.  You can get the latest version of the app now directly from the Windows Phone store.
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