Does Google Glass Have An Optics Problem? And Does Google Care (Forbes)

It’s hard to judge the success of a product launch before the product is even really out in the market. But in the case of Google GOOG +1.17% Glass, it’s proving to be awfully tempting.

Over the last few days, a meme has emerged: Whatever the faults of Glass as adevice, the backlash it has encountered during its prolonged beta test period is the result of misjudgments made in the campaign around it.Robert Scoble, the influential technology writer and early Glass apostle — after first trying them out, hevowed never to go without them again — has changed his mind. At the Coachella festival last weekend, he elected to go without, and concluded he’d made the right decision after seeing other Glass-wearers shunned.

BLM says 6 cattle died in disputed Nevada roundup (Sfgate)

FILE - In this April 7, 2014 file photo, cattle belonging to Cliven Bundy are rounded up with a helicopter near Bunkerville, Nev. The federal Bureau of Land Management says six cattle died in a roundup of animals it says rancher Cliven Bundy allowed to graze illegally on public land outside his southern Nevada property. The BLM said Tuesday, April 22, 2014, that two of four animals that were euthanized bore Bundy brands.
 Photo: John Locher, APLAS VEGAS (AP) — Six animals died in a federal roundup of cattle that officials say rancher Cliven Bundy allowed to graze illegally for 20 years on public land outside his southern Nevada property, the Bureau of Land Management said Tuesday.Four animals were euthanized, including one cow and one bull that bore Bundy brands, the agency said in a statement. The document was first obtained Monday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The agency didn't say how two other unbranded animals died.