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The Galaxy S III is likely the most anticipated Android phone in existence. At least, today it is. Samsung is the king of Android hardware, the Galaxy S II is its most successful phone to date, and a third iteration is only expected to follow in its predecessor’s footsteps. Plus, we weren’t even comforted by the usual pre-announcement leakapalooza — Samsung reportedly kept early units locked in test boxes, which only made that glorious moment of unveiling all the more wonderful. But we’re still waiting and wondering about a potential U.S. release date for what is sure to be Samsung’s most popular phone yet, meaning that getting a peek of the device in the wild is near to impossible until “later this summer”. But as is the case with almost any phone, someone has gotten their hands on a unit of the S III and set up the good ol’ handy cam for our viewing pleasure. http://dlvr.it/1ZTWXy

Social Reality gets Facebook users to learn about causes while they’re gaming. http://dlvr.it/1ZTTkT

Angry Anons may be behind the attack. http://dlvr.it/1ZTTkR

Google will give several device manufacturers early access to future releases of the Android operating system, a new report says. As part of the… http://dlvr.it/1ZTDJq

There’s hope for farsighted iPhone fans. http://dlvr.it/1ZTBx2

It’s not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web. http://dlvr.it/1ZT6cs

Google can now index parts of the Web that weren’t indexable before http://dlvr.it/1ZT6bT

It’s not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web. http://dlvr.it/1ZT6cD

Microsoft is continuing to push the boundaries of HTML5 with a new interactive website for Ridley Scott’s upcoming film _ Prometheus_. For the las… http://dlvr.it/1ZT5pg

Is the Twitter platform about to get a second wind of dedicated apps? In the last few weeks, I’ve seen a handful products that are starting out by filtering out the most relevant news stories, videos and photos from people’s personal streams. Thirst is one of them and it’s coming out with an iPad app today. The company is backed by nearly $1 million from investors including BlueRun Ventures, former Powerset chief operating officer Steve Newcomb and DCM general partner Jason Krikorian. It was started by two recent Berkeley graduates, Anuj Verma and Kunal Modi. Although Thirst is starting out on the Twitter platform, the company is really more about natural language processing technology. The Twitter iPad app is more of a proof of concept around whether its NLP processor works well. Verma says that it’s really difficult to keep up with information shared through Twitter and there has to be a better way of surfacing the most important news. Thirst uses a custom natural language processor to pick out the most important stories around different keywords or subjects like ‘gay marriage’, because of this past week’s big announcement from President Barack Obama in support of it. http://dlvr.it/1ZT4lt

Contactually, the lightweight CRM solution for email users which launched into private beta at the beginning of this year, is today announcing its public debut with a number of new features in tow, as well as $500,000 in angel funding from YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, co-founder of CapLinked Chris Grey, and a re-up from previous investor, 500 Startups. As for the new features, there are quite a few, but the major ones include the launch of “Contactually for Teams,” Microsoft Exchange support, a Gmail plugin, and additional integrations with other services and CRM systems. http://dlvr.it/1ZT4RM

Republicans, unaffiliated voters are less inclined to pay extra for green power. http://dlvr.it/1ZT07L

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie teams up with social media savant and local hero, Newark Mayor Cory Booker in this new YouTube video from the gove… http://dlvr.it/1ZStbc

Verizon wants to sell spectrum it never bothered to use, and buy some more. http://dlvr.it/1ZSryB