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Nintendo Wii U review — Nintendo's new console is an anomaly in the game console ecosystem, but not for Nintendo. The company that — in just the last decade — popularized stylus-powered gaming, microphone-powered gaming and motion-based gaming, is once again pushing game control inputs forward.| Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo Wii U Goes On Sale in U.S. With Apps, Games and No TV — Nintendo Co., working to prove it can still succeed by marrying its hardware to exclusive software, began selling the Wii U console amid tight supplies and delays in implementing a new TV-viewing service.| Damon Krukowski / Pitchfork: |
Making Cents — I'm sure each generation of musicians feels they've lived through a time of tremendous change, but the shifts I've witnessed in my relatively short music career— from morphing formats to dissolving business models— do seem extraordinary. The first album I made was originally released … | Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Spotify's plan for rescuing the music industry: let it fall apart first — Spotify, the music-streaming service, just scored a $100 million round of financing. That values the company at $3 billion—but Daniel Ek, its founder, probably isn't all that hung up on the fact that he's now the head … | David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living — ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world's most successful corporation. — But they did not actually have jobs at Apple.| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Yahoo! plots alliance with Facebook in new search deal — Facebook and Yahoo! are in talks about forging an alliance that could spell the end of Yahoo!'s relationship with Microsoft. — Forging an alliance with Yahoo! would allow the social network to take a major leap forward in search| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Android 4.2 bug omits December from the People app, makes end-of-year birthdays even less bearable — The launch of Android 4.2 brought a welcome smattering of extra features to the mobile world, but a recently discovered bug omits something slightly important: namely, the month of December.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo — Republican Study Committee staffer Derek Khanna. — On Friday afternoon, an influential group representing conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives released a shockingly sensible memo calling … | Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
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When the Nerds Go Marching In — How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Megaupload Search Warrant Requests Ignored Massive Non-Infringing Use — In the wake of the January shutdown of Megaupload, many of the site's legitimate users complained that their personal files had been lost. — Among these users are many people in the U.S. military who used the site to share pictures and videos with family.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Apple's iMessage service is currently suffering from systemic downtime — If you are an iMessage user, TNW has bad news: the service is currently suffering from downtime that appears to be more than a little widespread. — According to a very quick perusal of Twitter …
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