Square now offers Register, a new iPad-based point of sale system for retail merchants who use its card reader.

A parent at a girl’s hockey game in Massachusetts was ejected when he was caught flashing a laser pointer into the eyes of the opposing team’s goalie.

Peter offers tech journos advice for what to write about in the absence of real news.

ThisIsWhyImBroke:

A site run by a few geeky ladies and gentlemen who partake in way too much internet window shopping. As such, our staff has a wide array of cool, fun, useful, and unique products that we showcase on our website.

This web site has way too many things that make you go, “Oh! I’d love to have one of those!” Check out the transparent Pool Table! Thanks to @Chiron1 for the heads up.

Wired:

When it comes to computer security, Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at security consultancy White Hat Security, is paranoid — and for good reason. He’s seen what the bad guys can do. But when he met with Wired at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he said something surprising: He doesn’t use antivirus software.As it turns out, many of his security-minded peers don’t use it either. The reason: If someone is going to try and attack them, they’re likely to use a new technique, one that most antivirus products will miss. “If you asked the average security expert whether they use antivirus or not,” Grossman says “a significant proportion of them do not.”

Mat Honan for Gizmodo: The Windows 8 consumer preview is utterly delightful. But I have a huge suspicion that by the time it ships, it could completely suck. And that’s because the people who make the machines on which it … Continued

Square’s payment services are going to be tested out in a small pilot program in New York City taxicabs.

Dave Eisenberg for BostInno: Terrafugia, based in Woburn [MA] and founded in 2006 by MIT trained aeronautical engineers will debut the Transition® Roadable Aircraft (that’s a street legal airplane to my plebeian friends) at the 2012 New York International Auto … Continued

A new Macworld.com feature will have you taking better pictures of your food.

The Verge:

The self-titled Lytro camera, a digital camera that neither looks nor operates like any camera you’ve ever seen: it measures megarays instead of megapixels, captures light fields instead of light, and lets you focus your pictures after you’ve taken them.We’ve been following the Lytro since its inception, and there’s absolutely no doubt that the camera represents a huge technological achievement, but will you be ditching your DSLR for a Lytro, or even your point-and-shoot? Read the full review to find out.

Animal:

The Department of Homeland Security monitors updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports.

So – don’t use those words.