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LeVar Burton’s secret announcement from WWDC

Happy Friday, nerdosaurus! Twitter was blowing up this week when LeVar Burton made a surprise appearance at WWDC to announce …

Well, we can’t tell you exactly what he’s announcing just yet, but we did get the full story from Mr. Burton himself. Here’s a sneak peek from that interview, as well as a wrap-up from WWDC.

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We’ll be showing you the rest of our full interview with LeVar “Don’t Call Me Geordi” Burton next week.

In the meantime, here’s our full roundup of WWDC news in text and pictures. Also this week, we covered some crazy news about a new version of Google Chrome for Windows 8.

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