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After some prying — and boy did we pry — Thorson boiled Swipp down to “a social data play” that will “extract a lot more knowledge and intelligence from the communities than Facebook and Twitter do.” The 10-person startup also believes it has hit upon a never-seen-before business model that will appeal to brands.

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But the right to be forgotten also gives people the right to demand the removal of embarrassing information that others post about them, regardless of its source, unless Google or Facebook can prove to a European regulator that the information is part of a legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise. This would transform Facebook and Google from neutral platforms into global censors and would clash directly with the principle, embedded in U.S. free-speech law, that people can’t be restricted from publishing embarrassing but truthful information. As a result, the right to be forgotten may precipitate the Internet Age’s most dramatic conflict between European conceptions of privacy and American conceptions of free speech.

Changes to pricing. While the Maps API remains free for the vast majority of sites, some developers were worried about the potential costs. In response, we have lowered the online price from US $4 per 1,000 map loads to 50¢ per 1,000 map loads.

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The two companies said they will join hands to establish technology by 2013 to mass produce flat-screen TVs using organic light-emitting diodes—an advanced display technology.

As rumoured, Google’s going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to the leak, it’s built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB.

We’ve previously been able to pull data from PreEVT iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes codenamed N41AP (5,1) and N42AP (5,2), which leads us to believe that the new iPhone will have a bigger 1136×640 display. We also detailed a lot of the hardware here but forgot one very important little bit of information. Further investigation into this hardware code dump leads us to believe that these iPhones also have Near Field Communication (NFC) controllers directly connected to the power management unit (PMU).

It's the first time the paper has brought its pay meter to another company's platform. The Times said the effort is part of a strategy it called "NYT Everywhere," a riff on the TV industry's bid to let people watch TV on all kinds of devices -- "TV Everywhere" -- as long as they also pay for a cable or satellite subscription.

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Google announced the next version of Android, dubbed Jelly Bean, today, and it is jam-packed with new goodies for developers and consumers to play with. Google is rolling out the over-the-air Android 4.1 update in mid-July, and developers will get the software development kit Wednesday at Google I/O.

The newly announced Nexus 7 tablet will be the first Android device to ship to market, that will be carrying Google Chrome as the standard browser. This is pretty significant, and it looks as though that beta period is about to come to an end. Chrome is a seriously impressive browser that just cries out for tablet use. Maybe this is the start of a beautiful new relationship?

A few weeks ago we told you that offline Google Maps for Android was coming. Now, you can download the latest version of the app in Google Play, then select and save a region of a map from more than 150 countries for use offline. Whether travelling internationally, carrying a WiFi-only device, heading underground on the subway or restricting your mobile data usage, you can now save up to six large metro areas (e.g., Greater London, Paris, or New York City and surrounding area) and use Google Maps for Android to find your way.

Splayed out on an operating table with its innards on full display, Nexus Q loses all of it pop-art panache. But who can resist cracking open the ball to see what makes it tick? Surely the destruction of one specimen was worth the sacrifice, right? We think so, and we thank Google for providing this exploded view as part of Wired's exclusive access to the Nexus Q project, which was announced Wednesday at Google I/O.