Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass  —  Lambda Labs, an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps.  The API will be available to interested developers within a week, company co-founder Stephen Balaban says.

The Xbox One can talk to you, will feature remote play  —  Microsoft's day-long media outing for the Xbox One this week was only the first of a two-stage unveiling for the new console, and the E3 event won't be just about games.  —  Among the features not yet shown off for the console …

Facebook looking to relocate in NYC, sources say  —  The social networking giant is negotiating to take 160,000 square feet at 770 Broadway in midtown south at a time when other tech firms are migrating downtown because rents have been rising in the tech-heavy neighborhood.

On market share  —  For the last couple of years, the standard way to look at the progress of the ‘platform war’ between Apple, Google and the now near-vanquished Nokia and RIM was ‘smartphone market share’: each platform's share of the share of the phone units sold each quarter that could be defined as ‘smart’.

Mr. China Goes To San Francisco  —  A block from the Mariposa on-ramp and in the eye-line of 90,000 cars whizzing by on 280 sits an old warehouse that was home to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt weekly, and Digg.  Most of the building is gutted, and inside they are working on the …

Do these screenshots reveal a heavily revamped Gmail for mobile and Web is on the way?  —  Gmail users could be seeing the service getting a redesign soon.  Following reports by Android Police about leaked screenshots of the update during Google I/O, we're also hearing that the email service …

Source confirms Intel's big score: Samsung tablet using an Atom chip  —  Intel's long years investing in mobile processors are about to pay off with its biggest win to date.  We've confirmed that the next Samsung Galaxy tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, will have an Intel Atom chip based on the Clover Trail code name.

More than a year after its shutdown, Google to move all Buzz posts to its Drive service on July 17  —  Google is taking the “last step” in its shutdown of its Google Buzz product.  Starting July 17, the company announced in an email that all posts will be saved to Google Drive.

Yahoo Deal for Tumblr Won't Move Internet Giant's Needle  —  When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up.”  Maybe the young chief should have instead emphasized …

Yahoo's Design Chief to Depart  —  Tim Parsey, the senior vice president of user experience design at Yahoo, is leaving the company, he said in an interview Thursday.  —  Mr. Parsey said he was hired last year to help infuse a culture of design at the company.

Laurene Powell Jobs and Anonymous Giving in Silicon Valley  —  In Silicon Valley, people get very rich, very fast, often when they are very young.  As a result, they are often criticized for not giving away enough of that money.  —  There are signs that is changing, as people like Mark Zuckerberg become more philanthropic.