Tech 9: Stories From the Week You Need To Read Right Now

Including a new sex offender app for Google Glass, a man who pretended to be a woman on OKCupid.com, and much more.

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It was a dramatic week in the world of tech. A major blow was struck against the future with a court ruling effectively striking down net neutrality while dramatically increasing the control ISPs could exert over content on the Internet, Target was taken down by hackers, and Google spent billions acquiring a thermostat manufacturer for unknown reasons. But while the future was darkening on the horizon, the tech world produced another dizzying week of weird inventions, unfortunate bot incidents, and 500 cloned pigs. Here are all the tech stories from the week you need to read right now.

Michael Thomsen is Complex's tech columnist. He has written for Slate, The Atlantic, The New Inquiry, NewYorker.com, Billboard, and is author of Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men. He tweets often at @mike_thomsen.

Man Gets Arrested for Auto-Generated Google+ Invite to Ex-Girlfriend

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Google Glass Gets a Sex Offender Identification App

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This week a group Google Glass developers made a bid to turn the $1000 fashion accessory into a mainstay of techno vigilantes with an app designed to seek out pedophiles in your field of vision. NameTag lets users aim their Glass camera at anyone on the street, upload a photo, and await for the network's facial recognition software to crosscheck the suspect against a database of millions of known sex offenders. Developed by FacialNetwork.com, the app will theoretically allow access to the person's name, occupation, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter profiles as soon as a match is found. The app directs antagonism toward a universally loathed group as cover to build a loathsome network encouraging people who want to carry mistrust and suspicion with them everywhere they go, while opening up literally anyone who crosses their field of view to unwelcome digital invasions.

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Scientists Build Exoskeleton That Helps Paralyzed Man Walk Again

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A New Website to Help People Come Out on their Social Networks

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Man Pretends to Be Woman on OKCupid and Quits in Horror After Two Hours

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Low-Price Three-Wheel Car Set for 2015 Debut

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China Has Begun Cloning Pigs on an Industrial Scale

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Researchers Track the Friendship Paradox on Facebook

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$1 Million in Pizza Hut Pizzas Were Ordered Using Xbox 360s Last Fall

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