SlashDot
- MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99
- Northrop Grumman Sues US Postal Service Over Automated Snail-mail Sort Contract
- Kinect In the Operating Room
- Sidestepping Tactical Nuclear Weapons Limits With Strategic Bombs
- Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck
- Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products
- Apple Commits To 100% Renewable Energy Sources for NC Data Center
- Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8
Engadget
- Facebook likes Karma app, buys the whole darn thing
- China clears Google acquisition of Motorola, eliminates last barrier to Googorola bliss (update)
- Robot uses glue gun to make tools, hopes to ace Survival Skills 101
- Insert Coin: CordLite illuminated iPhone cable (video)
- Dish warns the FCC its 4G LTE might come in earnest as late as 2016
- T-Mo delays HTC Amaze 4G online orders due to 'unforeseen issue,' has other recommendations
TechDirt
- European Parliament Member Marietje Schaake's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
- Hollywood Talent Turns To Kickstarter To Escape 'Institutional Censorship'
- How Does Fair Use Fit Into The Critique Of Copyright?
- One Area Where China Should Definitely Stop Ripping Off The West: Copyright Law
- DailyDirt: Hot Dogs!
- London Police To Extract Data From Suspects' Mobile Phones -- And Keep It Even If No Charges Are Brought
ars technica
- Ryan Montbleau Band brings concerts to the fans through DIY livestream
- Hands on with Glassboard 2.0 for iOS: simple, private group sharing
- The Listening Machine converts 500 people’s tweets into music
- Week in Apple: stalkers, antivirus, and MacBook Pros. Oh my!
- Week in tech: $74 Android computers, hardening your smartphone, and Android fragmentation
- Law & Disorder wrap up: PC-stabbing pedophiles and ditching software patents
TechMeme
- Facebook Banker Morgan Stanley Props Up Price It Helped Boost (Bloomberg)
- Google will keep Android free and open for at least five years (Nathan Ingraham/The Verge)
- China Clears Google's Motorola Mobility Deal (John Letzing/Wall Street Journal)
- Sorry, But This Whining And Umbrage About Facebook's IPO Is Ridiculous (Henry Blodget/Business Insider)
- Putting Twitter's "Do Not Track" Feature in Context (Danny Weitzner/The White House Blog)
- Facebook vs. Twitter (Nick Bilton/Bits)
Gizmodo
- How To Turn PVC and Hairspray Into a Force of Destruction
- Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer?
- How to Be Popular on Twitter
- The One Place That Needs More Censorship
- SpaceX Falcon 9: The Future of Commercial Space Flight Blasts Off Tomorrow
- Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It's Public
Lifehacker
- DIY UberFridge Controls Homebrewing Temperatures [Video]
- Repurpose a Towel Rod Into a Cleaning Spray Holder [Repurpose]
- DIY Reusable Dryer Sheets [DIY]
- Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time [Lifehacker Top 10]
- Build a Self-Resetting Mouse Trap [DIY]
- Learn the Built-in Superpowers of Your Brain and Body This Weekend [Weekendhacker]
Gadgetell
- GadgeTell Review: Audiofly AF78 Earbuds
- For $99 Microsoft will de-crapify your PC
- Samsung Cares Android app available in Google Play
- Dish Network angers broadcast TV executives with commercial skipping feature
- Study shows 44% of users never click on Facebook ads, but does it matter?
- Amazon is reportedly thinking of placing ads on the Kindle Fire home screen
Geek.com
- Woman controls robot arm with only her thoughts
- Make someone’s birthday epic with these 8-bit popup cards
- For a limited time, Sprint will buy your old iPhone for $100
- ZeroN levitating model could teach physics, help with 3D design
- Help Cthulu destroy the Boardwalk Empire in this new twist on Monopoly (update)
- Diablo III – A journey through Act II
TechieBuzz
- Apple Files For Preliminary Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 In US
- Samsung Galaxy S III Gets Root Access Before Official Launch!
- Motorola Delays Android 4.0 Update For Droid RAZR To Late Q2; Others In Q3
- The Pains Of Being A Gamer — A 2012 Edition
- Annular Solar Eclipse On May 20th To Miss Most of the Globe
- Historic SpaceX Launch Hits Snag; Cause And Duration Of Delay Unknown
Consumer Reports Blog
- Are netbooks a dying breed? (audio)
- iExit Interstate Guide app takes the guesswork out of pit stops
- Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE has great features that you can't use yet (review)
- A quick hands-on look at LG's first Google TVs
- Haggling for a lower telecom bill really works, says one CR editor
- Social Security's online benefits statement: Useful, easy to get
Chronicle Wired Campus
- Purdue Kicks Off Global Online-Education Project
- Creator of ‘Anonymous’ Gossip Site Names Names
- Groups Team Up to Turn Free Online Courses Into Cheap College Credit
- Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses
- Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available
DP Review
- 30 minute limit on video capture could end if WTO group gets its way
- Samsung announces US pricing for Wi-Fi-capable NX20, NX210 and NX1000
- Sony announces NEX-F3 16MP mirrorless and E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS LE lens
- Just Posted: Sony SLT-A37 16MP entry-level fixed-mirror DSLR preview
- Just Posted: Sony NEX-F3 hands-on preview
- Sony launches SLT-A37 16MP fixed-mirror DSLR and 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 SAM lens
DailyTech
- Quick Note: T-Mobile Disses Upcoming AT&T, Verizon Family Data Plans
- Motorola Androids Banned in the U.S.; Samsung May be the Last Survivor
- Analysts: Nokia Could be Out of Cash in Just a Year
- Researchers Develop Bluetooth Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring System
- Samsung Researchers Inch Closer to Commercial Graphene Transistors
- HP Plans to Cut 25-30k Employees, Force Those Left to be More Efficient
Tech Sanity Check
- Cloud, iPad, and the end of the geek era
- Q&A on BYOD: Answers for IT departments
- 12 critical insights on the state of IT in 2012
- Poll: Are PC/smartphone hybrids a key part of the future?
- U.S. CTO to host live Twitter chat on Big Data at 2PM ET on 4/24
- Google's secret weapon to take down Cupertino and Redmond
MacRumors
- ElcomSoft's Phone Forensics Software Offers Near Real-Time Access to iCloud Backups
- Apple in Talks to Open R&D Facility in Russia's Skolkovo Innovation Centre?
- Apple's Annual iTunes Festival in London Moves to September
- Steve Jobs 'Worked Closely' on Design of Next-Generation iPhone with Larger Display
- Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Shares Some Thoughts About Steve Jobs Biopic, Woz Hired As Advisor
- Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler on Steve Jobs' iCar Dreams, Apple's Living Room Push