How to hack Google Glass, void your warranty, and brick your new $1,500 augmented-reality specs

This is how you know you're not at an Apple conference. At Google I/O today, Google's holding a session on voiding your Google Glass warranty.

Teen developer funds startup by auctioning 10% of her future income (interview)

Who wants to go to college if you can start earning money right away?

Data science nerds bring machine learning to the masses (exclusive)

Berkeley-based Wise.io has launched its first product for data scientists and developers as part of a goal to make machine learning technology more accessible.

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."

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."

Storage startup SwiftStack gets $6.1M to take on EMC and NetApp

SwiftStack's software defined storage solution can run on commodity hardware, and is cheaper than building a storage system from scratch.

Facebook’s new actions let you run, walk, and read — and make Facebook more money

Facebook's database of you, your friends, and the entire world is going grow as a result, as will the degree of intelligence built into the social network. And yes, so will Facebook's monetization options.

5,000 developers say HTML5 is real, it’s now, and yeah, it’s also the future

Only 15 percent of developers would go native-only when building an app for multiple platforms.

This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser

Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.

Facebook: How we helped Mozilla build Messenger for Firefox

Facebook chat, notifications, and updates that follow you everywhere you go on the web, right in your web browser, is a cool idea. What's even cooler is how Mozilla and Facebook actually built it.

Kinect in a smartphone? Amazing Cirque du Soleil Chrome experiment reveals the future of web browsers

Controlling a browser with your eyes? Playing a game in a web browser on your smartphone by waving your hands in the air? That and more is the future of the web, according to Google.

Black Girls Hack creates #blackhack: a hackathon for black women programmers

What do you do when you can't find a cofounder? Or, when not enough people in your demographic are programmers, much less startup founders?