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April 28, 2013, 9:15 AM

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Robert Scoble / Google+:

My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price — This week I gave five speeches while wearing it. I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours). I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass. I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.

More: The Next Web, Forbes, Engadget, Stealthmode Blog, LivingThruGlass.com, Selfscreens, PC Magazine, Washington Post and Business Insider

Tweets: @scobleizer, @ryan and @geoff161

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Google Glass Has Already Been Hacked By Jailbreakers

More: Dan Morrill, Memex 1.1, Stephen Lau, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Selfscreens, Electronista, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Engadget, Gizmodo, VR-Zone, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Ars Technica and Xconomy. Tweets: @saurik

Brian Crecente / Polygon:

The next Xbox rethinks DRM, Achievements and Xbox Live friends, our sources say — The next Xbox, set to be unveiled during a May 21 event on Microsoft's Redmond-based Xbox campus, will bring with it not just new hardware, but a slew of tweaks to the social aspects of Microsoft's console.

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, Neowin, Yahoo! News, VG247, GamingBolt.com, destructoid, Gematsu, The Verge and Kotaku

Tom Warren / The Verge:

The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console?

More: nbcnews.com

Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:

Researchers Call Out Twitter Celebrities With Suspicious Followings — Security researchers recently shed a bright light on the multimillion-dollar underground market for fake Twitter followers. Now, they are highlighting what they believe to be some of the market's high-profile clientele.

More: Forbes, The Verge, Marketing Land and memeburn

Jason Palmer / BBC:

Google searches predict market moves — Stock averages slumped when Google searches of financially relevant terms rose — The volume of Google searches for finance-related terms may predict moves in markets, research suggests. — As the search volume on generic terms such as “debt” …

More: Beyond Search, NYT Bits, Nature, Surprising Science and Forbes

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Consumers' shift to older iPhones raises concerns on Wall Street — So many consumers are opting to buy older iPhone models that some analysts wonder whether Apple has lost its ability to create new versions that dazzle. — A customer takes a look at the Apple iPhone 5 at the Apple Store in San Francisco.

More: AppleInsider. Tweets: @lessien. Thanks:@obrien

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you — Wikidata, a centralized structured data repository for facts and Wikimedia's first big new project in the last 7 years, is now feeding the foundation's main project, Wikipedia. — The Wikidata project …

More: Guardian and gHacks Technology News

AppleInsider:

iPad takes top J.D. Power honors for the second time in a row — J.D. Power and Associates released its most recent study on customer satisfaction in the tablet segment this week, with Apple's iPad taking the top prize for the second consecutive time. — Volume 1 of the the J.D. Power …

More: PhoneArena, Electronista and The Register

Ian Steadman / Wired.co.uk:

Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing … A study of the Bitcoin exchange industry has found that 45 percent of exchanges fail, taking their users' money with them. Those that survive are the ones that handle the most traffic — but they are also the exchanges that suffer the greatest number of cyber attacks.

More: American Banker and BGR

Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com:

Reeder updated with Feedbin and standalone RSS support — As promised, Reeder is continuing to receive updates to prepare for a post Google Reader world. Today, Reeder 3.1 was released, and with it comes Feebin and standalone RSS support. — Although standalone RSS is nice to have, Feedbin is the big ticket item in this update.

More: App Advice, MobileSyrup.com, TodaysiPhone.com, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News and MacStories

Tim Fernholz / Quartz:

Why are liberal US tech entrepreneurs promoting oil drilling in a wildlife refuge? — When the tech sector's leading lights, lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, committed to the immigration reform bill and formed a lobbying coalition called FWD.us to support it, I wondered whether they could sway conservatives.

More: POLITICO, ThinkProgress, Business Insider, msnbc.com, TechPresident, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, The Daily Caller, Hillicon Valley and Neowin

Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:

Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont — Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat. — VTel's Chief Executive Michel Guite says he's made it a personal mission to upgrade the company's legacy phone network …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Computerworld, Technabob, SlashGear, GigaOM, WebProNews and VentureBeat. Tweets: @qthrul

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