Google Glass takes wicked road show to Boston July 26

There are only a few places in the world where you can try out Google Glass in person without having to plunk down $1500 to own one first — and on July 26th one of those places will be Boston, Massachusetts. The Google Glass road show is hitting up Boston later this month, camping out at the The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts for one day.

If you'll be in the area and want to try out Glass for yourself, hit up the source link below to RSVP. They'll be open from 10AM to 6PM, and will have "local treats and beverages" on hand to satiate your hunger and thirst. No word on if that means wicked clam chowdah.

Source: Google

Google Nexus 5 'official' Play Store listing reveals price tag

Google's much awaited next-generation
Nexus phone, the Nexus 5 has already
made an online appearance.
Interestingly, the leak comes from not
any other source but Google, as the
phone was accidentally listed on the
Play Store, the company's content,
services and device marketplace.

The
listing appeared for select users and
was pulled by Google after it realised
it's made a faux pas.

The listing even revealed the pricing of
the Nexus 5's 16GB model, which was
listed at $349. The listing showcases
the phone in its full glory offering a
nice look at the phone's rear, front
and left edge.

The pictured device's
form factor is in line with previous
leaks with the back sporting the Nexus
and LG branding and the display
running a version of Android that
matches the leaked Android 4.4 KitKat
screenshots complete with the
transparent navigation key bar and
new icons.

Confirming some more rumours, the
Home screen of the phone doesn't
feature an icon for Messaging, which
appears to have been replaced by the
Hangouts app, as suggested by the
presence of its icon.

The link that should have fetched
details related to the features and
specifications of the device was not
working, so we'll probably have to wait
for these details till Google announces
the phone.

A recent report had suggested that
the Nexus 5 might be priced at $399
for the 16GB model, while the 32GB
model would come at $499, but that
looks to have been proven wrong with
this accidental listing.

Last week, another report claimed that
Google might release Android 4.4
, the latest iteration of its mobile and
tablet operating system, on October 28.
So it's likely that the company will also
announce the Nexus 5 at the same
event.

Earlier this week, t he Nexus 5 was
pictured in new leaked images
that revealed rear and side panels.
Rumoured specifications of the Nexus 5
include a 4.95-inch full-HD (1080p) IPS
LCD display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
quad-core processor clocked at 2.3GHz,
2GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera
with OIS and a 1.3-megapixel front-
facing camera. The alleged Nexus 4
successor has also been expected to
include a host of sensors like ambient
light, proximity, pressure as well as
accelerometer, compass, notification
LED and gyroscope.

Facebook says bug exposed 6 million users' contact information

Facebook Inc has inadvertently
exposed 6 million users' phone
numbers and email addresses to
unauthorised viewers over the past
year, the world's largest social
networking company disclosed late
Friday.
Facebook blamed the data leaks,
which began in 2012, on a technical
glitch in its massive archive of contact
information collected from its 1.1
billion users worldwide. As a result of
the glitch, Facebook users who
downloaded contact data for their list
of friends obtained additional
information that they were not
supposed to have.
Facebook's security team was alerted
to the bug last week and fixed it within
24 hours. But Facebook did not
publicly acknowledge the bug until
Friday afternoon, when it published an
"important message" on its blog
explaining the issue.
A Facebook spokesman said the delay
was due to company procedure
stipulating that regulators and affected
users be notified before making a
public announcement.
"We currently have no evidence that
this bug has been exploited
maliciously and we have not received
complaints from users or seen
anomalous behaviour on the tool or
site to suggest wrongdoing," Facebook
said on its blog.
While the privacy breach was limited,
"it's still something we're upset and
embarrassed by, and we'll work
doubly hard to make sure nothing like
this happens again," it added.
The breach follows recent disclosures
that several consumer Internet
companies turned over troves of user
data to a large-scale electronic
surveillance program run by U.S.
intelligence.
The companies include Facebook,
Google Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc
and Yahoo Inc.
The companies, led by Facebook,
successfully negotiated with the U.S.
government last week to reveal the
approximate number of user
information requests that each
company had received, including
secret national security orders.
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