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May 23, 2013, 1:00 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear — Microsoft's Xbox One unveil was concentrated on the hardware, entertainment, and gaming, but a controversial aspect to the new console — a rumored always-online requirement — has been left floating amid a sea of confusion.

More: Kotaku, BBC, BGR, SemiAccurate, SlashGear, CNET, WebProNews, GamePolitics blogs, HotHardware.com News, Forbes and PC Magazine. Tweets: @majornelson

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft's Xbox One? — Summary: MS CRM on your Xbox One? Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One? — Is it really so crazy to think that users will be able to run Microsoft CRM …

More: Neowin

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

More: Consumer Reports News and BGR

Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com:

Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games

More: Polygon, BGR, GamesIndustry International, Gamasutra, Network World, GamePolitics blogs, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, TechHive, Joystiq, Inquirer, Siliconera, SlashGear, Geek.com, Eurogamer.net and VG247. Tweets: @eeen

Jenna Pitcher / Polygon:

Next-generation Kinect will eventually see a release on Windows PC

More: Shacknews.com, Polygon, Digital Trends, PC Gamer and Pocket-lint

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Inside Google's Secret Lab — Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Yahoo! News, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo, 9to5Google and bizjournals

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad — Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today. In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.

More: ZDNet, GeekWire, AppleInsider, CNET, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and PhoneArena

Tweets: @blagdon, @tomwarren, @spencerchen and @jyarow

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome — The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Voice Search Coming Soon to Chrome for iOS

More: chrome.blogspot.ca, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacStories and 9to5Mac

Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:

Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple — Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.

More: iMore, Macworld, Macgasm, MacRumors and AppleInsider

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft updates its YouTube Windows Phone app with some concessions to Google — Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some — but not all — of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.

More: The Verge, BetaNews, Neowin, The Register, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser and MobileSyrup.com

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

AMD details Elite Mobility and mainstream APUs, we run early tests (hands-on) — AMD has been willing to tease its 2013 ultra-mobile APU (accelerated processing unit) strategy through PCs like the Acer Aspire V5, but today it's spilling the beans in earnest.

More: Digits, VentureBeat, PC World, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, AnandTech and AnandTech

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app — Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …

More: Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, Android Community, Examiner, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, SlashGear, MacRumors, Marketing Land, HotHardware.com News, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile and AndroidHeadlines.com

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen — Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.

More: VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Engadget, Engadget, The Verge and PC World

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation — The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger — After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Code's download option deprecated due to misuse, only existing project downloads to be kept after January 15 — Google on Wednesday announced it is deprecating almost all download options for Project Hosting on Google Code. The company is blaming “increasing misuse” for the move.

More: Electronista

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud — Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet and bizjournals

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas … When Apple announced its intention to manufacture one of its existing Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. last December, the company didn't say which line, or where in the country it planned to build it. Now, some five months later …

More: Fox News, PadGadget, Examiner, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, SlashGear and Mashable

Rachel King / ZDNet:

HP's Whitman reiterates ‘multi-year journey’ amid Q2 revenue miss — Summary: Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter. — Leading up to Hewlett-Packard's second quarter earnings report after the bell on Wednesday, analysts were expecting a mixed bag.

More: Market Wire, Business Insider, AllThingsD, eWeek, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, New York Times, Pocket-lint, ITworld.com, Electronista, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Reuters, Mercury News, USA Today, Quartz and Reuters. Tweets: @liedtkesfc

Wall Street Journal:

Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board — SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.

Edward Wong / New York Times:

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance — BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes, and monitor cellphone communications, too.

Aloysius Low / CNET:

HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company — Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees. Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …

More: SiliconANGLE, Pocketables, PhoneArena and Android Community

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

HTC Can't Stanch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails

More: Yahoo! News. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

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