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Xbox One review: a work in progress with surprisingly strong launch games, solid entertainment hub functionality — Xbox One: The Review — The Xbox 360 that exists in 2013 bears little resemblance to the console that Microsoft launched in 2005. It's so different, in fact …
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Xbox One almost reaches Microsoft's ambitious vision for a next-gen console — The Xbox One: The Kotaku Review — The Xbox One is a testament to Microsoft's towering ambition. It represents their desire not only to occupy a place in your home entertainment center, but to lumber straight into the center of it.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4 — Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I've been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now and I wanted to share some thoughts.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Wallet Card is Official, Wallet Users Can Sign Up Now for Physical Cards — A few months back, rumors of a physical Google Wallet card surfaced, suggesting that Google would give you a credit/debit card that could access your Google Wallet balance and be used for purchasing goods.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
The First Apple Store App For iPad Nails Tablet Shopping With Clever Gesture And Image Focused Interface — Today, Apple is launching its very first Apple Store app for iPad, bringing a gorgeous shopping experience to its tablet in a long-overdue move. The new app arrives just in time for the holidays …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
End of an era: Once-popular media player Winamp closing down on December 20 — The end of an era is here. AOL announced that the music service Winamp is shutting down on December 20, 2013. This move affects its website, Winamp.com, associated Web services, and also its Winamp Media players.| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Google Play Newsstand merges Currents, magazines and newspapers on Android today, iOS in 2014 — Google is not particularly great at keeping secrets. Its Nexus devices always leak and peeks at code are constantly revealing features before they're announced.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Instagram comes to Windows Phone with in-app image capture but no video support — Instagram comes to Windows Phone Store today without in-app image capture or video support (update: image capture is there) — These days, a mobile OS is only as good as its ecosystem, and no company knows this fact more than Microsoft.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Cupid Media Hack Exposed 42M Passwords — An intrusion at online dating service Cupid Media earlier this year exposed more than 42 million consumer records, including names, email addresses, unencrypted passwords and birthdays, according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Urges Mistrial Citing Racism in Lawyer's Remark — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) accused Apple Inc.'s lawyer of making a prejudiced remark during closing arguments in a retrial over how much the South Korean company owes the iPhone maker for patent infringement and asked the judge to halt the proceedings.
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Gigaom, Ars Technica, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, iClarified, BGR, 9to5Mac, CNET and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @danieleran
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Snapchat plans an API and experimental monetization with ads, emoticons, stickers, and virtual gifts — EXCLUSIVE: How Snapchat Plans To Make Money — Last week, news broke that a ~2.5 year old company called Snapchat had rejected an all-cash $3 billion takeover offer from Facebook.
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US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons' personal data — • 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material — • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet — • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Gaming Company Fined $1M for Turning Customers Into Secret Bitcoin Army — A gaming software company has been slapped with a $1 million fine after secretly adding bitcoin mining software to a product update earlier this year. — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) … | Jim Cowie / Renesys: |
The New Threat: Targeted Internet Traffic Misdirection — Traffic interception has certainly been a hot topic in 2013. The world has been focused on interception carried out the old fashioned way, by getting into the right buildings and listening to the right cables.
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Ars Technica and AllThingsD. Tweets: @johnwilander, @tomchop_, @martinkl, @benwagne_r and @eqe
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Logitech's PowerShell Controller, an iOS 7 gamepad that charges your phone — Remember that fuzzy-looking iOS 7 gamepad that leaked back in June? Turns out it's called the Logitech PowerShell Controller + Battery (a mouthful, right?), and it's one of the first iOS 7 certified gamepads on the market.| Bobby Sudekum / MapBox: |
Mapping service MapBox demos 40-minute drone flight producing 100 acre map for OpenStreetMap — Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap — Last weekend we captured 100 acres of aerial imagery at 4cm resolution. It took less than an hour to fly, and it was easy to publish the imagery …
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Nest Protect: Another Unloved Appliance, Reborn — Tony Fadell! You've just spent 18 years at Apple, designed the iPod, and changed the world! What are you going to do now? — The answer, evidently, was “reinvent the thermostat.” Fadell founded Nest, created the Nest Internet-connected thermostat … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Lytro Raises $40 Million to Keep Its Dream of Changing Photography in Focus — Camera startup Lytro is announcing $40 million in new funding that it said will help it move faster and reach its broader goals of reshaping photography. — The round of funding is being led …
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