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Microsoft caves in, cripples YouTube for Windows Phone 8 with the latest update

On Wednesday, Microsoft rolls out an update for its YouTube Windows Phone 8 app which takes away the ability to download content from the popular video-sharing website.

Google X acquires MakaniPower, an airborne wind turbine manufacturer

Larry Page just picked up another bird for his flying craft collection, and this plane doesn't even carry passengers. In fact, it's not used for transportation at all -- the aircraft is tethered to the ground.

Samsung announces Galaxy S 4 sales of 10 million, new colors coming this summer

Just as CEO JK Shin predicted, Samsung has announced its new Galaxy S 4 topped 10 million units sold in record time.

That beats the 50 days it took the Galaxy S III to sell that many, a mark it took 5 months for the Galaxy S II to pass and 7 months for the original Galaxy S.

Google now offers Top Charts and visualization tool for trending topics

Instead of waiting until the end of the year for Google's annual Zeitgeist, you can now find out what's trending in any given month with a new Top Charts feature from Google Trends.

Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed

psykocrime writes "The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have a new blog post positing that there is a trend towards advanced projects in NLP, Information Retrieval, Big Data and the Semantic Web moving to the Apache Software Foundation.

Google Thinks Gayest and Worst Mean the Same Thing

When you search for something on Google, Google knows what you're looking for even if you're not saying it exactly. Google search is smart like that.

Google's Eric Schmidt believes one company is an island

A slip of the tongue by Google's executive chairman speaks volumes about his perception of the company's tax obligations

A week or so ago, Google's chief executive, Larry Page, caused ripples when he suggested at a public event that laws older than 50 years

Google to activate voice search in Chrome iOS app

In a post to its Chrome blog on Wednesday, Google announced plans to bring intuitive voice searches directly into the Chrome Web browser for iOS.

Google's new 3D Maps destroy Manhattan in the wake of Apple's Flyover

Nearly a year after Apple introduced its own Maps service in iOS 6 with Flyover 3D satellite views, Google is expanding its own online Maps to support similar 3D satellite imagery, with the same sorts of buckled roads and visual distortions Apple was castigated for last summer.

Eric Schmidt Still A Fan Of Figuring Out A Way To Erase The Past

Back in 2010, we wrote about Google's Eric Schmidt suggesting that in the future kids might change their names as they reach adulthood in order to disconnect their present-selves from their youthful indiscretions that were recorded permanently online.