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  • All eyes are on Colorado right now in the wake of the tragic movie theater shooting. Among the many conversations the incident has sparked is a debate about the accessibility of weapons, including assault weapons like the guns used by alleged shooter James Holmes. Technology is making it easier than ever to get these weapons, even without a background check.

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  • This week, Google held a conference — not about the latest features in Google+, or better ways to use your Android phone, but about ways to stop really bad guys. Think drug cartels, organ harvesters, and arms dealers; bad, bad guys. It hopes its technology can make our crime fighters more efficient. Plus, researchers have developed an electronic glove that can teach you to play the piano.

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  • AT&T has announced a new plan called Mobile Share, which lets you connect up to 10 devices on the same account. So if your family has five smartphones and a couple tablets, they could all be on one plan. Phone calls and text messages are unlimited, the data for your emails and videos and Facebook updates, that’s capped — and that’s where AT&T will get you. Plus, according to recent studies, Facebook is losing popularity.

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  • A dozen big name universities have announced they’ll offer free MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses — this fall, coordinated by a company called Coursera. They’re college classes available on the Internet, in subjects ranging from engineering to poetry. Some universities are even offering some college credit for the courses. Plus, plush cat ears that can read your brainwaves and move accordingly. Yes, they’re now available in the U.S.

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  • Yahoo has a new CEO. The hiring of Google executive Marissa Mayer is a bit of a coup for Yahoo, which was everyone’s favorite gateway to the web in 1996, but has stumbled a bit in recent years. You may not know Mayer’s name, but you know her work at Google. Plus, the new version of Microsoft Office is designed to work on PCs and tablets like the upcoming Surface. That means touchscreen compatibility.

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  • The latest Facebook feature: Pages you ‘like’ may be promoted on your friends’ newsfeeds under your name. The problem — you may not have ‘liked’ any of the Page’s specific posts, but those posts would still be sorted under your name. And the only way to stop this from happening is to individually un-like each Page. So beware. Plus, gloves that can translate sign language into text.

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  • Time to change your Yahoo password — a group of hackers were able to grab and post online over 450,000 logins and passwords. Plus, the latest hit on Kickstarter is a video game console named Ouya. The funding goal for Ouya was $950,000 in 30 days. Well, a million bucks was raised in eight hours. It’s now over $4 million. What makes certain Kickstarter projects all the rage?

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  • The City of San Francisco will stop buying computers from Apple. This in response to Apple pulling out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT. It’s an organization that ranks products on how environmentally friendly they are. Many government agencies and large organizations require computer systems they buy to be EPEAT compliant and may soon follow San Francisco’s lead. So Apple is sure to lose sales, but it looks like it still might be able to make money. Plus, a theme song for the Higgs Boson.

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  • It’s been a rough few years for Research In Motion, or RIM, BlackBerry’s parent company — it’s seen layoffs, CEO resignations and BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market slip to just 6 percent. So what does the future hold? Plus, Lady Gaga has launched a social network.

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Every weekday morning, Marketplace Tech demystifies the digital economy. The radio show and podcast explain how tech influences our lives in unexpected ways and provides context for listeners who care about the impact of tech, business and the digital world.

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