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| The Verge: |
Live from Microsoft's next Xbox event — We're live blogging Microsoft's next Xbox announcement. The tagline on the screen is “A New Generation Revealed” and we're inside a tent on Microsoft's soccer pitch. The usual pre-event executive gladhanding is going on, the the steady, mellow beat of some pretty chill music.
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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.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Skype for Xbox with group video calling — At its Xbox launch even today, Microsoft debuted Skype for Xbox, a new version of the communications service that lets you conduct HD video chat with friends using the Kinect's camera. You can engage in group video chats …
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| 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 … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Xbox Live adds gameplay recording and sharing, revamps achievements — Xbox Live has long been a central component to Microsoft's game consoles: it (and Halo 2) almost singlehandedly made the original Xbox a force to be reckoned with, and it's been key to the successes of the Xbox 360.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Microsoft introduces new Kinect with 1080P RGB camera, 30FPS and ‘time of flight’ light sensing — Alongside a new version of its Xbox console today, Microsoft also debuted a new, far more sensitive, version of its Kinect sensor. The new Kinect recognizes both the user and the controller …
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| Reuters: |
Ireland rejects blame for Apple's low tax rate — (Reuters) - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish subsidiaries.
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| Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook strongly defends tax policy at Senate hearing — Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives before testifying to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Investigations Subcommittee about the company's offshore profit shifting and tax avoidance.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Hazards of the Buzzy Startup in Light of Tumblr Buy — Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Puts Spotlight on Highfliers Like Pinterest, Quora With Little Revenue — Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr Inc. is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue.
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| Bruce Upbin / Forbes: |
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon — IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Customers not as happy with iPhone as they were last year — The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple remains on top, but it's declining while Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are rising. — The iPhone 5 — More customers are satisfied with Apple's phones than any other handsets …
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Computerworld, MacRumors, Computerworld, BGR, GeekWire, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, iPhone, Bloomberg and Datamation.com
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400 — An administrative law judge decides that a man leasing a condo broke New York's laws after he rented out part of his home on Airbnb. — New York officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb …
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| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify to Share Top-50 Song Lists — Music-streaming service Spotify AB Tuesday will begin publishing lists of its top 50 most-streamed songs and most-shared songs, embedded with links that allow fans to listen without registering or signing into the service.
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The Next Web, Evolver.fm, T3 News, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Music Ally
| Melissa Grey / Engadget: |
Microsoft launches The Music Room, an interactive TV series on Xbox Live — A day ahead of its hotly anticipated Xbox event, Microsoft has announced a new interactive TV series entitled The Music Room, exclusively on Xbox Live. As a part of Microsoft's drive to beef up Xbox's entertainment content …
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| Markus Spiering / Flickr Blog: |
A better, brighter Flickr — In the beginning, Flickr innovated the way people share and discover photos. Today, we are shifting the photo-sharing landscape again. We're releasing a Flickr that's more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere. — Biggr. A free terabyte of space
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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| Giles Tremlett / Guardian: |
The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’ — Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox — The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis … | Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel CEO shakes up divisions, creates ‘new devices’ unit -source — (Reuters) - Intel Corp new Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich has re-organized key business groups and created a “new devices” unit, according to a source who has seen an internal email, shaking up the world's top chipmaker days after formally assuming control.
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Pandora launches a new ‘Premieres’ station for US users, previewing new albums up to a week before launch — Internet radio and music recommendation service Pandora is rolling out a new service that will offer previews of upcoming album launches in their entirety, up to a week before they go on sale.
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