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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // April 30, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 30, 2013

Microsoft Launches Preview Of Skype For Outlook.com

Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany... read more

Games Company Releases Version For Pirates That Forces Them To Fail Constantly, Irony Lost On Pirates

This is a fascinating little blip that popped up this morning and bears a mention. Games company GreenHeart released an $8 game called Game Dev Tycoon. The... read more

Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild

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Fred Wilson On Pitching A VC: Leave The Backstory At Home

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Facebook's Graph Search Supremo Lars Rasmussen On Relocating To London, Building A New Team, And The Challenges Of Natural Language

Lars Rasmussen, one of the two engineering directors who led in the creation of Facebook's new Graph Search and helps run its development, is leaving Menlo Park... read more

Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia For Over $100 Million To Give It An Edge In Wearable Health Tracking

It was just about two months ago that Jawbone snapped up mobile health startup Massive Health, and now the company has acquired an even more prominent player in... read more

On Track For $250M In 2013 Sales, Fab Pivots Again, Buys Custom Furniture Shop Massivkonzept And Opens Retail Storefront

Design-focused retail site Fab has announced its new pivot, along with an acquisition and much more.... read more

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins Says Tablets "Not A Good Business Model," Evidently Forgetting About iPad

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins seems to be among the most transparent executives in tech in terms of showing his hand regarding future product plans, which may... read more

Jawbone UP Becomes A Platform With New Partners, Open API Coming Soon

Jawbone is doing something a lot of developers will probably be interested in, by opening up the UP fitness tracking wristband as a platform play, with an open... read more

ClickTale Raises $17M For Its In-Page Analytics

ClickTale, a company that helps businesses understand what visitors are actually doing on their websites, just announced that it has raised $17 million in... read more

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Monday, April 29, 2013

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YouTube now offers more MLB highlights and full archived games

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:44 AM PDT

Virgin Galactic's commercial space plane makes first successful test flight

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:36 AM PDT

IRL: Skullcandy Crusher headphones and ASUS' G74SX gaming laptop

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Nest 3.5 update adjusts for humidity and sunlight, fine-tunes fan control

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 05:00 AM PDT

SRI EV1 brings all-electric racing to the Mexican 1000 rally (video)

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:34 AM PDT

Kingston's MobileLite Wireless is a memory card reader that doubles as a charger

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:08 AM PDT

Google Now available on iOS devices starting today

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:06 AM PDT

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 review

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Evernote Food 2.0 for Android offers revamped UI, more ways to document your dietary obsessions

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:00 AM PDT

Sony Xperia Tablet Z now up for pre-order, scheduled to ship May 24th (video)

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:27 AM PDT

Minecraft creator launches browser-based Drop, makes us wish we'd taken touch-typing lessons

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:17 AM PDT

Skinny Huawei smartphone shows off 6.2mm profile in Chinese certification

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 11:11 PM PDT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, joins the Android tablet line-up with low-resolution 7-inch screen

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:22 PM PDT

Samsung tells the design story behind the Galaxy S 4 (video)

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:50 PM PDT

Nintendo now selling refurbished DSi XL and 3DS units for $100 and up

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:38 PM PDT

Budweiser's Buddy Cup makes Facebook friending a toast away

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:54 PM PDT

How would you change Sony's VAIO T13?

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:42 PM PDT

LG unveils Optimus GK in Korea, brings G Pro features in a 5-inch package

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:37 PM PDT

Meebo to retire toolbar on June 6th, plans to focus on Google+ instead

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:17 PM PDT

Refresh Roundup: week of April 22nd, 2013

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 02:25 PM PDT

LG will launch the world's first 55-inch curved OLED HDTV (update)

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 01:51 PM PDT

OpenMobile ACL for webOS resurrected on Kickstarter, hopes to bring Android apps to HP Touchpad

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 01:11 PM PDT

The Weekly Roundup for 04.22.2013

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Switched On: Microsoft's small tablet trap

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Living with Glass, Day Four: Canyon Carving

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:04 AM PDT

Top Stories of the Day // April 29, 2013

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Disrupt NY begins today and you can watch all of the action happening live at Manhattan Center! The conference runs Monday-Wednesday so check out the agenda and you won't miss a thing. Watch Now

Today's Top Stories // Apr 29, 2013

Google Now Launches On iOS

Google just released Google Now for iOS through an update to the Google Search app for iOS. Google maintains that the service is exactly the same as Google Now... read more

Android Took 64% Of All Smartphone Sales Globally In Q1; Windows Phone Continues Modest Gains, Says Kantar

Google's mobile OS Android continues to power ahead as the world's most popular smartphone platform, according to figures out today from Kantar Worldpanel... read more

Square Updates Its Register iPad App With Kitchen Tickets, Ordering Features To Better Serve Restaurants

Square's point-of-sale technology and iPad-powered register, Square Register is getting a big update today targeted at better serving restaurants. New features... read more

Benchmark's Bill Gurley: "Uber Is Growing Faster Than eBay Did"

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Samsung Announces The Underwhelming Galaxy Tab 3

Samsung introduced its latest tablet today, the Galaxy Tab 3, and it's clear that the Tab line is destined to play a distinct second fiddle to the Galaxy Note... read more

Apple's OS X 10.9 Will Reportedly Allow Multi-Monitor Fullscreen, More Power-User Friendly Finder

Apple's next version of OS X, 10.9 is on the way, according to 9to5Mac, and will offer an improved multi-monitor experience, finally allowing users to run... read more

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Begins Now: View The Live Stream Here!

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Jarvis Is A Personal Assistant That Goes Beyond Siri To Embrace The Connected Home

If you're an Iron Man fan, you already know about Jarvis, Tony Stark's personal assistant (who's either a human or a virtual AI, depending on how long you've... read more

Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Says We're At An 'Absolute' Low Point In Startup Quality

Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that the tech world should be... read more

Chris Dixon Plans On Investing In More Bitcoin Startups, Says More Entrepreneurs Are Getting Involved

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Engadget News

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The After Math: Exploring Glass, Apple's cash and Nintendo's no-go keynote

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 06:02 AM PDT

Inhabitat's Week in Green: flying electric car, 3D-printed livers and a two-story-tall bike

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:00 AM PDT

Paranoid Android teases in-app pop-up window multitasking (video)

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 02:21 AM PDT

Vermont Telephone Company's gigabit internet service is live, half the price of Google Fiber

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 10:52 PM PDT

LG Optimus F5 mid-range LTE smartphone hits France April 29, global dispersion to follow

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 07:52 PM PDT

Samsung Galaxy Mega hits FCC (again), this time with LTE

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 05:51 PM PDT

Ask Engadget: best WiFi router for super-fast Fiber?

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Mobile Miscellany: week of April 22nd, 2013

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 02:45 PM PDT

Samsung Galaxy S 4 drops original TecTile support, requires new TecTile 2

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Alt-week 4.27.13: stargazing, antimatter and a robot turtle

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Google releases Glass kernel GPL source, lets developers have at it

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 09:29 AM PDT

Uncover gives your MacBook's lid a new, Apple-less kind of glow

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 08:06 AM PDT

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Engadget News

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Visualized: Boeing supersonic airliner concept soars in a wind tunnel, quietly

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 06:37 AM PDT

Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 05:00 AM PDT

iPlayer for Android update brings improved experience on Galaxy S III, Note 2 and Nexus 4, tablets to follow

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 03:44 AM PDT

Ethiopian Airlines completes first commercial 787 Dreamliner flight since grounding

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 02:04 AM PDT

Stephen Wolfram says he almost had a deal with Google, but it 'blew up'

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 11:25 PM PDT

UK regulator wants white space wireless service in 2014, starts trials this fall

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:07 PM PDT

Samsung Galaxy S 4 now available online at Sprint, in stores today at AT&T

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 05:45 PM PDT

Developers gain root access on Google Glass, not yet sure what to do with it

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Oppo's 4.7-inch, 6.93mm-thick R809T pays homage to the Finder

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 03:18 PM PDT

Clipr sends pasted text to your phone via SMS with a press of a button

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Root exploit unearthed for Snapdragon-based Galaxy S 4

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT

Japan clears 787s for takeoff pending FAA-approved battery fix

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:08 PM PDT

Artificial sense of touch gets smarter, lets robots really feel

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 12:20 PM PDT

Uber's back in Gotham: NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission approves cab-hailing app

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 11:44 AM PDT

The Daily Roundup for 04.26.2013

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 11:30 AM PDT

This week on gdgt: Samsung plays it safe with the Galaxy S 4

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT

AirDroid 2.0 update adds phone finder, camera access and cellular data use

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Samsung reportedly launching new 8-inch tablet in June, Galaxy S 4 Active in July

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:58 AM PDT

EVE Online dev reveals Oculus Rift-based space dogfighting 'experience' (update: video!)

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:29 AM PDT

Editor's Letter: The new consoles are coming

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Google Glass' vision of the future runs on a 2011 smartphone chip

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:42 AM PDT

Engadget Podcast 341 - 04.26.13

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:30 AM PDT

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Nokia Lumia 520 review: does Nokia need another budget Windows Phone?

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Wii U Virtual Console now live on the eShop

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Galaxy S4 teardown reveals the silicon beauty within the plastic beast

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 07:31 AM PDT

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