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Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer — I first came across Google's interest in Star Trek back in the summer of 2010. A company spokesman wanted to show me the firm's rapidly improving visual search and speech-recognition technology.| Jessi Hempel / Fortune: |
The second coming of Facebook — Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision. Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to work designing a version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone.Thanks:@eghosao
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Here's How To Get Facebook Home Running On Nearly Any Android Device — In case you happened to miss the furor earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone), Facebook officially pushed its Facebook Home launcher into the Google Play Store for owners of a select few devices to muck around with.
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Facebook's Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird — During the Facebook Home launch event, Zuck premiered the company's first commercial for the product. — Complete with half-naked dudes stuffed into luggage compartments, surprise drag queens, and an unintentionally spooky child, it was... pretty bad.
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Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America — ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley. Bloom makes clean power-generation systems using a novel fuel-cell technology.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why a Warby Parker flagship retail store is a big moment for online brands (video) — A few years ago when I floated the idea that Amazon would one day experiment with the idea of a retail store in order to project the Amazon experience, it was universally ridiculed.| Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times: |
Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for Roosevelt Island, Starts Up in Chelsea — IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University.| Rima Abdelkader / Rock Center with Brian Williams: |
Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’ — Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform. — “I started getting more and more active around immigration reform …
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You Lookin' at Me? Reflections on Google Glass. … With the public beta launch of Google Glass, there has been a lot of discussion on why it will or won't fail. The ultimate benchmark for success is high: After someone has tried Glass, can they imagine life without it? — It's the wrong question.| Terril Yue Jones / Reuters: |
U.S., China agree to work together on cyber security — (Reuters) - China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual accusations of hacking and Internet theft.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Designer Nicholas Felton Leaves Facebook After Pioneering Timeline Overhaul — Nicholas Felton, who came to fame through many super-detailed infographics and reports about his life as quantified through data, is leaving Facebook almost two years after being acq-hired to work on projects like Timeline.| Kevin Collier / Daily Dot: |
Google, Yahoo executives back CISPA through lobbying group — The battle raging around the Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA) just got a little dirtier. — A lobbying group that counts top executives at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as board members has officially thrown its support behind the controversial bill.Sponsor Posts
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