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April 14, 2013, 11:45 AM

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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

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.

More: The Verge and PhoneArena. Tweets: @jenny8lee

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.

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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

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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Economist:

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.

More: TechCrunch and Warby Parker. Tweets: @cdixon

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.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, MoDaCo Topics, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Tech Shout! and Engadget

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.

More: GeekWire. Tweets: @biz and @jeffjohnroberts

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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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.

More: Facebook, The Verge, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook and bizjournals. Tweets: @feltron

Jan Chipchase / AllThingsD:

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.

More: Skift. Tweets: @xor and @counternotions

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.

More: The Next Web, BBC, GlobalPost, The Verge and CNET

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.

More: Hillicon Valley, The Verge, CNET, Neowin, Techdirt, Mashable, International Business Times, The Next Web and ZDNet

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