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• 30 April 2013

• News: Gambler alert: Online poker becomes legal (sort of) again

  Not long after the ink dried on a Nevada state law authorizing legal online poker last February, the Las Vegas-based Ultimate Poker has opened its virtual doors as the first legal real-money poker website in the United States.

• News: Google may have smart eyeglasses but Budweiser has smart beer glasses

  Budweiser is trying to make it easier to make friends -- Facebook friends -- when you're drinking beer.

• News: Altech becomes sole PocketBook distributor for A/NZ

  Electronics manufacturer, PocketBook, has signed Altech Computers as the sole distributor for its e-book readers in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).

• News: IllumiRoom could turn your living room into a holodeck (without Picard, anyway)

  First there was HD. Then there was 4K. Now, Microsoft Research is trying something new with a projection system called IllumiRoom that will make it seem like your entire living room is a holodeck from Star Trek.

• News: HuffPost Live is coming to cable

  Arianna Huffington's multimedia empire built on left-leaning click bait continues to expand.

• News: Skype launches for Outlook.com email service

  A preview of Skype for Outlook.com has launched in the UK today.

• News: Flexible, networked e-ink displays mimic physical documents

  Researchers demonstrated flexible, networked e-ink displays that behave like papers on a desk at a conference in Paris. The displays can be used separately or in tandem, opening up new possibilities for a paperless office.

• News: D-Link firmware flaws could allow IP video stream spying

  If you run a bank and use an IP video camera from D-Link, you may want to pay attention to this.

• 29 April 2013

• News: AU Optronics executive sentenced for LCD price-fixing

  A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a US$50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• News: Internet-famous cat, Lil Bub wins at the Tribeca Film Festival

  As predicted, famous Internet cat, Lil Bub has reigned victorious at the Tribeca Film Festival.

• News: Qualcomm's wireless power technology allows for pad-free charging

  If Qualcomm's vision becomes a reality, users will be able to wirelessly recharge smartphones and tablets without placing them in direct contact with charging pads.

• News: Get a peek inside NYC Resistor and see where the maker revolution started

  Papercraft lamps. Cables hanging everywhere. An overhead clock with a dot-matrix display that looks like the DRADIS from Battlestar Galactica. A vending machine that dispenses food as well as electronics. Someone inside a closet yelling, "firing the laser!" This is the mad-technologist scene you walk into when you visit NYC Resistor, one of the most well-established hackerspaces in New York City.

• 27 April 2013

• News: Remains of the Day: I could be the next

  Messages leaves users hanging, Apple wants to school you on in-app purchases, and Eric Schmidt is back with some more awkward truths. The remainders for Friday, April 26, 2013, are on the edge of their seats.

• 26 April 2013

• News: AT&T flips the switch on home automation with Digital Life platform

  Almost a year since it first teased its home automation and security solution, AT&T began taking orders for the Digital Life platform in 15 metro areas across the U.S., including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and New York.

• News: Folding USB Solar Cell will power your devices on the go

  Harnessing the sun is an idea that broadly resonates with people, but is often most useful for smaller devices with lesser energy needs. Brown Dog Gadgets is looking to capitalize on this fact a neat little bundle of device-charging panels simply labeled the Folding USB Solar Cell (funding through May 2).

• News: Listen to the voice of Alexander Graham Bell (and other stuff you missed)

  Between the announcement from Nintendo that the company will not be holding a press conference at this year's E3, and the unfortunate news from EA that restructuring has resulted in hundreds of layoffs, it's been a pretty tumultuous day for the video game world. In case any of this news has gotten to you, why not read a few stories about the inventor of the telephone, booger benefits, and a robotic chicken to take your mind off it all?

• News: Remains of the Day: Spaceward ho!

  Part of Apple's campus is delayed until after a spaceship launch, iTunes sales aren't on the grow, and German iPhone users may once again be notified of their email schnell! The remainders for Thursday, April 25, 2013 speak a dozen languages, know every local custom--they'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see them again.

• News: Samsung profits soar on phones, tablets; high hopes for Galaxy S4

  Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42 percent from a year ago.

• 25 April 2013

• News: Smart glass market could hit 9.4M shipments by 2016

  With Google's futuristic wearable computers on the way, one research firm calculates that the worldwide market for smart glasses could reach nearly 10 million units by 2016.

• News: 'Mad Men' writers pitch a new show about NASA (and other stuff you missed)

  Apple's WWDC is coming, and so is a new Xbox. if that wasn't enough geeky excitement for you for one day, then you'll want to take a look at your mid-week GeekBytes update. Today's roundup features Mad Men in space (sort of), the cost of being Iron Man, and how the furniture of the future could do away with assembly instructions.

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