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December 1, 2014, 12:30 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Intel chips will replace Texas Instruments' in a new version of Google Glass coming next year — Google-Glass Deal Thrusts Intel Deeper Into Wearable Tech — Intel Corp. will supply the electronic brains for a new version of Google Inc. 's Glass device expected next year …

More: Android Central. Tweets: @ipaullee and @jbrodkin

Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review:

Interest in Google Glass wanes, but display, lens and battery technologies it has spurred will continue to be developed — Google Glass Is Dead; Long Live Smart Glasses — Even though Google's head-worn computer is going nowhere, the technology is sure to march on.

Tweets: @kantar

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation — Yet Another Big Funding Round for a Big Web Publisher - This Time for Vox Media — Remember when investors didn't want to put money into content? — That was a long time ago!

More: New York Times, TechCrunch and LinkedIn Pulse

Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @jeffweiner, @brianstelter, @bankoff, @peterme, @mathewi, @gaberivera, @rafat, @caseynewton, @reckless, @fierman, @jsnell and @edmundlee

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Chris Messina / Medium:

Chris Messina, former UX designer for Google+: “Google+ is confused and adrift at sea” — Thoughts on Google+ — I f**ked up. So has Google. — It's been over a year since I left Google. Over 450 days, actually. During that time, I joined and left a startup; traveled to Paris (twice).

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @timcohn, @stevesi, @karaswisher, @ralf, @caseynewton, @amitranjan and @counternotions. Thanks:@brianmcc

Emily Steel / New York Times:

Netflix targets international audiences with “Marco Polo”: $90M original series debuts December 12 — How to Build an Empire, the Netflix Way — John Fusco, creator of the Netflix series “Marco Polo,” narrates a scene in which the 13th-century traveler enters the court of Kublai Khan.

More: Business Insider and Washington Post. Tweets: @carr2n and @jyarow. See also Mediagazer

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

BitTorrent to distribute its first original web series “Children of the Machine” next fall — BitTorrent Goes Legit With Its First Original Web Series — Peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent wants to change what the public thinks it does.

More: ITProPortal, TweakTown News, RadioTimes, Guardian and BetaNews

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung's top execs will stay in place for another year, leaving J.K. Shin in charge of mobile — Top Samsung Executives Remain in Roles Amid Management Changes — SEOUL—Samsung Group announced annual management changes at its business units on Monday but said top executives …

More: Reuters

Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum:

Google's first self-driving car and Street View cameras were developed by 510 Systems, a startup the company quietly bought in 2011 — The Unknown Start-up That Built Google's First Self-Driving Car — Two of Google's signature innovations, Street View cameras and self-driving cars …

Tweets: @om

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

European data regulator says “device fingerprinting” requires user consent, like cookies — Europe's next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users — European data protection watchdogs publish guidance on web tracking using device fingerprinting that could result in more ‘I agree’ forms

More: PandoDaily and Out-Law News

Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:

Opera pitches all-you-can-eat app stores to mobile operators — Opera Software thinks users are ready to subscribe to mobile apps just like music and is pitching curated versions of the company's Mobile Store to operators. — With the Opera Subscription Mobile Store …

More: Techie News, policychargingcontrol.com, Mobile World Live, iAfrica.com, Engadget, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Light Reading

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