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December 15, 2014, 10:25 AM

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
Sony hackers offer to withhold posting emails from specific employees if they write in and ask  —  Sony Hackers Offer to Withhold Stolen Data From Promised Leak  —  A group claiming responsibility for the devastating hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment on Sunday offered …
Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure  —  NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Workflow lets you easily chain together and automate hundreds of actions across iOS apps  —  Workflow pushes the limits of how powerful iOS can be  —  A new app called Workflow aims to close the divide between the power of OS X and the convenience of iOS.
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum:
iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba  —  Building and maintaining robots is one of the biggest obstacles in robotics research: when you're spending all of your time just figuring out how to get a robot to work and then keeping it working, you end up spending none of your time teaching that robot to do anything useful.
Donna Tam / CNET:
This holiday season, more individuals are reselling toys in high demand on Amazon  —  That $119 ‘Frozen’ playset sells for $250 on Amazon.  Let it go?  —  The art of retail artbridge — buying products from brick-and mortar stores and selling them online for a higher price — is alive and well.
Zac Bowden / WinBeta:
Consumer-focused Windows 10 build 9901 leaks with Cortana integration, numerous app and feature updates  —  First Look at an early version of the Windows 10 Consumer Preview (video)  —  Microsoft is yet to announce any consumer features which will be available in Windows 10 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google partners with museums to build apps featuring Street View technology for virtual tours  —  Google Brings Museums To Mobile Users, Armchair Travelers With New Technology Platform  —  Google announced today it's making a platform available to museums that enables them to build mobile applications …

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