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Watch the Crunchies awards show LIVE on TechCrunch from San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday.  | Frederic Lardinois Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending... read more | |  | Gregory Ferenstein | |  | Josh Constine Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you select "what are you doing?", and share an emoticon... read more | | | |  | John Biggs A team of undergraduates at Queens College in New York led by Matt Sconce had a semi-bright idea: they'd make Forever Alone statuettes.... read more | |  | Kim-Mai Cutler | |  | MG Siegler A few days ago, I read Nilay Patel's review of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a Pebble on Kickstarter, and I can't wait to... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington Google Now is probably one of my favorite things about Android, which is why it's great news that a new Chromium build includes a notification center, which,... read more | |  | Gregory Ferenstein Outspoken billionaire, Mark Cuban, is fed up with America's patent system. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington Today the USPTO published an Apple patent application that ventures a little farther afield than most, and describes a mobile banking concept that is truly... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and... read more | | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
