Amazon workers face ‘increased risk of mental illness’  —  A BBC investigation into a UK-based Amazon warehouse has found conditions that a stress expert said could cause “mental and physical illness”.  —  Professor Michael Marmot was shown secret filming of night shifts involving up to 11 miles …

Shaken NSA Grapples With an Overhaul  —  Agency's Director Offered to Resign Last Summer in Wake of Snowden Leaks  —  WASHINGTON—Shortly after former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself in June as the source of leaked National Security Agency documents, the agency's director …

ZTE Jumps On Smartwatch Bandwagon  —  When Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Gear launch in early September created a hype around the potential market for smartwatches, it was certain that we would soon see cheaper versions from Chinese competitors.  —  Now, ZTE Corp., mainly known …

Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch  —  Whitfield Diffie and Newegg lawyer Alan Albright, outside the federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas.  —  MARSHALL, TX—Newegg's courtroom face-off with patent-licensing giant TQP Development is nearing its end.

Microsoft is fixing Skype messaging, ‘fun things’ planned for Windows Phone 8.1  —  Ever since Microsoft started forcing Windows Live Messenger users over to Skype earlier this year, instant messaging on Windows has been somewhat painful.  If you're a frequent Skype user then you'll be intimately familiar with the problems.

Denmark targets iPhone generation to keep edge in hearing aids  —  (Reuters) - Tiny Denmark, with fewer than 6 million people, supplies half the world's hearing aids, and local makers aim to advance that commanding position as baby boomers and the iPhone generation age.

FDA Tells 23andMe to Stop Marketing DNA Kits; 23andMe Says It's Sorry for Being Slow  —  23andMe's $99 DNA kits can't be advertised for their abilities to detect diseases and conditions without permission from the FDA, the FDA formally told the company on Nov. 22, as reported today by Bloomberg.

Exclusive: Flipboard raising another $50 million  —  Flipboard said in September that it had raised $50 million.  That was only half the story.  —  By Dan Primack and Jessi Hempel  —  FORTUNE — Social news app Flipboard is in final negotiations to raise $50 million in new venture capital funding, Fortune has learned.

Microsoft's device chief sees a future without three versions of Windows  —  Microsoft currently ships Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Phone software on a variety of devices, but it's heading towards a future where just a single version of Windows will exist.

Mayer Confirms Hire of News Star Couric as “Global Anchor,” Calling Her the “Face of Yahoo News”  —  As AllThingsD had reported it would today, Yahoo said it has hired well-known TV news star Katie Couric for a high-profile job to do interviews and more on its homepage, with the decidedly lofty title of “global anchor.”

Intel Said Asking $500 Million for Streaming Pay-TV Unit  —  Intel Corp. (INTC) is asking about $500 million for OnCue, the online pay-TV service that the world's largest chipmaker developed before dialing back its ambitions, according to people with knowledge of the process.

BlackBerry ousts COO and CMO, replaces CFO  —  The high-level shakeups aren't over at BlackBerry just because the company has a new CEO.  The company has just let go of Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear (pictured at left) and Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben (right), both of whom had assumed their roles roughly one year ago.

OneNote for Windows 8.1 now uses optical character recognition to search scanned images  —  It's been about four months since the OneNote app for Windows received a significant update.  Today, though, Microsoft is adding several key features, with the biggest being the ability to scan images and then search them using keywords.

Paul Carr's news site NSFW Corp joins with Silicon Valley-backed PandoDaily  —  After NSFW's financial failure, the tech journalist joins the tech site PandoDaily - ‘the site of record for Silicon Valley’  —  Tech journalist and entrepreneur Paul Carr's last venture was surprisingly old-school.

Google Opens Glass Mirror API To All Developers Even If They Don't Have Glass  —  In the early days of Google Glass, everybody who picked up their unit would also be whitelisted for access to the Mirror API, as Google only wanted developers with access to the actual hardware to develop for the device.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Posts Guide on Converting to Android from iPhone  —  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has posted a multi-step guide on switching from Apple's iPhone to an Android device on his Google+ page today, refreshing the rivalry between the two companies as of late.