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Pre-caffeine tech: Princess Avengers, Google spam

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Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

At any moment on a regular weekday in 2011, about 660,000 people across the U.S. were sitting in the drivers seat and talking on their cell phones. Thinkit's getting any better?

Texting while flying is also deadly, at least in this case.

Virgin Mobile is offering $100 to T-Mobile switchers as the prepaid market heats up.

The U.S. Air Force designated six cybertools as weapons.

Here's an infrared camera takes 3-D images from miles away.

Here's how a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com — without Apple’s OK.

The EFF and the ACLU are ganging up on the new CISPA, and talking about it on Reddit.

In other news: Google booted 60,000 crap apps off the Play Store in February — more than ever and a sign it's gotten serious about spam?

This Philadelphia skyscraper is about to turn 'Pong' into "world's largest video game."

Telling Parents to STFU for Fun and Profit! A Q&A with Blair Koenig.

Want to see Disney princesses as Avengers? Here.

Compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook.