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Google puts a ton of work into April Fools’ Day every year. The company puts out so many prank projects that it becomes impossible to believe any announcement it makes during the day.

Here’s a roundup of all the jokes from Google today, including the revolutionary Gmail Blue, Google Nose, and much more.

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No company wants to be left out of the April Fools’ action, so today the popular keyboard application developer SwiftKey has announced its latest application, ‘SwiftKey Tilt’. This new keyboard application is designed to offer a ‘body typing experience’, it works by guiding a pinball across the screen of your phone to spell out words, whilst moving your body – hilarious stuff!

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Major League Baseball is getting ready for the 2013 season by updating its official apps on both Google Play and the App Store. Today MLB.com At Bat was updated with live audio access for At Bat 13 subscribers and other features for various devices.

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Today, Google pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented versions of its patented MapReduce programming model. Google took out an Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, which states that they will not take legal action against distributors and developers of open-source software.

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U.S. carrier US Cellular has announced that it will be accepting Samsung Galaxy S4 pre-orders starting April 16th, ironically the same day as AT&T have scheduled their pre-orders. If you wish to pre-order your device through US Cellular, you can sign up on their website now and they will send you a reminder email nearer the pre-order date with the pre-order offer, alternatively you could visit their website on the 16th for a direct pre-order.

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