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November 21, 2013, 10:45 AM

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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 2520 review: a good Windows tablet, not the best for typing  —  The Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet — and it may well be its last.  By the time Nokia is ready to design a follow-up product, the Finnish firm might officially be a part of Microsoft.
Justin Edmund / Oh, How Pinteresting!:
Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us  —  About a year ago, we noticed Pinners creating more and more boards around the vacations they're planning, special places near where they live and sites they want to see someday.  In fact, every day people Pin about 1.5 million places …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Acer founder steps in to save company as CEO and president resign  —  Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to other devices.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Southwest to Be First With Gate-to-Gate Wi-Fi Service  —  Frequent fliers have been quick to note which airlines are allowing passengers to use their electronics during takeoff and landing, but Southwest Airlines is upping the ante.  —  In addition to already allowing use of the gadgets themselves …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple's iBeacon Comes To Retailers Via Shopkick's ShopBeacon  —  When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to trigger actions within apps.
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
A university in Cyprus is the first in the world to accept tuition fees with Bitcoin  —  This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition  —  The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system.  —  The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today …
Deborah Schoeneman / New York Times:
What's He Really Like?  Check the Lulu App  —  Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress  —  Truly autonomous vehicles won't arrive until at least 2020 and likely later, according to a panel of car company executives and researchers that spoke to Congress this week.  Mike Robinson, vice president of sustainability …
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
Is the tide turning?  Women filled 60% of tech jobs created this year  —  Could America finally be making progress towards getting more women into the tech industry?  —  New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests we might be.  —  Of the 39,000 jobs created in tech this year, 60 percent of them were filled by women.
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Zuckerberg, undocumented immigrants ‘hack’ for immigration reform  —  Facebook's CEO and 20 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children take part in a 25-hour ‘hackathon’ to urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.  —  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg calls immigration …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Now Sells T-Shirts That Claim Google's Chrome Steals Your Data  —  Microsoft has started to sell t-shirts, hats, mugs, and sweatshirts that bear slogans from its Scroogled campaign that needles Google as bad on privacy.  I confirmed with the company that the clothing line was released today.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Google's chief internet evangelist says ‘privacy may actually be an anomaly’  —  Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable.  “Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV to Stream 30 Live TV Channels Outside the Home  —  DirecTV is expanding its Internet video service to let subscribers watch more than 30 live TV channels outside the home — including HBO, Showtime, Starz and Food Network — and will deliver 100 live TV in-home streaming channels.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google's Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 now available at T-Mobile locations in the US  —  Google today announced that both its Nexus 5 smartphone and its Nexus 7 tablet are available in T-Mobile locations across the US.  If you prefer to see them online before you head to a store, the links you're looking for are here: Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.

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