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May 23, 2013, 5:10 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear — Microsoft's Xbox One unveil was concentrated on the hardware, entertainment, and gaming, but a controversial aspect to the new console — a rumored always-online requirement — has been left floating amid a sea of confusion.

More: Kotaku, SlashGear, SemiAccurate, CNET, WebProNews, BBC, BGR and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @majornelson

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft's Xbox One?

More: Neowin

Jenna Pitcher / Polygon:

Next-generation Kinect will eventually see a release on Windows PC

More: Digital Trends, PC Gamer and Pocket-lint

Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com:

Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games

More: Polygon, GamesIndustry International, TechHive, GamePolitics blogs, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, Network World, BGR, Gamasutra, Joystiq, Inquirer, Siliconera and SlashGear. Tweets: @eeen

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

More: Consumer Reports News

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Inside Google's Secret Lab — Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup …

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Verge, Engadget, Yahoo! News, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo, bizjournals, 9to5Google and WebProNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Chrome 27 for Android is out: Fullscreen on phones, simplified searching, tab history on tablets, and more — Just a day after releasing Chrome 27 on the desktop, Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 27 for Android, adding fullscreen support on phones and a tab history option on tablets.

More: chrome.blogspot.ca, Google Chrome Releases, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Droid Life, TUAW, CNET, Android Authority and Pocket-lint

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger — After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent

More: TorrentFreak, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad — Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today. In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.

More: AppleInsider, CNET, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, Business Insider, MacRumors, ZDNet and PhoneArena

Tweets: @blagdon, @tomwarren, @spencerchen and @jyarow

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen — Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.

More: VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Engadget and The Verge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets To 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 Markets — No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took …

More: Amazon.com, Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget and The Next Web

Bloomberg:

Lenovo Quarterly Profit Rises 90% on Market Share Gains — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales. — Net income climbed to $126.9 million …

More: The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, Reuters, SlashGear and MarketWatch

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Reporters use Google, find breach, get branded as “hackers” — TerraCom's website offers free cell phones to low income customers; its call center company gave customers' personal data away. — Call it security through absurdity: a pair of telecom firms have branded reporters for Scripps News as …

More: Slate and Techdirt. See also Mediagazer

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million units shipped, new colors coming this summer — Samsung has announced the Galaxy S4 has reached 10 million global channel sales less than a month after its commercial launch. The figure sets a new record for Samsung's line of smartphones …

More: SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, ZDNet, BetaNews, Digits, Engadget, PC World, CNET, TechCrunch, Android Beat, The Next Web, Bloomberg and PhoneArena. Tweets: @bill_gross

Edward Wong / New York Times:

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance — BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes, and monitor cellphone communications, too.

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

AMD details Elite Mobility and mainstream APUs, we run early tests (hands-on) — AMD has been willing to tease its 2013 ultra-mobile APU (accelerated processing unit) strategy through PCs like the Acer Aspire V5, but today it's spilling the beans in earnest.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Digits, VentureBeat, The Register, Inquirer, PC World, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, AnandTech, AnandTech and Electronista

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Code's download option deprecated due to misuse, only existing project downloads to be kept after January 15 — Google on Wednesday announced it is deprecating almost all download options for Project Hosting on Google Code. The company is blaming “increasing misuse” for the move.

More: Softpedia News and Electronista

Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:

Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple — Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.

More: iMore, AppleInsider, Macgasm, Macworld, MacRumors and MacNN

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft updates its YouTube Windows Phone app with some concessions to Google — Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some — but not all — of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.

More: The Verge, Softpedia News, Neowin, The Register, SlashGear, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, Pocketnow and WMPoweruser

Wall Street Journal:

Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board — SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, PC World, CNET and Quartz

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome — The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.

More: LiveSide.net, The Next Web, NevilleHobson.com, The Verge, HotHardware.com News, iDownloadBlog.com, Google Chrome Releases, TechHive, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Google Chrome Blog, Digital Media Wire, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Mobile Magazine and Cult of Mac

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Voice Search Coming Soon to Chrome for iOS

More: The Verge, GigaOM, AppleInsider, MacStories and 9to5Mac

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