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How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses

Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the "great cleansing." At the time, co-founder Gabe Newell quickly reassured gamers that the company wouldn't be canceling any projects, but it just so happens that one project managed to get away.

Sean Hollister theverge.com 10 Hours Ago Read more at theverge.com
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Google's potential Nexus Q successor revealed in FCC filing

An update to the Google Music app broke compatibility with the ill-fated Nexus Q — but it appears Google may have a new media streamer waiting in the wings to replace it.

Bryan Bishop theverge.com 7 Hours Ago Read more at theverge.com
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New Media Streaming Device Made by Google Hits FCC, Please be a New Nexus Q

A new device made by Google recently made its way through the hands of the FCC with model number H2G2-42, product name of “H840 DEVICE,” and a description that says it “functions as a media player.” Yes, a media player.

Kellex droid-life.com 10 Hours Ago Read more at droid-life.com
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Cory Gunther  ·  Google H840 media streamer hits the FCC to replace the Nexus Q
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Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”

Tumblr employees feel that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and view it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks.

Josh Constine techcrunch.com Yesterday Read more at techcrunch.com
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Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge

Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems.

Rip Empson techcrunch.com Yesterday Read more at techcrunch.com
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Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails

Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to make sure that Gmail can spot that information and use it to auto-generate helpful reminders in Google Now.

Darrell Etherington techcrunch.com Yesterday Read more at techcrunch.com
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AP's Attempt At DRM'ing The News Shuts Down

Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago that the Associated Press was working on a plan to "DRM the news." The idea was to put some sort of licensing mechanism together to get news aggregators to pay to promote their news.

Mike Masnick techdirt.com Yesterday Read more at techdirt.com
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Cory Doctorow  ·  Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system
Welcome to Google Island

I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco?s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session.

Mat Honan wired.com Yesterday Read more at wired.com
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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom

At the Google I/O developers conference, any last semblance of privacy came to a screeching halt as people in Google Glass were everywhere.

By NICK BILTON bits.blogs.nytimes.com Yesterday Read more at bits.blogs.nytimes.com
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MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC

With Intel's next-generation Haswell processors set to launch in a matter of weeks and WWDC to kick off soon after, availability of Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air had begun to dry up at major authorized resellers.

appleinsider.com Yesterday Read more at appleinsider.com
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