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Pre-caffeine tech: So long, and thanks for all the tweets

FILE - This undated file photo originally released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, shows movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel. The Chi...
This undated file photo originally released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, shows movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel.AP file

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

Facebook revealed "Facebook Home," Thursday, a clever little way to overhaul an Android phone ... and turn it into a Facebook phone.

The first phone to come pre-loaded with Facebook's new Home mobile home screen/launcher will be the not-coincidentally named HTC First. AT&T will sell it exclusively starting April 12. The cost? $99.99.

To anyone wondering why Facebook didn't build a Facebook phone, the answer is simple: It didn't need to.

Sex assault, the Internet and a town divided: Young people defend accused high school football players online — to the dismay of adults.

Here's a woman who got arrested for Instagramming.

Here's the Microsoft creative director who "doesn't get" why always-on DRM upsets people, and goes on to mocks rural Internet users.

Here's how Netflix built the new couch potato.

Is Disney about to destroy the Star Wars Expanded Universe altogether or what?!

Meanwhile: Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence As "A Triumph."

So long, Roger Ebert, and thanks for all the tweets.

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