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- What Facebook Home means for Google
There are a number of pros and cons for Android devices allowing Facebook Home, but what does it mean for Google?
- In Philadelphia, Atari's Pong goes big, big, big screen
Frank Lee, a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is staging perhaps the biggest-screen version of Pong in history.
- Microsoft: Facebook Home is cool. But a lot of those ideas are ours.
Facebook Home, a new suite of Android apps, was unveiled at a big press event yesterday. And one Microsoft exec is saying that we've seen it before.
- Samsung to open mini-stores in Best Buys
Samsung has announced that it will be opening stores inside 1,400 Best Buys by this summer.
- In lieu of a Facebook phone, a new Facebook 'Home'
At a press event at Facebook HQ today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced a suite of new Android apps called Home.
- PC sales set to plummet as tablet sales take over: report
Analytics firm Gartner has painted a grim portrait of the PC market over the next couple years. But is it accurate?
- Is Facebook smartphone just a new way to collect data about you?
Facebook's smartphone launch raises alarms with consumer advocates who worry that more ease for consumers also means less privacy, as Facebook extends its capacity to mine personal data.
- Samsung teams up with Mozilla to build a better browser
What happens when a hardware manufacturer teams up with a software group? With the collaboration between Samsung and Mozilla, we're about to find out.
- The cellphone revolution kicked off 40 years ago today
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper placed the world's first cellphone call. The rest is history.
- How Maria Sibylla Merian opened our eyes to nature
Google celebrates the 366th birthday of German artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose observations of insects and their habitats stood at the dawn of the scientific revolution.
- Google faces inquiries (and possible fines) from European regulators
Six counties, including France and the UK, will launch probes into a 2012 Google privacy policy.
- Steve Jobs had a hand in next two generations of iPhone: report
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011, may have had a more active role in the development of the iPhone line than previously thought.
- Maria Sibylla Merian: Why her art changed how we see nature
Maria Sibylla Merian was not just an extremely talented artist. She was also a scientific pioneer.
- This year's best online April Fools' Day jokes
Better watch out: the interwebs are joining in on the April Fools' festivities. Check out some of these prank pages and announcements by some of the biggest names on the Web.
- Official invitation hints at a Facebook phone
Facebook has sent out invitations to an event on April 4, where the company promised to unveil its 'new home on Android.'
- Meet Cyro, the robotic jellyfish that will haunt your dreams
Engineers at Virginia Tech are working on a gigantic, synthetic robo-jellyfish, which could eventually have military applications.
- Indoor GPS: Why tech companies want to track you inside
This week Apple purchased WiFiSLAM, an "indoor GPS" company whose technology allows precise navigation inside buildings. Indoor GPS could make navigating shopping centers and airports easier, but Apple and other companies will have to implement it in a way that respects users' privacy.