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| May 17, 2013 CNET Weekly News |  |
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How Google, with your help, is overhauling its maps Google Maps users supply critical data that the company uses to customize maps based on the destination selected and to create cinematic fly-bys of popular locations. | One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs Apple wants to roll out its streaming music service this summer, but it's still hammering out details with Sony Music over some very specific terms. | At Google I/O, Larry Page preaches a tech fantasia The CEO charms the Google faithful in an informal Q&A to wrap up the I/O keynote, but his answers cleverly complain about industry backstabbing while promising a utopia driven by tech. | Google engineers: We're trying to fix Android fragmentation During a Google I/O fireside chat, a team of Google Android engineers acknowledged continuing fragmentation issues with Android's software. Also: might Android get dramatically different camera abilities? | Yahoo schedules NYC product event for Monday The Sunnyvale, Calif., company has hastily put together a press event to make a "special" announcement. | The sounds of 'Star Trek': This man makes them happen For Ben Burtt, the "Star Trek Into Darkness" sound designer, nothing was more useful in deciding what the audience should hear than knowing intimately what the original TV show sounded like. | Google Glass spurs privacy questions from Congress Several congressional members send a letter to Google CEO Larry Page about concerns such as whether Google will use facial recognition technology with Glass. | Google beats Apple to it with streaming music service With its $9.99/month service, the tech powerhouse makes its first move into a space already occupied by the likes of Pandora, Spotify, and possibly, Apple. | Windows Blue gets official name: Windows 8.1 Tami Reller, the top Windows marketing and financial exec, tells a J.P. Morgan conference that Windows 8.1 will be free and available later this year. | Google CEO Larry Page discloses why he lost his voice Page, who is recovering from vocal cord paralysis, is funding research related to his condition through the Voice Health Institute. | |  |  | Anne Dujmovic
Associate editor View profile | Email | | Associate editor Anne Dujmovic brings you a wrap-up of the top CNET news stories of the week. |
|  |  | Google Glass testing prescription prototypes (pictures) At a Google I/O 2013 party hosted by Google's Glass division, several employees showed off new prescription versions of the wearable, Internet-enabled headset. See what they look like. |  | Status update: Facebook's first year as a public company (pictures) It's been one year since Facebook's IPO, and it's been a year of ups and downs. Here are a few of the most Liked features from Facebook's first public year. |  | How Google gets all that Street View data Google captures Street View data, but not just for streets. At the Google I/O show, the company showed its data-gathering trike, backpack, submarine, and snowmobile, too. |  | How Google's Ground Truth maps the world (pictures) Google details its detailed program for reconciling multiple sources of data about the world into a unified, accurate mapping system. |  | Billy Idol, robots rock Google I/O party (pictures) Attendees of Google's annual developer show got the traditional concert, this time with classic rocker Billy Idol and a robotic arm strong enough to crush 55-gallon drums. | | | |
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