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Microsoft hasn't announced pricing, so anything mentioned here is a guess or a rumor. But what I've read is that Xbox 720 will cost anywhere from $299 to $400.

True, everyone has a camera-enabled smartphone these days, but the vast majority of these people don't walk around as if they're about to take a photo or video of you. The few people who actually do that are annoying and usually told to stop. I think if you're out in public, your expectations of privacy have to be reasonable.

A Berkeley study shows a cross-cultural affinity for matching certain types of music to specific colors.

Researchers will determine if ancient water found 1.5 miles underground in an Ontario cave contains life.

Global warming is taking a toll on the ice atop the world's highest mountain.

The last I heard was that Google hoped to be shipping the commercial version of Glass toward the end of the year. With Google Glass Explorer Edition (the beta version) just now going out to 15,000 early testers and developers, it's too early to tell if Google can ship by year's end (assuming that's the plan).

I do suspect the Facebook phone is bombing, and I'm not surprised. The mobile device market is tough to crack. Not sure it has any larger meaning regarding branded hardware.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh wanted to see whether better math and reading skills at a younger age translated into future socioeconomic success.

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Know what the oldest words on record are? (Hint: They're not BlackBerry or shizzizzle.)

Unless you can get Anonymous on the case, probably not. I'd just turn off the WiFi when you're not using it. If he's truly going nuts with the bandwidth-hogging, that means he's using it a lot. If he finds he can't use it at all for long periods, he might get frustrated enough to get his own WiFi.

I haven't used WiMAX -- and hopefully someone who has will weigh in -- but I found this interesting article about WiMAX vs. LTE: