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The next Xbox rethinks DRM, Achievements and Xbox Live friends, our sources say — The next Xbox, set to be unveiled during a May 21 event on Microsoft's Redmond-based Xbox campus, will bring with it not just new hardware, but a slew of tweaks to the social aspects of Microsoft's console.
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| Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post: |
Undercover Police Stings Target Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market — SAN FRANCISCO — On a cloudy afternoon in the Tenderloin district, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks slowly along Market Street, stopping to engage people he encounters along the way. He offers a peek at the wares inside … | Robert Scoble / Google+: |
My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price — This week I gave five speeches while wearing it. I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours). I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass. I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.
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| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
Google releases Glass kernel GPL source, lets developers have at it — While our own Tim Stevens is currently adapting to life through Google Glass, developers are going beyond scratching the surface to fiddle with what's inside. Hot on the heels of Jay Freeman rooting Glass … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Enters Iceland's National Parliament After Historic Election Win — Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. — Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel confirms ‘Haswell’ chip intro at Computex — The countdown to the chipmaker's next-generation mainstream processor has begun. — It's official. Intel's fourth-generation core “Haswell” processor will arrive on June 3. Expect a crush of desktops, laptops, convertibles, detachables, and tablets to ensue.
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| Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits: |
Researchers Call Out Twitter Celebrities With Suspicious Followings — Security researchers recently shed a bright light on the multimillion-dollar underground market for fake Twitter followers. Now, they are highlighting what they believe to be some of the market's high-profile clientele.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you — Wikidata, a centralized structured data repository for facts and Wikimedia's first big new project in the last 7 years, is now feeding the foundation's main project, Wikipedia. — The Wikidata project …
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iPad takes top J.D. Power honors for the second time in a row — J.D. Power and Associates released its most recent study on customer satisfaction in the tablet segment this week, with Apple's iPad taking the top prize for the second consecutive time. — Volume 1 of the the J.D. Power …
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Electronista, SlashGear, PhoneArena and The Register
| Ian Steadman / Wired.co.uk: |
Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing … A study of the Bitcoin exchange industry has found that 45 percent of exchanges fail, taking their users' money with them. Those that survive are the ones that handle the most traffic — but they are also the exchanges that suffer the greatest number of cyber attacks.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Bing, Skype, and Xbox rebranding revealed in Microsoft design presentation — At a recent design day event in Norway, Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum and Todd Simmons, creative director at Wolff Olins, held a talk about “re-imagining” Microsoft.
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| Jason Palmer / BBC: |
Google searches predict market moves — Stock averages slumped when Google searches of financially relevant terms rose — The volume of Google searches for finance-related terms may predict moves in markets, research suggests. — As the search volume on generic terms such as “debt” …
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