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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Samsung is working with Oculus on a screenless VR headset that uses a smartphone as a display, won't focus solely on gaming — Samsung is working with Oculus on a media-focused VR headset — Last week we told you about Samsung's unannounced virtual reality headset: a peripheral …

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

Google's “Right To Be Forgotten” form receives over 12K submissions on its first day — Google in quandary over how to uphold EU privacy ruling — (Reuters) - Google and other internet companies find themselves in a quandary over how to strike a balance between privacy …

More: Marketing Land, BGR, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Reuters and WebProNews. Tweets: @lexnfx

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

How Google's New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer — Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union's new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing …

More: The Next Web, Financial Times, New York Times, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, TechSpot, WebProNews and Electronista

Tweets: @aleyda, @dannysullivan, @justinbrookman, @tomstandage, @sengineland and @privacymatters

Thanks:@dannysullivan

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google has established a “right to be forgotten” form following EU ruling

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Powered by Pano, focused on gaming: Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June — Google is about to open up another front in the war for your living room: The company is set to announce the launch of Android TV at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco in June …

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, BGR, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Phandroid and SlashGear. Tweets: @jank0

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple's Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue Explain the Beats Deal and Hint at the Future (Video) — A few hours after announcing their $3 billion deal, Apple SVP Eddy Cue and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine came to the Code Conference to talk about what brought them together, and what they want to do next.

More: 9to5Mac, iMore, Cult of Mac, App Advice and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @roddrury, @waltmossberg, @johnpaczkowski and @macrumors

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Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

Original Samsung Galaxy Gear (SM-V700) now being updated to Tizen — The time has come for owners of the original Galaxy Gear to say goodbye to Android and welcome Tizen onto their smartwatch. Samsung has begun rolling out an update to the Galaxy Gear that will bring over Tizen, the company's in-house OS, to the smartwatch.

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

FCC to consider changing the definition of “broadband” to 25Mbps, up from the current 4Mbps — The FCC may consider a stricter definition of broadband in the Netflix age — What is high-speed Internet? Believe it or not, there is a technical definition. Currently, it's set at 4 megabits per second.

More: VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Mashable and SlashGear

Tweets: @nickjrusso, @videograndpa, @akamai_soti and @qthrul

Grant Gross / PC World:

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Congressman Bob Latta …, TechCrunch, dailywireless.org, Electronista, CED, The Hill, Channel Partners News … and MediaPost

Tweets: @stevenlevy and @jdmcintyre

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Google's Motorola to close down Texas factory this year, will continue making Moto X elsewhere — Google's Motorola Mobility to Close Factory in Texas — Fort Worth Plant to Close by End of Year; Employs 700 Workers Who Assemble Moto X Phones — Google Inc. 's attempt to build smartphones …

More: Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Associated Press, PC Magazine and USA Today

Mercury News:

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120 million to needy Bay Area schools — The world's most innovative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area.

More: Mark Zuckerberg, Businessweek, PC Magazine, SiliconBeat, TODAY, Associated Press, VatorNews, bizjournals, Mashable, AllFacebook, Reuters, WebProNews, Re/code and Associated Press

Tweets: @senfeinstein, @jfenster, @audreywatters, @joulee, @mg, @levie and @daniellurie

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Stars extension for Chrome leaks: Hands on — We've known for a while now that Google is testing a new favoriting service called Google Stars, aimed at helping users save, share, and organize Web content. This is largely due to multiple leaks, detailing features as well as showing off the interface in a video and screenshots.

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Ausdroid and Android Authority. Thanks:@epro

Sam Sabri / Windows Phone Central:

Windows Phone 8.1 gets official file manager — Windows Phone 8.1 is so full of surprises and opens the Windows Phone faithful up to a new world of apps. Video editors and file managers are just some of the new app categories possible thanks to Windows Phone 8.1.

More: The Windows Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Pocketnow, xda-developers, Neowin, SlashGear, WinBeta, PhoneDog and WMPoweruser

David Ulevitch / OpenDNS Blog:

OpenDNS will be ad-free for all users starting June 6 — No more ads — TL;DR: We've always tried to put user experience first, even when that gets in the way of making more money. Browsers have changed, we've become a security company, and we've shifted our business to rely …

More: Computerworld and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @garrettr_ and @bortzmeyer

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