Chris and Taylor talk about the Lenovo acquiring Motorola, Facebook Paper, a Gmail outage, hard drive reliability and much more!
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Top News
- Confirmed: Google will sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion via ArsTechnica
- This just in: Paper is the best Facebook app ever via theVerge
- Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes via TechCrunch
- Days-Old Error In Google Search Causes Gmail User To Get Thousands Of Emails via SearchEngineLand
- Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone via NYT
Afterburner
- Twitter redesigns web app to look more like iOS and Android via a browser refresh, story from theVerge
- Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive via theVerge
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 ships in the US February 13th for $850, up for pre-order now via Engadget
- Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK via Google
- Chromecast, Unicorns and the Cable Industr via theDigitalMediaZone
- Pebble appstore to debut Monday February 3rd via SlashGear
- Get notifications from Google Now in Chrome via Google
- Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track Bitcoin with the rest of your finances via Venturebeat
- White House to announce its first-ever Maker Faire via cnet
thEndUsr Stories
- Putting hard drive reliability to the test shows not all disks are equal via Ars Technica
- Apple.com does more to protect your password, study of top 100 sites finds via ArsTechinca
- More Efficient Flight in Formation via EcoGeek
Tip of the Week: Forgotify: The Tool for Discovering Spotify’s 4 Million Unheard Tracks via theAtlantic
App Pick: Octonius Searches & Groups Files From Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive via Lifehacker
Kicker: Exclusive: Watch Steve Jobs’ First Demonstration of the Mac for the Public, Unseen Since 1984 via TheTechnologizer @ Time
Apple’s original Mac can fetch $1,598 on eBay via cnet