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Fact or fool: Can you tell real news from the jokes?

April Fools' Day is flooded with fake technology stories. But when today's tech is so strange, it's hard to tell the gags from real gadgets. Bridget Carey explains with a game of "fact or fool."

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Bridget Carey

When it comes to April Fools' technology jokes, the fool isn't too far from fact.

These days, practically every tech company has a gag announcement for April 1st. But we live in a strange time of experimentation, as companies push boundaries and make us reexamine our principles. Things are changing so fast, even normal tech news can be hard to believe. See if you can tell the difference between the April Fools hoax and real news in this CNET Update:

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