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May 5, 2013, 9:00 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: Mediaite, CNET, AllThingsD, Mashable, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Business Insider and Business Insider. Tweets: @jeffjarvis

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: ParisLemon and Boing Boing

James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:

The Weekend Interview With Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke — The chief scientist for the digital currency talks about its appeal—and pitfalls—in a world of fiat money. — Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?

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

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: Computerworld, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Crave, ZDNet, ZDNet, The Verge, WinBeta, ABCNEWS, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and IntoMobile

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: @jessicalessin and @enstitute

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

In 2013, the keys to Android are still held by the carriers — This year's flagships, the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4, are locked down — Just under two years ago, HTC's CEO responded to public pressure by making an equally public promise: “We will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices.”

Tweets: @holyoaked, @backlon and @caseynewton

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

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here's the story of how it changed the way we work — Today marks a historic moment for one of Silicon Valley's biggest and well-known companies. It has been a decade since LinkedIn was founded as a business-related social network and now it has grown …

More: The Next Web, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Thanks:@martinsfp

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, InfoWorld, Electronista 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 …

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: Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Hillicon Valley, AllThingsD, Digits, IntoMobile, BGR, AppleInsider and ZDNet

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