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May 22, 2013, 1:05 AM

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Microsoft:
Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system  —  Blockbuster titles, Steven Spielberg-produced Halo TV series, and exclusive agreements with the NFL transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room.  —  A new vision for the future comes …
Chris Kohler / Wired:
How Xbox One Plans to Fight Sony, Steam, and Everything Else  —  The other day, unable to take it anymore, we sucked it up and ordered HBO.  We needed our Game of Thrones fix immediately.  When the order went through and we were ready to binge-watch, it wasn't our cable box we turned on, but our Xbox.
Peter Rubin / Wired:
Exclusive First Look at Xbox One  —  I don't think I've ever hated a piece of cloth so much in my entire life.  —  It's Monday morning in mid-April, and I'm sitting in a many-couched conference room at Microsoft's campus in Redmond with three other entities: chief product officer Marc Whitten …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Xbox One will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games  —  If you were hoping to play your vast collection of Xbox 360 games on Microsoft's latest creation, we've got a spot of bad news.  Microsoft Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten confirmed to The Verge that the new Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility whatsoever.
David Pierce / The Verge:
The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One  —  “It's what's on the inside that counts” is something of an unofficial mantra of Microsoft's new Xbox One.  The Kinect is perhaps the best example: externally, it's more or less unchanged from its predecessor, but it's actually a very different device.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes  —  webTV returns to Redmond... with a vengeance  —  “For the first time, you and your TV will have a relationship.”  —  That's how Microsoft began the introduction of its new Xbox One today …
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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
Microsoft unveils its next game console, the Xbox One  —  Microsoft debuted the Xbox One this afternoon live from a tent on its Redmond, WA. campus, putting to end months of speculation about the company's next-generation video game console.  Microsoft exec Don Mattrick called it out as an “all-in-one” box.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7  —  In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according to a person familiar with the software.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Tax Bill Overstated to Investors  —  Apple Inc.'s real tax bill isn't as big as the one it reports to its investors.  —  Among the findings of an investigation by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are figures that show Apple's reported taxes substantially exceed the sum it actually pays the U.S. Treasury.
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Latest Google+ redesign comes to the mobile Web: Cover photos, larger tap targets, and card-based posts  —  Google on Tuesday announced a redesign of its Google+ social network for the mobile Web.  The revamp is meant to bring the mobile version of Google+ in line with the last redesign of the service.
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:
Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up  —  Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it.  But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year …
Audrey Drake / IGN:
EA Developing Wii U Games After All  —  Looks like a certain company needs to get its story straight.  —  Oh EA, just make up your mind already, would you?  Last week brought us a slew of controversial comments from the company regarding Nintendo's newest home console, Wii U. First …

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