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RT @jackbrewster: Real email from HP this morning: “Windows 7 - back by popular demand” Ouch

His new venture joins a suddenly crowded market of startups founded or staffed by journalists with large personal brands:

Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company.

Verizon made it official on the day of its Q4 2013 earnings call: The company is indeed buying the assets of Intel Media, the Intel subsidiary that has been developing an internet TV service called OnCue. As the deal unfolds, a lot of people focus on Intel and its inability to break into the TV business. But as interesting as that story is, it’s also worth taking a look at the other side of the coin: Verizon’s purchase of the Intel Media assets is a fascinating story of a company that was ready to give up on TV — until it abruptly changed course to turn on one of its former partners and take on one of the biggest players in the industry.

I bet there are some great apps on your iPhone. I mean, why else would you have downloaded them, right? But some apps just don't live up to their billing, and others lose their luster over time. You have some of these apps on your iPhone, too, and now it's time to let them go.

We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading once per second. We’re also investigating the potential for this to serve as an early warning for the wearer, so we’re exploring integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed above or below certain thresholds. It’s still early days for this technology, but we’ve completed multiple clinical research studies which are helping to refine our prototype. We hope this could someday lead to a new way for people with diabetes to manage their disease.

No, the real deal-breaker is the marketing. The thing launched like three seconds ago and already I’m getting notifications for “questions” from mobile phone companies, soft drink firms and so on. As Mashable put it, Jelly is the new “play toy” for brands.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued Apple a patent for a touch pad that removes the traditional "clickable" integrated button, replacing it with four or more force sensors and an actuator to provide tactile feedback.

Eddy Cue, Apple's iTunes and App Store chief and a key lieutenant of Chief Executive Tim Cook, has met with industry executives to discuss Apple's interest in handling payments for physical goods and services on its devices, according to people familiar with the situation. In another sign of the company's interest, Apple moved Jennifer Bailey, a longtime executive who was running its online stores, into a new role to build a payment business within the technology giant, three people with knowledge of the move said.

Facebook’s growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.

RT @Techmeme: Chromebooks accounted for 19% of U.S. K-12 mobile computer purchases in 2013 (@rolfewinkler)

RT @Techmeme: Chromebooks accounted for 19% of U.S. K-12 mobile computer purchases in 2013 (@rolfewinkler)

But Google is a search company, and search sucks these days. So Google's leveraging AI—specifically deep learning—to fix it. Whatever the company's super sci-fi futuristic long-term vision is for Deep Mind and its AI research, it's also going to use the technology to inch closer to truly semantic search.

RT @Techmeme: Apple execs say iOS and OS X won't merge, and 10.10 will prove that (@markgurman / 9to5Mac)

RT @Techmeme: Apple execs say iOS and OS X won't merge, and 10.10 will prove that (@markgurman / 9to5Mac)

RT @Techmeme: Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue (@joemullin)

RT @Techmeme: Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue (@joemullin)

RT @hackernewsbot: A Brief And Mostly Wrong History Of Programming Languages...

RT @labnol: The story (and business model) of 2 teenagers who are secretly running popular Twitter accounts like @HistoryInPics

RT @Techmeme: Meet "Paper," Facebook's New Answer For Browsing - and Creating - Mobile Media (@mikeisaac)

RT @Techmeme: Meet "Paper," Facebook's New Answer For Browsing - and Creating - Mobile Media (@mikeisaac)

RT @Techmeme: Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network

RT @Techmeme: Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network

RT @Techmeme: Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track bitcoin with the rest of your finances

RT @Techmeme: Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track bitcoin with the rest of your finances

RT @Techmeme: Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for 'critical'…

RT @Techmeme: Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for 'critical'…

RT @Techmeme: Apple 2013 Mac Pro review: successful workstation design, a great template for future versions

RT @Techmeme: Apple 2013 Mac Pro review: successful workstation design, a great template for future versions