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SlashGear  about an hour ago:

Spotify shareable top 50 charts planned to combat Google’s jukebox -

Spotify plans to launch Top 50 lists of the most popular content on the streaming music service today, complete with on-demand preview access so that even those without accounts can listen to the tracks.
SlashGear  3 hours ago:

Giant asteroid 1998 QE2 to pass Earth on May 31 -

A giant asteroid called 1998 QE2, named after the year it was discovered, is slated to whiz past Earth on May 31, something it won’t do again for another 200 years.
SlashGear  3 hours ago:

NASA grant to fund 3D-printed food system prototype -

We’ve heard about 3D-printed guns and a 3D-printed implant, but a new project is taking the use of these printing machines to a whole new level: 3D-printed food.
SlashGear  4 hours ago:

Anonymous operation sends Guantanamo’s wifi into shutdown -

Reports have been surfacing for awhile now regarding hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay by prisoners over indefinite imprisonment – without trial – which has resulted in force feeding.
SlashGear  5 hours ago:

Spot unveils Global Phone satellite handset for near-global coverage -

Spot has introduced a satellite-powered global cell phone called – quite aptly – the Spot Global Phone.
SlashGear  6 hours ago:

Assassin’s Creed movie release date unveiled -

On July 9, 2012, we reported that Michael Fassbender had been signed to star in the Assassin’s Creed movie adaption that, at the time, had an unspecified release date.
SlashGear  7 hours ago:

Apple avoided billions in taxes via complex system says investigators -

It is no secret that corporations use tax loopholes and such to get out of paying what often amounts to a hefty chunk of money in taxes.
SlashGear  8 hours ago:

Google Checkout to be retired November 20 -

Google rolled out Google Wallet back in 2011, and now the time has come to retire Google Checkout. The news was made in an announcement earlier today, with Google notifying merchants using Google Checkout that in six months the service will go dark following a transition to Wallet.
SlashGear  9 hours ago:

Leap Motion demos Windows 8 gesture-control functionality ahead of beta launch -

Leap Motion has rolled out a preview of its gesture-control functionality on Windows 8 (it will work for Windows 7 as well, though).
SlashGear  11 hours ago:

Yahoo boosts Flickr storage to one terabyte, reboots Android app -

This week amid word that the company had purchased Tumblr to give its youth segment a boost, the company made use of the press it’d been given for a couple boosts to Flickr.