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Make a movie with Google: New Chrome experiment highlights Web Speech API

In the Peanut Gallery, you get to add intertitles to old black-and-white movies (the ones before any speech support, never mind the web). And you do it, of course, simply by talking to Chrome.

YC startup Teespring, the ‘Kickstarter for T-shirts,’ growing 50% monthly, hits $750K monthly sales

Apparently there's a growth market in T-shirts. But it's not in the shirts themselves.

Apple releases iOS 6.1.3: Lock screen bug squashed, Maps improved

No more unauthorized lock screen access for you!

China outed for clumsy state-media attack on Apple

How do you know you're getting too successful in China? When government-sponsored media start to attack you in ways both subtle and obvious -- sometimes at the same time.

Google brings Chromebooks to the world (or at least more of it)

After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.

Funny or Die’s full-length Steve Jobs movie written and shot in 8 days, set for April 15 release

Anyone else who wants to make a Steve Jobs movie? Get in line and take a number.

Twitter releases new ad targeting tools: Interest, platform, fans, and gender

Twitter announced new self-service ad tools today with much finer-grained targeting controls that will allow small advertisers to craft ad campaigns to exactly the audience they want.

Thar she blows: Mars rover Curiosity sees yet more evidence of water

Using a neutron gun and an infrared imaging camera, researchers found signs of hydration: water molecules bound to minerals in Martian rock.

Andrew Auernheimer: 41 months of jail and a $73,000 fine for querying AT&T servers

"It looks like Andew got slammed into a desk by federal agents while trying to hand his phone to his lawyer after the court asked for his phone," his publicist told me via email.

Wikipedia crowdsources site performance: Speeding up 488,731 templates with a little Lua to go

"We’re letting people program Wikipedia unsupervised," Harihareswara wrote. " Anyone can write a chunk of code to be included in an article that will be seen by millions of people, often without much review."

Terrorist, hacker, freedom fighter: Andrew Auernheimer parties tonight in expectation of jail tomorrow

"It's a f*cking ludicrous charge," Auernheimer told me this morning from New Jersey. "The FBI has tried to frame me for terrorism five times, and by their own admission they've been surveilling me since I was 15 years old."

The evolution of Samsung’s Galaxies (infographic)

Just three years ago, Samsung launched one of the most successful lines of smartphones in history: the Galaxy series.

Jimu makes building Android apps as simple as playing Lego … but still developer-friendly

"We want to make it possible for a lot more people to create apps," Jimu founder Linkton Ye told me yesterday via Skype. "Everyone should be able to play with the software that surrounds us."

Samsung’s Galaxy S IV will mark the beginning of the end of Samsung’s smartphone dominance

The more Samsung "adds value" to Android by customizing a version of it for the Galaxy line of phones, the more it will suck.

Google and Samsung: With partners like these, who needs enemies?

With the new Galaxy S4, Samsung is moving farther and farther away from Google. In fact, you have to wonder, will Samsung turn into the new Amazon?

Raspberry Pi-powered open-source bartending robot nearly funded on Kickstarter

Who wouldn't want a Raspbery Pi-powered open source bartending that you control with your phone or tablet?

InnovateCV innovates the resume, the cover letter, and the application … right out of existence

"Our enemy is the resume," Lewis said. "We want candidates to show their true colors … which you can't do in a black and white resume."

From Nike+ and Fitbit to nuclear plants and corporate databases, embedded analytics are everywhere (infographic)

Even though analytics is already a $34 billion industry, only 25 percent of workers have access to BI tools -- mostly due to costs which are still too high, and complexity, which is still too great.