PCMag Live 04/15/14: Google Glass on Sale & US Airways Twitter Fail

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PCMag Live for Tuesday, April 15, 2014 is hosted by Alex Colon and Sascha Segan.

In our Headline News segment, Google Glass goes one sale to the general public for one day only. Alex, who's wearing the latest version of Glass on today's show, recounts some of his experiences while walking the streets of New York City while wearing the wearable. Noted Google Glass hater, Sascha Segan, listens on in disgust. Also in the news the FBI database will contain 52 million photos by 2015. This number is up from the 16 million photos currently in the system. The EFF claims 4.3 million of these photos are "for non-criminal purposes" allowing this "next generation Identification" database to mix criminal and non-criminal photos for the first time. Smile for Big Brother, everybody. And lastly, Sascha goes into great detail on how a massive brand, like US Airways can tweet a picture of a naked woman doing unmentionable things with a toy airplane. It's a cautionary tale about mixing your professional and personal lives on work equipment. We wonder if that pic has made it into the FBI's database, too.

Today's Reader Question comes from the comments from yesterday's show on PCMag.com. Randall asks "are the wireless carriers legally liable if they don't offer updates to fix Heartbleed problems on Android phones?"

The One Cool Thing from the PCMag Labs today is the Asus VivoTab Note 8. The biggest selling point of the VivoTab Note 8 is the pressure sensitive stylus. Combine that with a full version of Photoshop, and you have a tablet that's perfect for artists and designers on the go. The Note 8 includes the Intel's Bay Trail mobile chipset, which allows the tablet to run Windows at an acceptable speed. It also sports a 1280-by-800 screen resolution, 2GB of memory and either 32 or 64GB of storage, plus a MicroSD card slot. This 8-inch tablet has a price tag of $299.

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