Apple looks to be stepping up the frequency of OS X Mountain Lion beta updates after initially keeping the pace slow and steady: it just posted a new, unceremoniously titled 12A206J build for developers. What the update fixes in the Developer Preview isn’t clear, but there are still glitches with Fast User Switching, Java applets, sharing menus and Notes syncing with iTunes, among a handful of other showstoppers

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Apple slips out new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion beta, leaves 2007 MacBook Pro in a momentary lurch

Plastic Logic has something of a rollercoaster history, having had to drop the QUE proReader before it even shipped and getting a $700 million cash injection that ultimately swung its attention to Russian schoolchildren . Unfortunately, the UK company’s dreams of a self-branded e-reader are closing down along with its US branch

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Plastic Logic shutters US offices, gets out of making its own e-readers

Google just launched its Knowledge Graph , a tool intended to deliver more accurate information by analyzing the way users search. Of course, with a desire to provide better search results comes a need for improved site-reading capabilties.

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Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step closer to knowing everything

Sony’s newest NEX and DSLR have already graced these pages — albeit in decidedly unofficial fashion — but the time has come for this duo of shooters to be revealed to the world with the blessing of their maker.

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Sony NEX-F3 and A37 cameras hands-on and sample shots

Just in case the world forgot which phone was first with 2GB of RAM, LG has pushed out another press release for its Optimus LTE2 which ships this week in Korea, just as promised.

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LG’s Optimus LTE2 ships this week in Korea, nails down a few more specs

Just when you thought you could go on rooting and switching ROMs with impunity, it turns out you can’t — at least, not if you want to continue enjoying your Google Music account. Watchful eyes at XDA Developers have discovered a snag in Google’s authorization system, which means that not only is there an upper limit of ten devices that can be authorized simultaneously, but there’s also a limit of four de-authorizations per year. Since every time you flash your phone or tablet counts as a new authorization, and since your other devices probably hog a few tickets already, rooters will quickly hit the ten-device limit, at which point they’re going to have to think long and hard about their de-auth strategy

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PSA: Google Music allows four device de-authorizations per year, rooters beware

The idea of a smaller iPad has been rattling around the tech rumor mill for many a month now, but the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen?

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WSJ: Apple moving towards larger iPhone screens

If you’re needing to keep Mike & Mike an arm’s length away at all times, ESPN has refreshed its Radio app to help with just that. Now optimized to the iPad in addition to the iPhone and iPod touch, the software allows you to sort your listening habits by sports, teams and athletes that you follow. The free version offers access to podcasts, the 20-minute SportCenter cycle, and offline listening for on-demand content.

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ESPN Radio app gets a refresh, now properly outfitted for the iPad

With so much information readily available at our fingertips, a multitude of devices to access it from and an increasing outside demand for our divided attention, it’s easy to short-circuit on the productivity front. But there’s a bright spot on the horizon as emerging research out of MIT is poised to help offload the burden shouldered by our overtaxed grey matter with a much needed and intuitive assist from human-robot systems . The Brainput project — as the collaborative effort is known — combines near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with an input system designed to read changes in a user’s brain state and translate those signals into an adaptive multi-tasking interface

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MIT’s Brainput reads your mind to make multi-tasking easier

Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear . To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there’s a lot of secret technology concealed within those sleek lines and Google evidently wants to prevent others from copying their appearance. After all, if people started faking Project Glass, it’d be impossible to tell if we’re being properly scanned or merely checked out.

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Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected