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November 20, 2013, 1:15 PM

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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.

Polygon:

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 …

Kirk Hamilton / Kotaku:

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.

More: Gizmodo, Yahoo! News, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, The Huffington Post and Gearburn

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Overview: Here's how Skype will work on the Xbox One

More: VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Ars Technica and Gigaom

Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:

Hardware Test: Xbox One

Tweets: @fransbouma

Dan Hsu / VentureBeat:

The Xbox One controller: Projectors, smells (!), and other stuff that didn't make it in (part 1, exclusive)

More: Engadget, BGR, Gigaom, destructoid, Wired.co.uk, Polygon, ExtremeTech and WinBeta

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox One SmartGlass lets you snap apps from your phone or tablet

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Bing Previews Its Role In Providing Natural Language Voice Search On Xbox One

More: Search Blog, Xbox Wire, everythingiCafe, TechNet Blogs, WebProNews, BetaNews, The Verge and The Next Web

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 …

More: The Next Web, ZDNet, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, The Loop, MacRumors, CNET, Engadget, iMore, The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, everythingiCafe, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, MacNN, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, POPSUGAR, Cult of Mac, MacStories, iClarified and WebProNews

Tweets: @amyduty and @panzer

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.

More: TechCrunch, Official Android Blog, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Gigaom and iDownloadBlog.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

More: The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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.

Tweets: @sanjayraman and @jonrussell

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

The Great Snapchat Mirage

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch and Forbes

Tweets: @amir, @jwherrman and @karaswisher

Thanks:@mattlynley

TechCrunch:

Reverse Engineering Snapchat's Size Is Impossible...But Here Goes

More: TechSpot. Tweets: @jwherrman and @mattzeitlin

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.

More: Ars Technica, Computerworld, Open Source Subnet …, Guardian, Graham Cluley, Motherboard, The Register and Darknet

Tweets: @jeremiahg and @securityhumor

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.

More: Gigaom, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iClarified, BGR, CNET and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @danieleran

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) …

More: Forbes, ZDNet, Help Net Security, CNET, Inquirer, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Switch, Washington Post, Business Insider, VG247, Ars Technica and PC World

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 …

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.

More: 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.

More: Logitech Blog, VentureBeat, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Gigaom, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, iPhone, Guardian, iMore, Gizmodo, TUAW, SlashGear, Business Insider and iPhone Hacks

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Instagram arrives on Windows Phone Store today without in-app image capture or video support — These days, a mobile OS is only as good as its ecosystem, and no company knows this fact more than Microsoft. Its smartphone platform known as Windows Phone has had plenty of growing pains during …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Instagram Blog and Mashable

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Receives Final Approval for ‘Spaceship’ Campus From Cupertino City Council — Apple today received final approval for its Apple Campus 2 project from the Cupertino City Council after gaining a unanimous initial approval back in October. “Go for it,” said Cupertino Mayor Orrin Mahoney …

David Pogue / A Note from Pogue:

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 …

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

F.C.C. Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems — WASHINGTON — Americans could soon be one step closer to getting that videophone they were promised in the 1960s. — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that the agency would begin …

More: FCC.gov, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, DSLreports, Light Reading, CNET, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, AT&T Public Policy Blog, Gizmodo, Gigaom and TheHill

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