A group of American universities have banded together to offer their campuses high speed computer networks beyond anything that is currently commercially available. The Gig.U project will offer one-gigabit connections to university campuses and their surrounding areas, which the project hopes will draw companies to the areas. The New York Times reports that in the test program in a small area near Case Western, three startups moved to the neighborhood within three months.

After some concern about the privacy issues surrounding Facebook’s face recognition tech, Facebook has begun running ads to teach users how to opt out of the feature. Facebook’s decision to run these ads follows discussion between the company and George Jepsen, Connecticut’s Attorney General. Reuters reports that any user who follows the ad’s instructions to opt out of the facial recognition “Tag Suggestions” program will have their face detection data deleted from Facebook’s systems.

Hulu’s potential buyers may be edging away from a deal after Fox’s decision to limit the streaming to Hulu. Fox has decided to limit the streaming of programs, allowing only paying customers access to next-day streaming and letting non-paying users wait eight days for the programs to stream. Television networks like Fox are upset by the traffic Hulu drains from their own websites. The New York Times reports that ABC may follow Fox’s suit. [Mashable]

The Wikipedia Search Design Contest, run by search engine Greplin, aims to revamp Wikipedia for easier searching and better results. Daniel Gross, the founder of Greplin, told TechCrunch that there’s nothing particularly wrong with Wikipedia, but “that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be infinitely better. The deadline is August 18th, and the prizes include advertising of the winner’s Twitter handle and a trip to see Edward Tufte speak.

Rumors abound about a new Mac notebook in the works: is it a MacBook Air? Is it a Macbook Pro? MacRumors reports that the laptop is already in late-stage testing and is an ultra-thin, 15″ version of a MacBook. The new notebook follows a lot of Apple’s latest moves, from the tech update the newest MacBook Airs received to the new Mac Minis that don’t have optical drives.

Crowdsourcing translation service Smartling has raised $10 million in funding to improve its localized language tech. Smartling’s investors include U.S. Venture Partners, Venrock, First Round Capital and IDG Ventures. Smartling has already gained some big-name customers, including Foursquare and Scribd. [GigaOM]

Is the US government tech savvy enough to maintain .gov websites without traffic crashing them? Well, that depends on how apathetic the voters are. On Monday, President Obama addressed the nation with instructions for citizens to contact their local congress reps. The servers for some of those reps just couldn’t handle the traffic, including the sites of Ohio’s John Boehner, South Carolina’s Jim DeMint, Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann and New York’s Elliot Engel. Mashable compares the effect to a denial of service attack.

Pictures of the unreleased Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone have been leaked by BoyGeniusReport. The Galaxy S II has the model number SGH-I927. The Samsung Galaxy S II specs include Android 2.3.4(Gingerbread) operating system, full QWERTY sliding keyboard, and 8 megapixel rear camera.