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May 23, 2014, 7:10 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Google's Project Tango developing 7-inch tablet that can capture 3D images of objects — Google Developing Tablet With Advanced Vision Capabilities — Tech Company Plans To Produce About 4,000 Prototype Tablets Beginning Next Month — Google Inc. is developing a new …

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Samsung is making a VR headset for its phones and tablets — Samsung is known for its ubiquitous Galaxy smartphones and tablets, popular smart televisions and, most recently, smart watches. The Korean consumer electronics giant is about to enter another major new category: virtual reality headsets.

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. — b) Sisyphus. Condemned to rolling a huge boulder up a hill, and then watching it roll back down again, over and over forever.

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Nick Summers / Businessweek:

How IBM is struggling as a late entrant to the cloud era and is unlikely to deliver high margins — The Trouble With IBM — In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA. The spy agency was collecting so much information, its computers couldn't keep up.

More: Gigaom and Business Insider. Tweets: @davegirouard, @mims, @nytimesbits and @mattlynley

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

HP Shares Fall on Light Results; Plans to Cut up to 16,000 More Jobs — Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported results for its second fiscal quarter about 20 minutes earlier than scheduled, and the press release appears to be incomplete. They're more or less in line with the consensus …

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Facebook exec posts “rant” about news media's focus on the trivial, but doesn't acknowledge Facebook's contribution to the problem — Facebook product director furious at Facebook's effect on news — Mike Hudack — who, importantly, is Director of Product at Facebook …

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Wall Street Journal:

Uber close to raising a new round of nearly $500M, valuing the company at over $12B — Uber Inc. Talking With Several Fund Managers to Raise About $500 Million — Drivers-for-Hire App Firm Seeking Investment Which Could Value Company at Over $12 Billion

More: Forbes and Mashable. Tweets: @wsjd, @jmcduling and @evelynrusli

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

California's AG publishes privacy guidelines, urges websites to disclose “do not track” compliance — California Urges Websites to Disclose Online Tracking — Every major Internet browser has a feature that lets you tell a website that you don't want it to collect personal information about you when you visit.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, MediaPost, AdAge, Mercury News, Slate, SC Magazine, The Verge, Forbes and California Attorney …. Tweets: @amuratsuchi

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Google is working with Ruckus Wireless to build a Wi-Fi network in the cloud — Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless to build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source familiar with the project who asked not to be named.

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Techie News, ZDNet and bizjournals. Thanks:@kfitchard

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

One-time Evernote rival Springpad to close its doors — Springpad, a productivity app that struggled to stand out from similar offerings from Evernote and Pinterest, is planning to close its doors, The Verge has learned. The six-year-old Boston company, which raised more than $7 million …

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

DoorDash Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand Its On-Demand Delivery Service — DoorDash is one of many on-demand food-delivery startups to crop up over the past few years, but the company has big ambitions to move beyond food. Thanks to new investor Sequoia Capital, it has a sizable war chest to go after the competition.

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Microsoft wins right to disclose FBI's demand for info about Office 365 customer — In a significant victory for transparency and free speech, a federal judge in Seattle granted Microsoft permission to unseal documents related to an FBI investigation into one of its cloud customers.

More: TechNet Blogs, Ars Technica, The Verge, Techdirt, Softpedia News, Engadget, Neowin, WinBeta, SlashGear, Computerworld, The Register, Ubergizmo, CNET News, ZDNet and TechCrunch. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts

Luther Turmelle / The New Haven Register:

15 Connecticut cab companies sue to block Uber, Lyft — A coalition of 15 Connecticut cab and livery companies filed suit in federal court Wednesday to block ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft from doing business in the state. — The cab and livery companies, represented …

More: SlashGear, WNPR News, Hartford Courant, Bloomberg and VentureBeat

Dara Kerr / CNET News:

Canalys: Fitbit accounts for nearly 50% of 2.7M wearable bands shipped worldwide Q1 2014 — Fitbit rules 50 percent of the world's wearable market — The recent recall of the Fitbit Force over skin irritations appears to have no bearing on the wearable's sales momentum. — Fitbit Force.

More: Canalys Newsroom, PC Magazine, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Wearable World News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users' Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends” — After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”.

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