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April 7, 2012, 8:55 AM

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Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say — When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future. The video Google released yesterday showed us the point …

More: X-bit labs, Slate, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Los Angeles Times and Digital Trends

John Pavlus / Technology Review:

An Expert's View on Google's Goggles — Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses. — Project Glass, the latest sci-fi concept to come out of Google's X Lab, has gotten a lot of attention online in the past 24 hours thanks …

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Randi Zuckerberg Defends Her Reality Show: Hey Silicon Valley, Stop Being Snobs — Randi Zuckerberg has ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement that she is co-producing “Silicon Valley,” a reality show set to air on Bravo that purports to be all about the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene.

More: Bravo TV Official Site, Betabeat, Randi Zuckerberg's …, PandoDaily, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @brandee

Boonsri Dickinson / Business Insider:

Meet The 7 Stars Of The New Silicon Valley Reality Show — Okay, maybe it is time to start saying we're in another tech bubble. — Bravo announced yesterday a new reality show called “Silicon Valley.” — Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's sister, will be a producer.

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

What's This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java. — When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it's just another day. — That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability …

More: Macworld, Ars Technica, Bits, CNET and The Firewall

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has “No Desire To Litigate” — This particular case, Hard Drive Productions, Inc. -v- Does 1-90, sees the well-known porn company plaintiff follow the now well-trodden copyright troll path. — Gather IP addresses from BitTorrent networks and go to court …

More: Ars Technica, WebProNews and Slashdot

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

YouTube founders working on a service called Zeen, to let you ‘discover & create beautiful magazines’ — Since YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's AVOS company first emerged a year ago when it acquired Delicious from Yahoo, we've heard nothing about anything else it may be working on - until now.

More: Fusible.com

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Next Generation Of E-Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen — Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a surprise when you find …

More: Good E-Reader, The Verge, Computerworld, The TechBlock, MacNN, SlashGear, Geek.com, Liliputing and Business Insider. Thanks:@elinblesener

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase — Office Depot probably isn't the first place you'd think to look for Samsung's incoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), but it looks to be the first legitimate retailer to throw a price tag on the aforementioned slate.

More: Softpedia News, PhoneArena, The Verge and Android Phone Fans

Roger Cheng / CNET:

More HTC handsets with Beats headphones? Probably not — The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones. — (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) — Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G LTE — or any of its smartphones for the time being.

More: Engadget, Softpedia News, Androsym, The Verge, PhoneArena, Electronista, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear

Brian X. Chen / Bits:

Why Is AT&T Releasing Nokia's Big Phone on Easter? — AT&T has said that the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be its biggest product introduction ever. But the phone is coming out on Easter Sunday, when some AT&T stores won't even be open. — Melissa Havel, a spokeswoman representing Microsoft …

More: IntoMobile, All About Windows Phone, The TechBlock, The Verge, New York Times and eWeek. Thanks:@gilbertjasono

Ryan Block / gdgt:

With the Lumia 900, a Windows Phone is finally worthy of gdgt recommendation. Here's why.

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges — (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. — Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani …

More: The Verge and VentureBeat

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8 — AT&T has announced it will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts have expired. The move will free up the currently-locked devices to use a micro-SIM from any carrier offering a network compatible with the device.

More: 9to5Mac, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, Examiner, AllThingsD, The Register, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, TUAW, DailyTech, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, The Verge, AppleInsider, Bits, everythingiCafe, CNET, WebProNews, Macworld and Engadget. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Dave McClure / 500 Startups:

Scaling Venture Capital? We suck. We can do better. — I'm kind of embarrassed to call myself a Venture Capitalist. — In fact, most of us who call ourselves VCs should be too. — Why? Because MOST of us are hypocrites, and have NO idea what we're doing.

More: Business Insider. Thanks:@davemcclure

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Dave McClure is raising a $50 million fund for 500 Startups, 4 new partners are named

More: TechCrunch, CNET, bub.blicio.us, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, silicontap.com, PandoDaily and Social Markets

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