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June 1, 2012, 4:20 AM

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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview  —  Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages.  This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more) …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support (hands-on)  —  Two months after unleashing Windows 8 upon the world, Microsoft's back with the latest step toward the release of the company's next operating system: the Windows 8 Release Preview.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Sees Future in Windows 8 Fueled by $58 Billion App Market: Tech  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is so eager to have a panoply of applications for the next version of its Windows operating system that it has lined up design firms, recruited interns and sent engineers on an around …
Vygantas / Web Browser:
Facebook Drops Google Chrome Recommendation, Replaces It With Opera  —  More fuel to the rumor's fire.  —  It looks like Facebook management decided not to bother with the Google Chrome anymore as their latest “unsupported web browsers” page has since then removed the search giant's web browser.
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Judge: Oracle Java API elements not covered by copyright law, related claims against Google dismissed  —  Things weren't looking good for Oracle after the jury found that Google hadn't infringed upon the company's patents in the second phase of the trial, but the issue of infringement of the structure …
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
New Netflix iOS app capitulates to bandwidth caps  —  Carriers like Verizon and AT&T are trying to convince Netflix to pay for the bandwidth its subscribers consume on their networks.  Today Netflix delivered a rather oblique response.  It's giving its iPhone customers the option …
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
The Rumored iPhone 5′s Four Inch Front Panel Can Nearly Swallow An Old iPhone Whole  —  Another day, another iPhone 5 leak.  This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone.  This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant.  —  He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook …
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube  —  Web Giant Spends Millions in Aim to Aquire .Google, .Docs and Many Others  —  Last month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree.  Today, the company announced in a blog post …
Rob Walker / New York Times:
How Kinect Spawned a Commercial Ecosystem  —  When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers.  A slim, black, oblong 11½-inch wedge perched on a base …
More: The Verge and TechFlash
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar  —  Google is putting a lot of effort into making its Google+ social network thing more robust to turn it into a viable competitor to market leader Facebook.  One major feature Google+ was missing so far …
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Kickstarter Responds To Hidden “Failed Project” Claims  —  Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, dropped us a line about the systems in place to “hide” failed projects.  He told us that Kickstarter does indeed hide many projects from search robots, but it's for a good cause.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees  —  Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google's bot-detection system with 99% accuracy.  —  The background noise added to the audio version of Google's reCAPTCHA didn't include high frequencies, making it easy for histograms …
More: Gizmodo
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule”  —  If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you're in luck.  Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline.

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