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April 29, 2013, 4:23 AM

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google is retiring its Meebo Bar publishing tool on June 6 to focus on Google+ and Google+ Sign-In — Google has announced that it will be retiring its Meebo Bar publishing tool on June 6 in order to divert more resources towards its Google+ Sign-In service and other plug-ins for its social network.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, PC World, Google Plus Daily and Engadget

Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:

Undercover Police Stings Target Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market — SAN FRANCISCO — On a cloudy afternoon in the Tenderloin district, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks slowly along Market Street, stopping to engage people he encounters along the way. He offers a peek at the wares inside …

More: MacRumors, Gizmodo and CNET. Tweets: @lessien

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream — Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off.

Tweets: @suzannespecnyt and @liberationtech

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: PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Ars Technica and Neowin

Tom Warren / The Verge:

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

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Joe Pollicino / Engadget:

Google releases Glass kernel GPL source, lets developers have at it — While our own Tim Stevens is currently adapting to life through Google Glass, developers are going beyond scratching the surface to fiddle with what's inside. Hot on the heels of Jay Freeman rooting Glass …

More: CNET, Karthik.K's Geek Center!, Ubergizmo, ParityNews.com, The Droid Guy, The Droid Guy, Android Authority, Electronista and PhoneArena

Robert Scoble / Google+:

My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

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Myles Recny:

Twitter Should Shut Me Down. — In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City. I was 24. I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology. Two weeks in, one of my professors assigned a homework project that would rapidly turn into a profitable business.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Bing, Skype, and Xbox rebranding revealed in Microsoft design presentation — At a recent design day event in Norway, Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum and Todd Simmons, creative director at Wolff Olins, held a talk about “re-imagining” Microsoft.

More: VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Droid Guy, Engadget, Pocketables, T3 News, Neowin, counternotions and LiveSide.net. Tweets: @mattweihl. Thanks:@simongates6

Matt Richtel / New York Times:

How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers — WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming.

Tweets: @eric_andersen

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Party Enters Iceland's National Parliament After Historic Election Win — Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. — Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament.

More: Falkvinge on Infopolicy, Ars Technica, BBC, News of Iceland, Associated Press and Wall Street Journal

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Intel confirms ‘Haswell’ chip intro at Computex — The countdown to the chipmaker's next-generation mainstream processor has begun. — It's official. Intel's fourth-generation core “Haswell” processor will arrive on June 3. Expect a crush of desktops, laptops, convertibles, detachables, and tablets to ensue.

More: Intel Newsroom, eWeek, The Droid Guy, PhoneArena, SlashGear, VR-Zone and Neowin

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Tumblr Play: The secret microblog version of Twitter #Music that never was — Last week, Twitter launched its new social music discovery app #Music. A lot of us thought that this was a long time coming, as musicians are a big component of Twitter's celebrity users, and many of them follow other musicians …

More: Jeff Rock, App Advice and The Verge

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 …

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