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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sen. Bill Nelson announces NASA's plan to capture asteroid
NASA will use a robotic spaceship to capture an asteroid and bring it closer to the moon. Astronauts will then explore the asteroid in the hopes of developing technology to nudge dangerous asteroids away from Earth.
The Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 crew module is seen in the Operations and Checkout building during a media tour at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. in January. Senate Science and Space subcommittee Chairman Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. says President Barack Obama and NASA are planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon.
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The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth, Sen. Bill Nelson said.
The robotic ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot (450 metric-ton, 7.6-meter) asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, now being developed, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking exploration, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press.
Nelson said this would help?NASA?develop the capability to nudge away a dangerous asteroid if one headed to Earth in the future. It also would be training for a future mission to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, he said.
Nelson, chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, said President Barack Obama is putting $100 million in planning money for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.
"It really is a clever concept," Nelson said in a news conference in Florida, the state where?NASA?launches take place. "Go find your ideal candidate for an asteroid. Go get it robotically and bring it back."
While there are thousands of asteroids that size out there, finding the right one that comes by Earth at just the right time to be captured will not be easy, said Donald Yeomans, who heads?NASA's?Near Earth Object program that monitors close-by asteroids. He said once a suitable rock is found, it would be captured with the space equivalent of "a baggie with a drawstring. You bag it. You attach the solar propulsion module to de-spin it and bring it back to where you want it."
Yeomans said an asteroid of that size is no threat to Earth because it would burn up should it inadvertently enter Earth's atmosphere. The mission as Nelson described is perfectly safe, he said.
The government document said the mission, with no price tag at the moment, would inspire because it "will send humans farther than they have ever been before."
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When 79-year-old Evie Branan suffered a massive stroke six years ago, it left her in a semicomatose state. Branan was unable to eat, speak, or move on her own, and she became a resident of Willowbrook Manor, a long-term care facility in Flint, Michigan. With the help of her family and the caregivers at Willowbrook, [...]
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Arctic nearly free of summer sea ice during first half of 21st century, experts predict
Apr. 12, 2013 ? For scientists studying summer sea ice in the Arctic, it's not a question of "if" there will be nearly ice-free summers, but "when." And two scientists say that "when" is sooner than many thought -- before 2050 and possibly within the next decade or two.
James Overland of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Muyin Wang of the NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington, looked at three methods of predicting when the Arctic will be nearly ice free in the summer. The work was published recently online in the American Geophysical Union publication Geophysical Research Letters.
"Rapid Arctic sea ice loss is probably the most visible indicator of global climate change; it leads to shifts in ecosystems and economic access, and potentially impacts weather throughout the northern hemisphere," said Overland. "Increased physical understanding of rapid Arctic climate shifts and improved models are needed that give a more detailed picture and timing of what to expect so we can better prepare and adapt to such changes. Early loss of Arctic sea ice gives immediacy to the issue of climate change."
"There is no one perfect way to predict summer sea ice loss in the Arctic," said Wang. "So we looked at three approaches that result in widely different dates, but all three suggest nearly sea ice-free summers in the Arctic before the middle of this century."
Overland and Wang emphasized that the term "nearly" ice free is important as some sea ice is expected to remain north of the Canadian Archipelago and Greenland.
- The "trendsetters" approach uses observed sea ice trends. These data show that the total amount of sea ice decreased rapidly over the previous decade. Using those trends, this approach extrapolates to a nearly sea ice-free Arctic by 2020.
- The "stochasters" approach is based on assuming future multiple, but random in time, large sea ice loss events such as those that occurred in 2007 and 2012. This method estimates it would take several more events to reach a nearly sea ice-free state in the summer. Using the likelihood of such events, this approach suggests a nearly sea ice-free Arctic by about 2030 but with large uncertainty in timing.
- The "modelers" approach is based on using the large collection of global climate model results to predict atmosphere, ocean, land, and sea ice conditions over time. These models show the earliest possible loss of sea ice to be around 2040 as greenhouse gas concentrations increase and the Arctic warms. But the median timing of sea ice loss in these models is closer to 2060. There are several reasons to consider that this median timing of sea ice loss in these models may be too slow.
"Some people may interpret this to mean that models are not useful. Quite the opposite," said Overland. "Models are based on chemical and physical climate processes and we need better models for the Arctic as the importance of that region continues to grow."
Taken together, the range among the multiple approaches still suggests that it is very likely that the timing for future sea ice loss will be within the first half of the 21st century, with a possibility of major loss within a decade or two.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Exxon working to remove damaged part of Arkansas oil pipeline
By Kristen Hays
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp was working on Friday to remove the ruptured section of its Arkansas crude oil pipeline, but had no estimate on how long repairs would take or when the line would restart.
Exxon expected to remove the damaged section this week. The company did not have a more definitive timeframe on Friday, spokeswoman Kim Jordan said.
She said the length of the portion being removed from the Pegasus pipeline that ruptured two weeks ago would be determined once excavation to reach it had finished. Exxon said that portion would be sent to an independent, third-party laboratory for metallurgy testing.
However, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, who launched an investigation into the 5,000-barrel oil spill, said earlier this week that the rupture was more than 22 feet long and two inches wide.
McDaniel said his office had retained private Washington D.C. disaster-response firm Witt O'Brien's to analyze independently Exxon's cleanup process.
Some residents evacuated from their neighborhood when the rupture sent crude spilling in yards and streets have the option to return to their homes, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Health said on Friday.
"It's recommended that they go through a little bit of airing out. Their homes have been closed up," the spokesman, Ed Barham, said.
He said the affected residents in the neighborhood in Mayflower, a town about 25 miles north of Little Rock, can continue air monitoring if they so choose after their return.
Exxon said the company was developing a plan to address concerns about long-term values of the affected homes, "up to and including home purchases".
(Reporting by Kristen Hays; Editing by Dale Hudson)
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Driver in Texas bus wreck also drove in '98 crash
A fatality is rolled away as emergency responders works the scene of bush crash on the George Bush Turnpike Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The chartered bus overturned on the busy highway near Dallas on killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A fatality is rolled away as emergency responders works the scene of bush crash on the George Bush Turnpike Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The chartered bus overturned on the busy highway near Dallas on killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Map locates fatal bus crash near Dallas
A charter bus rests on it's side after crashing on the President George Bush Turnpike Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The chartered bus overturned on the busy highway near Dallas killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A charter bus rests on it's side after crashing on the President George Bush Turnpike Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The chartered bus overturned on the busy highway near Dallas killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Emergency responders works the scene of bush crash on the George Bush Turnpike Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The chartered bus overturned on the busy highway near Dallas killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
DALLAS (AP) ? The driver of a bus that swerved off a North Texas highway, leaving two passengers dead and dozens injured, was at the wheel in another fatal accident 15 years ago, but an official Friday downplayed the importance of the earlier accident to the pending investigation.
The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that Loyd Rieve, 65, was driving the tour bus Thursday that veered across the highway in Irving and into the center median with 46 passengers aboard.
The bus was operated by a Mansfield company, Cardinal Coach Line Inc. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred as the group of seniors was heading to an Oklahoma casino.
Court records show that Rieve was driving for another company in 1998 when he struck and killed a man who was trying to render aid at an accident scene on a highway near Dallas.
DPS spokesman Lonny Haschel said authorities will interview Rieve and review his driving record. But Haschel said the 1998 accident will not have any bearing on the investigation into Thursday's wreck.
Rieve remained sedated and in intensive care Friday after suffering three broken ribs, according to his wife, Gail Rieve.
She said her husband, a bus driver for 32 years, remembers little about the accident.
"He came up on the barricade thing," she said. "The next thing he remembers is being in front of the bus."
A Dallas County grand jury declined to indict Rieve on a charge of negligent homicide stemming from the 1998 collision, but Rieve and his employer still faced two civil lawsuits that contended they were negligent.
One lawsuit, filed by the family of the man who was killed, alleged that Central West Motor Stages Inc. of Grand Prairie hired and retained Rieve when it knew or should have known he was unfit and incompetent.
It resulted in a jury finding that the company was negligent for employing Rieve. However, the jury awarded no damages, deciding that the good Samaritan, 22-year-old Chad Rosell of Detroit Lakes, Minn., was largely at fault.
Rosell's attorney, William Dunleavy, said Friday he was stunned when he learned Rieve was the driver of the bus involved in Thursday's accident.
"I thought, 'Why is this guy still driving?'" Dunleavy said.
The other suit, which made similar allegations, was filed by a bus passenger who was badly injured, according to her attorney, George Otstott. The suit resulted in an out-of-court settlement, he said.
"If I owned a bus company and one of my drivers killed somebody, I might leave him in the garage, make him a mechanic," Otstott said. "Then again, that was 15 years ago. He may have a stellar record since then."
Gail Rieve said the bus struck Rosell because he jumped onto the road and the vehicle's brakes were faulty.
"Loyd did everything he could to save to those people on the bus and that young man," she said.
Messages for the company's general manager and the attorney who represented it in the lawsuits weren't immediately returned Friday.
Paula Hahn, 69, and Sue Taylor, 81, were killed in the Thursday accident. The other 44 passengers sustained various injuries, and some remained hospitalized Friday, officials said.
Taylor, known as "Casino Sue," organized trips to casinos all over Oklahoma and Mississippi, complete with treats for riders and prizes for the biggest loser.
"She simply said, 'I'm going to have a bus. Would they pay me?' And they said, 'Yeah, they pay you,'" her daughter, Pam Boynes, said. "And so she just got it going. And it just got bigger and bigger."
Haschel said the magnitude of the investigation ? including interviews with passengers and witnesses, numerous state and federal agencies and an inspection of the bus ? means it will take some time to complete.
"The Department of Public Safety has a lot of boots on the ground doing different pieces of the investigation," he said.
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Associated Press writers David Warren and Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Secret Population of Orangutans Found
A population of 200 of the world's rarest orangutans was found tucked away in the forests of the island of Borneo, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
All subspecies of Bornean orangutans are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. But scientists estimate just 3,000 to 4,500 individuals are left in the subspecies?known as Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus, making them the most severely threatened.
Two-thousand of those live in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Batang Ai National Park and Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, researchers say. The previously unknown population was found by conservationists near the Batang park, in an area covering about 54 square miles (140 square kilometers).
Local communities apparently had been aware of the apes, but no major research projects had been undertaken in the area until February, when conservations with WCS and other groups surveyed the region. They found a total of 995 orangutan nests, including fresh nests that indicated the rare population was recently using the area.
Previously, researchers studying fresh nests left by wild orangutans in Indonesia found they are incredibly complex, made in the crooks of large branches. The orangutans bend and interweave living branches about an inch (3 centimeters) wide to form the nest.
"They are just bent. They can actually stay living and later on you can go back to them and see they are like an archeological artifact of all these strangely bent items," said Roland Ennos of the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, when the study was published last year in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It's very similar to weaving a basket, they have to break the branches, weave them together and form a nice, strong, rigid structure."
The Sarawak state government is now mulling new protections (including new national parks) for the area where the hidden orangutans were documented.
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"Hard work starts now" as Senate takes up gun control
By John Whitesides and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effort by conservative Republicans to block consideration of gun-control legislation prompted by the Newtown school massacre.
The Senate voted 68-31 to open what will likely be weeks of emotional debate on President Barack Obama's proposals to expand background checks for gun buyers, tighten restrictions on gun trafficking and increase funding for school security.
That margin easily cleared the 60-vote hurdle needed to break a Republican filibuster on a bill that has sparked intense lobbying on both sides, including by families of the victims of the December 14 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the powerful gun lobby led by the National Rifle Association.
"The hard work starts now," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said after the procedural vote to open debate, which was watched by some family members of the 20 children and six adults killed by the gunman in Newtown four months ago.
The measure, which would be the first major gun-control legislation to pass Congress since 1994, still faces significant hurdles, including weeks of expected debate in the Senate featuring many amendments that could make the bill unacceptable to senators who now support it.
If it clears the Democratic-led Senate, it would face a tough reception in the Republican-led House of Representatives.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner would not promise a House vote on any gun bill produced by the Senate, saying it probably would be sent to the House Judiciary Committee for review.
"I fully expect that the House will act in some way, shape or form," Boehner told reporters on Thursday. "But to make a blanket commitment without knowing what the underlying bill is, I think, would be irresponsible on my part."
Sixteen Republicans joined 50 Democrats and two independents in voting to open Senate debate on the gun-control measure.
Voting to block debate were 29 Republicans and two Democrats - Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska, who face tough re-election campaigns next year in conservative, gun-friendly states.
The White House said Obama spoke by telephone after the Senate vote to relatives of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
The shootings horrified the country and put gun control at the top of the agenda for the president, who flew 11 family members of the victims to Washington this week to meet with lawmakers and press for action.
The vote to proceed with the bill came a day after a compromise agreement on background checks between prominent defenders of gun rights from each party - Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania.
That agreement - on a plan to expand criminal background checks of gun buyers to include commercial sales made at gun shows and online - was expected to boost bipartisan Senate support for the measure. Background checks are intended to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from buying guns.
'IMPORTANT START'
"It is a really important start," Democratic Senator Christopher Murphy of Connecticut said before Thursday's vote, displaying photos of some of the school shooting victims.
Reid said expanded background checks, a provision that polls show has the support of more than 80 percent of Americans, will be the first amendment offered during debate. It appears to be Obama's best hope for achieving meaningful gun-control legislation.
Obama is unlikely to get other elements of gun control that he has advocated, including a ban on rapid-firing "assault" weapons like the one used in Connecticut and limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines.
Reid said amendments to add those provisions to the bill also would be considered by the Senate. Both amendments appear to have a slim chance of winning on the Senate floor. Republican opponents also will be given an opportunity to offer amendments, many of which likely will seek to weaken or effectively kill the legislation.
"How the amendments play out, I think it's just too early to know," Toomey said on Thursday on MSNBC.
'A CLEAR OVERREACH'
Many Republicans and some Democrats have objected to the gun-control proposals as an infringement on their right to bear arms as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.
"This bill is a clear overreach that will predominantly punish and harass our neighbors, friends and family," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who joined the effort to block debate on the bill.
Some Republicans had feared there could be a political backlash against their party if its members blocked the gun-control bill from even being debated on the Senate floor. Several Republican senators said they welcomed the debate.
"As far as I'm concerned, for me not to be willing to defend the Second Amendment right of Tennesseans on the Senate floor is like joining the Grand Ole Opry and not being willing to sing," Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who was governor of the state in 2007 when a gunman killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in shootings at Virginia Tech University, called the Senate's vote "a big deal."
"There has not been a meaningful discussion on the floor of this body about these kinds of reasonable limitations for a very long time," Kaine said.
Obama has called the day of the Newtown tragedy the worst of his presidency and has made passage of legislation to curb gun violence one of his top domestic policy priorities.
He has given recent speeches trying to build public support for gun control, including an appearance last week in Colorado, scene of two of the deadliest gun massacres in American history, and in Connecticut on Monday.
But the proposals have been strongly opposed by the NRA, which issued a letter to senators on Wednesday night warning that it would include their votes on the Manchin-Toomey amendment and other provisions it opposes in its ratings that it provides to members.
(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey and Richard Cowan; Editing by David Lindsey and Will Dunham)
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Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
What does it mean that Google really is trying to build the Star Trek computer? Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
I first came across Google?s interest in Star Trek back in the summer of 2010. A company spokesman wanted to show me the firm?s rapidly improving visual search and speech-recognition technology. At the time, those features were available only on Android phones, and, back then, Android was getting shellacked by the iPhone. So when the spokesman told me that he regarded the latest Android devices as something like a combination of Star Trek?s tricorder and the USS Enterprise?s computer, I dismissed it as a gimmick to attract media attention for a struggling brand. Not that he was totally wrong?in 2010, asking your phone to search for something, rather than typing in your query, was pretty cool. It just wasn?t Star Trek-cool.
Since then, though, Star Trek has popped up again and again in my interviews with Googlers. Last year, for a piece in which I praised Google?s Voice Search for trouncing Apple?s Siri, I spoke to Scott Huffman, one of the engineering directors on Google?s search team. When I asked him how he pictured voice search evolving, he too invoked the Star Trek computer. ?You would ask, ?Hey Google, where should I have dinner?? ? he told me. ?And it might say, ?Well, you seem to like Italian restaurants, so how about this one?? ? A few weeks ago, I was chatting with Tamar Yehoshua, director of product management on Google?s search. ?Is there a roadmap for how search will look a few years from now?? I asked her. ?Our vision is the Star Trek computer,? she shot back with a smile. ?You can talk to it?it understands you, and it can have a conversation with you.?
Still, I didn?t really put much stock in these references. After all, Google is very likely the nerdiest large company on earth; of course its employees like Star Trek. Then, in March, Amit Singhal, who heads Google?s search rankings team, gave a talk at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival?and Star Trek took center stage. Singhal told the crowd that the original series was one of his favorite all-time shows, and he longed to one day meet William Shatner, ?as long as he doesn?t sell me a hotel room.? Then Singhal added: ?The destiny of [Google?s search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that?s what we are building.?
OK, really? Despite all the interviews in which Star Trek had come up, I?d long assumed that Google?s Star Trek chatter was meant as marketing?that Googlers kept talking about the Star Trek computer because it was an easy reference point, but that the company wasn?t really trying to build a machine as encyclopedic and humanistic as the all-knowing ship?s computer. But Singhal?s talk got me wondering. What if Google?s vision really is to build the Star Trek computer? What if the picture most of us have of search?type in a few keywords, get back links to other sites?is not the way Google thinks about search? What if, when Google?s search engineers go about building the next iteration of the company?s primary product, they really do look to Captain Kirk for inspiration?
So I went to Google to interview some of the people who are working on its search engine. And what I heard floored me. ?The Star Trek computer is not just a metaphor that we use to explain to others what we're building,? Singhal told me. ?It is the ideal that we're aiming to build?the ideal version done realistically.? He added that the search team does refer to Star Trek internally when they?re discussing how to improve the search engine. ?It comes up often,? Singhal said. ?For instance, we might say, ?Captain Kirk never pulled out a keyboard to ask a question.? So in that way it becomes one of the design principles?we see that because the Star Trek computer actively relies on speech, if we want to do that we need to work to push the barrier of speech recognition and machine understanding.?
What does it mean that Google really is trying to build the Star Trek computer? I take it as a cue to stop thinking about Google as a ?search engine.? That term conjures a staid image: a small box on a page in which you type keywords. A search engine has several key problems. First, most of the time it doesn?t give you an answer?it gives you links to an answer. Second, it doesn?t understand natural language; when you search, you?ve got to adopt the search engine?s curious, keyword-laden patois. Third, and perhaps most importantly, a search engine needs for you to ask it questions?it doesn?t pipe in with information when you need it, without your having to ask.
The Star Trek computer worked completely differently. It understood language and was conversational, it gave you answers instead of references to answers, and it anticipated your needs. ?It was the perfect search engine,? Singhal said. ?You could ask it a question and it would tell you exactly the right answer, one right answer?and sometimes it would tell you things you needed to know in advance, before you could ask it.?
Google?s transformation into the Star Trek computer will take years. But it has already made huge leaps toward building such a machine. For lots of searches today, you?ll notice Google giving you more and more direct answers. Type in ?tom cruise height,? for instance, and you?ll see the diminutive star?s digits at the top of the page (5 feet, 7 inches).
Google can do this, in part, because it ?understands? concepts. During the last few years, the company has been compiling what it calls the Knowledge Graph, a database of hundreds of millions of real-world ?objects.? Before the Knowledge Graph, Google would simply have searched for ?tom cruise height? (and related keywords, like ?tall?) on pages around the Web. Now, the engine can accumulate direct knowledge about Tom Cruise and other notable objects. After analyzing all of the information on the Web, Google ?knows? that Tom Cruise is a specific person, that he?s male, that he?s an actor, that he?s had three spouses, that he starred in Risky Business, and that he was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on July 3, 1962. When you ask Google about Tom Cruise, its brain pictures the same thing yours does?not a string of letters, but a close to fully formed picture of a quite short man.
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Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within Next Month, Google Confirms
Today during Google Venture’s “Glass Collective” event, Google told us that it hopes to get the Glass hardware into the hands of developers “within the next month.” The exact date for when Google plans to ship the first publicly available versions of Glass remains unknown, but Google has now confirmed to us that it is now very close to shipping the $1,500 devices to developers. Shipping Glass within the next month, of course, makes sense, given that Google will host its annual I/O developer conference in San Francisco from May 15 to 17. Glass will surely take center stage at this event, and if Google wants to get developers excited about the project and talk about (and launch) Glass’ Mirror API during I/O, it needs to get the hardware into the hands of developers soon. Last year, Google allowed I/O attendees to pre-register for Glass, but the company never really reached out to these developers since — except for sending them glass blocks with their wait-list number engraved on it. Google also recently allowed others to compete for the right to be among the first to buy Glass by posting their reasons for wanting Glass on Twitter and Google+. That project, which was going to bring about 8,000 additional early testers into the Glass community, was heavily criticized because it seemed Google (and the company it partnered with for this) just picked people randomly. Google later rescinded some of these invitations. Users who won the right to buy Glass have to pick it up in person in L.A., San Francisco or New York. It’s not clear if developers will have to do the same, but it would make sense for Google to allow developers to pick their kits up at I/O.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/E_KQBCEk_CI/
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