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November 26, 2013, 9:50 PM
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Microsoft's Xbox One Costs $90 More to Build Than Sony's PS4, Teardown Shows  —  With two significant game console releases recently, research firm IHS has been working a little extra overtime these days.  After doing surgery on Sony's Playstation 4, the team gave Microsoft's Xbox …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Improved App Store Search Engine Now Corrects For Users' “Fat Finger” Mistakes & Other Misspellings  —  A recent change to Apple's App Store search engine now leads to improved search results for misspelled queries with small typos, we've learned.  In addition, searchers looking for an app they know by name …
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Apple patents Lytro-like refocusable camera suitable for iPhone  —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent for a camera system that uses a microlens adaptor to enable refocusing of an image after the initial shot is taken, much like the Lytro light-field camera.
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Google now inviting developers to buy Glass  —  Now that Google has offered a preview of Glass' SDK and opened the Mirror API to all developers, it has a strong incentive to get its eyewear in the hands of app writers.  Accordingly, the crew in Mountain View is now inviting developers …
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Microsoft Hires ‘Pawn Stars’ to Bash Google Chromebooks  —  Microsoft has enlisted the reality-television series “Pawn Stars” in its ongoing campaign to bash rival Google.  —  An online video ad released Tuesday mimics the plot set up of “Pawn Stars,” which features people toting precious …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Moto G now available unlocked in the US: 8GB for $179 and 16GB for $199, starts shipping on December 2
New York Times:
US senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, and Martin Heinrich: End the NSA dragnet, now  —  End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now  —  WASHINGTON — THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
HP's Q4 Earnings Beat Street and Shares Rise  —  Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported its fourth-quarter results, and they're slightly better than expected, with some bad news mixed in.  —  HP's profit fell by 13 percent from the same period last year, to $1.01 a share.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy @Magicstats  —  Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats.  The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time’ appears to be doing just that.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic  —  Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic after concluding that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications systems, said people familiar with the emerging plans.
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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Google brings Street View inside more than 65 airports and train stations, calls it a ‘first effort’  —  Foreign airports and train stations can often be confusing places to find your way around.  Perhaps with that in mind, Google today launched an interactive map featuring Street Views of over 65 mass transit hubs.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Barnes & Noble's Nook business falls more than 32%  —  Barnes & Noble's Nook business continues to struggle in its competition with Amazon, with revenues in the segment declining more than 32 percent in the company's most recent quarter, according to numbers released this morning.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Touchscreen PCs expected to take 11 percent of 2013 notebook shipments  —  Apple has famously compared convertible Windows tablets to combining a toaster and a refrigerator, but competitors are still increasing their output of touchscreen notebooks in hopes of turning around slumping PC sales.
Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
Xbox One owners with hardware issues get complimentary game  —  Xbox One owners who found themselves on the receiving end of a defective console are being offered a free game for the inconvenience, according to emails from Xbox support representatives.  —  According to an email …

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Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Interviews with 24 people reveal the tense relationship between President Biden and the New York Times, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, and a lack of trust

Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Internal memo: G/O Media sells The Onion to a new Chicago-based firm, Global Tetrahedron, which promises to keep The Onion's staff intact and in Chicago

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