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May 5, 2013, 4:05 PM

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google Glass' awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’ — Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mediaite, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Mashable and 9to5Google. Tweets: @jeffjarvis

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass — The elite of the tech world have decided that Google Glass is the future. — And perhaps they're right, but, Google Glass is clearly not the present. It's not even the near-future, if the early reviews that are rolling in turn out to be accurate.

More: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Cyborgology, ZDNet, ABCNEWS, Patently Apple, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, Engadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, Fortune, SeekingAlpha.com and ABCNEWS. Tweets: @stevekovach

TechCrunch:

Facebook Blocks Path's “Find Friends” Access Following Spam Controversy — Facebook's social graph went missing from yesterday's update to Path's smartphone app, and Facebook now confirms it has restricted Path's API access. Path can no longer look up your Facebook friends …

More: TechHive, The Verge, App Advice and Mashable

Tweets: @qthrul and @counternotions

Hannah Seligson / New York Times:

Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite — JASMINE GAO, who is 19, just wasn't the classroom type. So instead of languishing in college, she dropped out after her freshman year. — Ms. Gao decided that she didn't want to continue studying at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York.

Tweets: @enstitute

Dan Kaminsky / Wired:

What's Important, What's Untrue: A Hacker-Entrepreneur Cuts Through the Bitcoin Hype — Bitcoin. Everybody's talking about it. What's true, and what's hype? Perhaps the only thing that's clear about Bitcoin is that it's not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say?

More: Wall Street Journal and Boing Boing

Brad Chacos / PC World:

Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet — The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves. — While Acer was busy showing off a smattering …

More: ZDNet, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Crave, The Verge, WinBeta, ABCNEWS, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and IntoMobile

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison — The knock at the door came at 7:03 a.m. — Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sitting on his sofa. He didn't immediately answer the door.

More: The Verge, TechSpot and Marketing Land

Agam Shah / CITEworld:

Acer: There's “no value” in making a Windows RT tablet today — Acer is waiting for the next version of Windows RT, due in the second half of this year, before deciding whether to release a tablet that runs on that OS. — “The plan for an RT tablet is ongoing,” said Acer President Jim Wong …

More: Neowin, Daring Fireball, The Verge, SuperSite for Windows, Electronista, InfoWorld and Computerworld. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Facebook Racks Up Record Games Revenue, Even as Zynga Presence Wanes — Recent changes to Facebook's relationship with Zynga may have hurt the social gaming company's revenue, but that doesn't seem to have put the hurt on Facebook's payments biz. Indeed, posting first quarter earnings Wednesday …

Debian:

Debian 7.0 Wheezy released — After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0 (code name Wheezy). — This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch support, several specific tools to deploy private clouds …

More: ZDNet, Liliputing, Softpedia News, The H Open Source, Ruchirablog and Engadget

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Pentagon says DoD can start using Knox-enabled Samsung Galaxy S4 — Samsung's Knox security software gained a little bit more legitimacy today when the Department of Defense approved Samsung Galaxy S4′s running the protections for use in the government.

More: Hillicon Valley, AllThingsD, Digits, IntoMobile, BGR, Android Beat, AppleInsider and ZDNet

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

New Galaxy S4 ad trashes Apple: iPhone is so old — Having gotten over its tame international launch of the S4, Samsung's American arm resumes its denigration of Apple, suggesting only old folks own an iPhone. — Oh, Dad. You're so dumb. — You thought it might be all over?

More: App Advice, Business Insider, Android Beat, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Softpedia News

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