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EA kills its controversial Online Pass program

PayPal kills the cash register -- and offers completely free payment processing for 2013

Google's new Android head finally breaks his silence

Google to launch 'Google Play Games' platform services for game developers

Valve's experimental psychologist discusses sweat detection and eye-tracking for games

Google nears launch of paid YouTube subscriptions, report says

Jawbone takes a big bite out of health tech: Acquires BodyMedia, launches Up app platform

Wikileaks releases a fascinating secret chat between Eric Schmidt and Julian a*sange

Twitter Music placeholder site now live as Twitter music service looks to be launched imminently

Adam Orth fired? Microsoft Xbox exec who insulted fans appears to have joined the ranks of the jobseekers

Got an iPhone 4 or 4S? T-Mobile wants to give you an iPhone 5 for $0 down (and up to $120 credit)

Fake Twitter followers go for $18 per 1,000, RTs for 5 cents

Google Fiber coming to Austin? City government & Google holding a meeting next week to announce... something.

More Google April Fools' fun: Google Nose to help you search by scent (video)

SendGrid under DDOS attack after its developer evangelist complains about sexual jokes at PyCon

British Airways will host an 11-hour hackathon in the sky

Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for outting developers on Twitter

Google Keep: A new note-taking service that takes on Evernote

Pebble smartwatch gets closer to letting developers create apps by announcing SDK

The death of Google Reader isn't a tragedy -- it's a wake up call

Change.org petition to keep Google Reader alive attracts over 47K signatures

Google axes Reader and Google Voice for Blackberry

Google I/O tix sales start at 7 am; here are the 3 things you need, plus tips from Google

Netflix finally gets social again with Facebook integration for U.S. customers

Who's crazy enough to buy BlackBerry? Lenovo's CEO ain't ruling it out

Yes, letting Amazon own the .book domain is probably a bad idea

This huge early iPhone prototype had a 5"x7" screen and a plethora of ports

MakerBot unveils its most disruptive tool yet: The Digitizer 3D scanner

Beats raises $60M to spin off 'Daisy' music service into a stand-alone company

Twitter to shut down Android, iOS versions of TweetDeck

Insanity aside, Pirate Bay heads to North Korea for santuary

Sergey Brin continues his crazed crusade for Google Glass

'Big data' is dead. What's next?

HTC settles federal case over its smartphones and tablets logging your data

Google buys Channel Intelligence for $125M to make Google Shopping smarter

Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet

Usability expert tears apart Windows 8

Saudi Arabia tracking women electronically, notifying husbands by text

Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins

Guess who's winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code?

Vinod Khosla says technology will replace 80 percent of doctors - sparks indignation

Bruce Willis could sue Apple over iTunes music ownership rights

Ask President Barack Obama anything on Reddit (seriously)

Tim Cook: "Samsung's copying went far deeper than we knew"

Groupon is threatening small merchants with lawsuits

Apple expected to launch 7.85-screen mini iPad later this year