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Google’s second generation Nexus 7 is coming next month and it will have a high-res display, new chip and a starting price of at least $229, according to DigiTimes.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/New-Nexus-7-coming-in-July-with-high-res-screen-and-prices-starting-from-229_id44015

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You can now print to your Cloud Print enabled printers straight from your Android devices. This is pretty cool. So far I haven't really needed to print from my Nexus 7 but this gives me more reason to finally getting Cloud Print set up at home.

Google releases Cloud Print app for Android | Android Central I don’t often have to print documents, but when I do …

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As of yesterday, Facebook has made hashtags clickable so you can follow public conversations.
In the immortal words of John McClane, welcome to the party, pal!

Public Conversations on Facebook Facebook Newsroom – Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook.

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Looks like time for speculation is over. The Israeli startup Waze is going to Google and not apple or Facebook for $1.3B.

From the article: "Waze insisted that its Israeli employees should continue working in Israel, which Facebook did not accept."

Congrats to the Waze team. Google, don't screw it up.

Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3b The acquisition of the Israeli navigation app and traffic report start up will be completed after months of speculation involving Google, Facebook and Apple.

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What they initially believed to be nothing more than a hole in their backyard turned out to be a an underground refuge fully stocked with vintage supplies.
Kind of cool to see the circa 1961 supplies in mint condition.

California homeowners discover perfectly preserved nuclear fallout shelter from 1961 in backyard stocked with canned Multi-Purpose Food, Dixie Cups and boxes of Kleenex About 15 feet under the backyard of Chris and Colleen Otcasek’s new home in Woodland Hills, Calif., they discovered a perfectly preserved refuge fully stocked with supplies that was built by a nuclear engineer in 1961.

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Apparently there is a new crime wave going on and the police say they don't know what the device is that thieves are using to defeat car alarms. They say it works on some models and not others.

From the article: "A Long Beach, Calif., surveillance video shows a thief approaching a locked SUV in a driveway. Police say he's carrying a small device in the palm of his hand. You can barely see it, but he aims it at the car and pops the locks electronically. He's in, with access to everything. No commotion at all."

Police admit they’re ‘stumped’ by mystery car thefts  – TODAY.com There’s a new wave of auto thefts that police can’t figure out. So could you be at risk? TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff…

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Maximum PC has a nice overview of the various aspects of Intel's new  Haswell processor. Looks like it is going to be pretty cool. Unless you just spent a bunch of money on a new motherboard as these chips take a different socket. Then again, that's been happening to us for a long time.

Maximum PC Haswell Review

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Yahoo wants to give you more relevant ads so they are shutting down the service you aren't paying for.
They'll also be scanning the unencrypted mail you are sending over the open internet.

Yahoo Shuts Down Mail Classic, Forces Switch To New Version That Scans Your Emails To Target Ads | TechCrunch Starting the week of June 3rd, tomorrow, Yahoo is discontinuing Mail Classic. It’s requiring all Mail users to switch to the new version and accept a TOS/Privacy Policy update that lets it scan emails to “deliver product features, relevant advertising, and abuse protection”. You can..

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Kudos to LinkedIn for implementing 2 factor Authentication. I really wish they had used Google's authenticator but I guess, like Twitter, they didn't want to try and teach people how to use it. 

Here is how to turn it on: http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/two-step-verification-on-linked-in

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LinkedIn gets a little safer with two-step verification The new security measure makes it more complicated for hackers to get into your account because it requires access to your password and mobile phone. Read this article by Jennifer Van Grove on CNET News.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is now seeking eveyone's help to save podcasting for a patent troll.

From the blog post: "The most likely procedure will involve a new legal tool called the “Inter partes review” introduced by the America Invents Act. If we are successful in this process, the patent gets invalidated and Personal Audio would be unable to assert it against anybody."

Some info the the America Invents Act which became law in 2011:
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/index.jsp
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1249/text

Help Save Podcasting! We need your help to save podcasting. EFF is partnering with leading lawyers to bust a key patent being used to threaten podcasters. But we need your help to find prior art and cover the filing fees for a brand new patent busting procedure.

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