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Watch Google Show Off 4 Glass Apps
Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:34 PMEmily Price
During SXSW last month, Google held a session entitled “Building New Experiences With Glass,” where it offered developers information about Glass’ Mirror API, and demonstrated some of the apps that are already in development for Glass, such as Gmail, Path, and Evernote.

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Explore the World's Oldest Photography Museum via Google
Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:16 PMVignesh Ramachandran
The George Eastman House is the first museum of photography to join the Google Art Project, a digital collection for works of art. Without leaving your couch, you can visit Google's Art Project online and see more than 40,000 works of art from across the world. Now, the George Eastman House, which is the oldest museum of photography and photo technique, has added 50 images to the project, as explained in the video above.

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Zuckerberg's Big Mistake: Launching Facebook Home in the U.S.
Thursday, April 04, 2013 6:44 PMPete Pachal
Whatever you may think about Facebook Home, you can't question its intent — to put Facebook at the core of your mobile experience, not just another app. Everything about Home and the new HTC First is about making Facebook even more dominant than it already is on people's phones. That idea might by appealing if you either: A). Have a digital life that is completely dominated by Facebook.

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Facebook Home: Everything You Need to Know
Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:51 PMChristina Warren
Facebook announced Thursday its big mobile plans for Android: Facebook Home. Although it will initially be available only on a few models, Facebook Home represents how Facebook wants to exist on Android phones. If you're confused by Facebook Home or just want to get a better understanding of everything the new interface entails, we've got you covered.

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Google Challenges Secretive National Security Letter in Court
Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:42 PMLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
A month after Google became the first company to release data on the secretive government requests known as National Security Letters, the search giant is again setting a precedent as the first major tech company to openly challenge one in court. Awareness of the challenge, reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, was the result of the mysterious nature of the NSL itself.

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Mark Zuckerberg Moonlights as a Middle School Teacher
Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:59 PMTodd Wasserman
In case this Facebook thing doesn't work out, Mark Zuckerberg can always fall back on his second job: middle school teacher. The Facebook CEO disclosed to Wired that he teaches a class every week to a middle school in East Menlo Park, Calif. Zuckerberg says he was influenced by his wife, Priscilla, who went into teaching after graduating from Harvard.

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Hands On With Facebook Home
Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:53 PMEmily Price
Facebook introduced Facebook Home on Thursday, a new home screen for your Android phone that integrates the Facebook experience into other functions on your device. We had the opportunity to spend a little time with Facebook Home following Facebook’s event running on both the HTC First –- a phone that will come with Facebook Home pre-installed – as well as the Galaxy Note II, which had Facebook Home installed from Google Play.

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Facebook Home: A Really Nice Screensaver
Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:22 PMChris Taylor
We came in to Thursday's press event in Menlo Park expecting a "Facebook phone," and in the HTC First we got one. Kinda. But there was a reason Mark Zuckerberg devoted little more than five minutes at the end of the event to the First. He wants us to focus on Facebook Home. The $99 First is little more than a low-cost LTE Android phone with Home pre-installed.

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Facebook Home Will Not Actively Track Users' Location
Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:17 PMAlex Fitzpatrick
Facebook Home, Facebook's just-announced feature that will essentially turn the homepages of users' Android devices into a Facebook landing page, will not actively track users' GPS location, Facebook has confirmed to Mashable. Facebook Home, which seems to constantly run on users' phones, instantly raised privacy concerns when it was unveiled Thursday.

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Facebook Home Puts Facebook First and Everyone Else Second
Thursday, April 04, 2013 3:43 PMLance Ulanoff
Facebook Home turns android phones into Facebook Phones, but will this walled garden be too much for some people and for competitors?

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Do You 'Like' Facebook's Home Announcement?
Thursday, April 04, 2013 3:32 PMRyan Lytle
Are you satisfied with Facebook's big announcements? Take our poll.

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How to Get Facebook Home on April 12
Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:51 PMCharlie White
Eager to try Facebook Home? You won't be able to do that today, but on April 12, you'll be able to download the software on three currently available smartphones that are supported by the new Facebook Home Android experience. The most seamless way to get your hands on Facebook Home is to pick up HTC's new phone specifically created for it, the HTC First.

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Twitter Chuckles Over Facebook's Chat Heads
Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:20 PMNeha Prakash
Facebook announced a new method of mobile messaging Thursday: A system where users can send and receive messages within other apps as to not disrupt their general workflow. The name of this visionary technology? Chat heads. (Pause for reaction.) Of course, the Twitterverse instantly went to work questioning Mark Zuckerberg's sanity for approving the odd name.

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Facebook Stock Up 3% After Facebook Phone Event
Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:15 PMSeth Fiegerman
Wall Street seems to like Facebook's phone more than they liked Graph Search. Facebook stock shot up by more than 3% on the day following Facebook's phone event, rising above $27 a share for the first time since mid-March. The stock had ticked up slightly this week in anticipation of the event and was trading at around $26.65 just before the event began.

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Watch Facebook's First Ad for 'Home'
Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:06 PMTodd Wasserman
Facebook has dropped its first ad for Home, which it is calling a "whole new experience for your phone." The 60-second ad above takes a page from Apple's playbook and presents Home as an un-scary technology that puts people first. Voiceover: "We carry our phones wherever we go. They're with us almost every second of the day. We reach for them when we have a free moment or we're curious.

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