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Google marked the birthday of late environmentalist Rachel Carson today and the teabaggers are pulling their hair out in rage. Via Twitchy: Of all the people in the world to commemorate today, people who have done truly great things, this is who Google chose? Today would have been marine biologist and “Silent Spring” author Rachel Carson’s 107th birthday. Unfortunately, thanks …

CNET says Google is working on it: Google has a patent pending for a contact lens with a micro camera and sensors embedded on the surface controlled by blinking, which would enable you to take hands-free pictures and could help the blind navigate the everyday obstacles of the world. Although still apparently hypothetical, the patent combines ideas from Google Glass …

After years of pleas from law enforcement, a coalition of the largest mobile handset makers in the world have agreed to install kill switches on devices manufactured after July 2015. The kill switch feature will allow the phone’s owner to wipe all data and disable the phone.  Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft, along with the five biggest cellular carriers in …

Google Glass is doing a one-day public sale today. Beginning at 9 a.m. ET, Google will sell its wearable computing device, Glass, for $1,500 plus tax. Buyers will also get a sunglasses shade or one of Google’s newly-introduced prescription glasses frames with their purchase. The one-day sale is an expansion of Google’s Glass Explorer program, which began back in 2012. …

Google wants to trademark the word “glass.” Mashable reports that the US Patent Office has a couple of problems with that. The tech giant wants the trademark, of course, for its Google Glass eyewear. It already has the trademark for “Google Glass,” but is seeking an additional trademark for the word “Glass” by itself, styled in the futuristic font Google …

Using a Los Angeles Times database of donations to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign, stats guru Nate Silver has compiled a list of how the staffers of major Silicon Valley tech companies weighed in with their wallets. The list includes Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Cisco Systems, Apple, Google, Sun Microsystems, eBay, Oracle, Yahoo, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Symantec. I limited the …

Keep in mind tomorrow’s date. (Tipped by JMG reader Elroy)

Unlike with the words gay, lesbian, and transgender, Google’s search engine provides no predictive drop-down menu for the word “bisexual.” Sarah Prager, author of a Change.org petition against Google, said the move is another example of “biphobia” and “bi-erasure.” It had about 1,600 signatures on Friday morning. “Finding communities and forums and realizing there are other people like you going …

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Valentine’s Day. Click on the 4EVER YOURS heart for an audio telling of a gay love story. (Tipped by JMG reader Mark)

“I noticed late yesterday that you are once again showing your normal, homo-fascist attitude by shoving a pro-homosexual image in the face of everyone who uses your search engine. Just one problem with your gay-pandering manipulations, Google… Russian law does not prohibit homosexuals from participating in the Olympic sporting events. They are there! It simply prevents them from propagating their …

Via the Guardian: Google has nailed its colours to the mast over Russia’s gay rights record in a new Google doodle, which is dedicated to the Olympic charter. The internet company’s logo was presented in the colours of the rainbow flag and also featured images of Winter Games events. The build-up to the Sochi Games, the opening ceremony of which …

Clip description: Google has purchased the cutting-edge robotics firm which supplies mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The tech giant is keeping secret what it will produce with the acquired technology. Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that designs robots like BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas, is now the eighth robotic company to join Google’s ranks in the last six months, …

Yesterday protesters in San Francisco blocked a shuttle bus for Google employees and demanded that the company pay $1B in fines for using the city’s infrastructure without paying. The buses have, for some, become a symbol of tech-fueled gentrification, economic inequality and soaring housing prices in the city. The bus, which was headed to Google’s Mountain View campus, had riders …

Via CNN: Google-owned Motorola Mobility has filed for a patent, published last week, for a system “that comprises an electronic skin tattoo capable of being applied to a throat region of a body.” The patent says the tattoo would communicate with smartphones, gaming devices, tablets and wearable tech like Google Glass via a Bluetooth-style connection and would include a microphone …

Edith Head was born 116 years ago today. She won eight Oscars for costume design.

Inspired by a similar campaign about women’s rights, the United Nation’s human rights office has launched an ad campaign which notes the most common suggestions when Google searches are made on LGBT-related topics. More results are at the link.

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch appears to have accidentally published a tweet that was meant to be a private message. The interwebs are buzzing about its meaning. (Eric Schmidt is the chairman of Google.)

Tech sites are buzzing today after some Google chat users found that their messages were going to the wrong people. CNN reports that some cube dwellers found themselves copied on the private chats of their bosses. Google has acknowledged a problem with its Talk service that misrouted messages from users to unintended recipients. At 10:30am EDT today, Google reported on …