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Is google abusing its dominant position in online advertising and content delivery? On the very day when google participated in a celebration of the free flow of information, a European Commission vice president warned that his office is within weeks of filing a formal Statement of Objections.

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Did you miss Maker Faire Bay Area 2012? Did you go but want to relive the experience a little? Well look no further: we came, we saw, we conquered. As one of our friends acutely observed, you couldn’t throw something this year without hitting a 3D printer. Below you’ll find pictures of said 3D printers, but also unicorns, Tesla coils and yes, even zombies (!) — all lovingly curated from the hundreds of shots we took at the event this past weekend. Craving something with a bit more meat? We’ve made a convenient list of our Maker Faire posts. Once you’re done digesting that, hit the break for our lovely video montage.

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Nintendo will allow Spike TV’s cameras into its E3 press conference next month. The cable network has confirmed that it will carry the presentation, in its entirety with no commercial interruption on June 5 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. MTV2 will simulcast the event. Spike and MTV2 join G4 in tapping into what could be the largest television audience for the E3 press conference circuit to date. Nintendo will arguably the most anticipated because of the Wii U.

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Twitter is, primarily, a text-based microblogging platform. However, sharing images has always been trendy on the network, and has become even more so with the addition of Twitter’s own image hosting service. Twimfeed is a web app that collects Twitter images from your timeline, and displays them in a basic, grid-like interface. Twimfeed retrieves tweeted images from pic.twitter.com, twitpic.com, yfrog.com, and instagr.am (Instagram photos), and lets you view all of them in one location. You can also retweet or navigate directly to Twitter as you scroll through the photos. Each image can be enlarged, and the associated profile can be visited simply by clicking the username. You will also find direct links at the bottom of each image that let you navigate to the original website.

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Nuance, which provides world-class voice recognition technology behind apple’s Siri personal assistant, today announced its entrance into the fast-growing connected cars market.

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Nintendo will allow Spike TV’s cameras into its E3 press conference next month. The cable network has confirmed that it will carry the presentation, in its entirety with no commercial interruption on June 5 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. MTV2 will simulcast the event. Spike and MTV2 join G4 in tapping into what could be the largest television audience for the E3 press conference circuit to date. Nintendo will arguably the most anticipated because of the Wii U.

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Nuance, which provides world-class voice recognition technology behind apple’s Siri personal assistant, today announced its entrance into the fast-growing connected cars market.

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Statistics show that we are watching fewer videos on YouTube. However, we are watching longer videos and subsequently spending more time on the site. YouTube is changing. But it’s also looking over its shoulder at Facebook, which looms as a big threat should it acquire Viddy or Socialcam.

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The command line tool wget lets you retrieve a group of files from FTP and HTTP protocols, it’s a very useful utility for web developers and powerusers to have around because it lets you do things like perform quick and dirty site backups and even mirror websites locally.

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Still rockin’ windows Mobile 6.x? Time to check all your apps for updates one last time. Microsoft has issued a final reminder that, beginning today, the Marketplace for 6.x devices will no longer be available. This means you won’t be able to browse, buy or download apps from your phone via the service. Everything you already have will, of course, work just fine, but if you needed to reinstall something — now is the time to do it. Unless it’s available direct from third party sites, in which case you’ll have a little breathing space. Still, better safe than sorry. [Thanks, nAramRay]

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