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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.
Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:
Nokia investors tell CEO their patience running thin  —  (Reuters) - Nokia investors told Chief Executive Stephen Elop on Tuesday that they were running out of patience with his flagging attempts to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung in smartphones.
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)
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
White House picks Twitter lawyer as chief privacy officer  —  Nicole Wong, a respected Silicon Valley attorney with over a decade of experience in copyright and privacy law, is joining the Obama administration.  —  President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, currently Twitter's legal director …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
As Windows 8 crosses the 100 million sales mark, Tami Reller breaks down Microsoft's vision for the OS
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 …
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 …
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 …
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
After crowdfunding $10M for a dozen consumer product companies, CircleUp raises its own $7.5M Series A  —  Not all crowdfunding is created equal.  The first generation of this peer-to-peer fundraising concept centered around incentive-based campaigns, where users of platforms like Kickstarter …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format  —  Users forced to pay or register before downloading  —  DJ Kaskade.  —  Kazaa.  Limewire.  Napster.  There are hardly any widely used filesharing sites that didn't try to “go legit” at some point after being dinged for facilitating piracy.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Nest acquires MyEnergy (formerly Earth Aid), moves deeper into utility data  —  Smart thermostat maker Nest has acquired energy data startup MyEnergy, formerly called Earth Aid.  Nest didn't disclose terms of the deal, but said in a release on Tuesday that the acquisition would help Nest further …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Social Startup Viddy Recapitalizes, Shuffles Board  —  Viddy, the social video app for mobile devices, is overhauling its capitalization table, returning a large amount of money to investors in the company's most recent round of funding.  —  Viddy will return $18 million of the $30 million raised …

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

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