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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with the Xbox One: Kinect, interface, and OS impressions — We give voice controls, multitasking, and even live TV a good workout. — While Microsoft has demonstrated early versions of the Xbox One user interface and base operating system in the past, previous demos …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Xbox One's first wave of TV apps features Netflix, HBO Go, FiOS, NFL and much more — Long gone are the days when a game console merely had its launch lineup of games to worry about — in the modern era we also have to know about other types of entertainment.| Naval / Startup Boy: |
Bitcoin - The Internet of Money — This post is old - I wrote it for Wired, which just published an excerpt in “The Wired World in 2014″ issue, but the article was written in July. Apologies for the obsolescence. — Bitcoin will eventually be recognized as a platform for building new financial services.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Twitter's stock closes at $44.90 a share, up 73 percent on its first day — A more conservative approach than Facebook leads to a big first day of gains — Twitter held its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, opening its stock up for purchase to any interested investor …
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| Rik Myslewski / The Register: |
Nvidia CEO: Android ‘the most disruptive operating system in decades’ — Profitable Tegra brings Android to phones, tablets, all-in-ones, settop boxes, gaming systems — Nvidia cofounder, president, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is a big, big fan of the Android operating system …
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Google barge revealed: Artistic structure with ‘fish fins’ — The barge portion of the Google barge mystery is only half the story — when completed, the full package is envisioned to be an “unprecedented artistic structure,” sporting a dozen or so gigantic sails, to be moored for a month at a time at sites around the bay.
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| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the “Surveillance Internet” — Amid torrent of revelations that the NSA finds mass surveillance easy, the IETF ponders how to harden the Internet. — Will the usually obscure Internet Engineering Task Force - that open-to-anyone group …
| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
New terminal leased for Google's corporate jets to begin construction January at San Jose airport — Google airport in San Jose to break ground in January — Signature Flight Support expects to break ground in January on a new, $82 million jet center at Mineta San Jose International Airport …
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| Jeremy Hsu / IEEE Spectrum: |
First 3-D-Printed Metal Gun Shows Tech Maturity — A 3-D-printed metal gun made by direct metal laser sintering. — The world's first 3-D-printed metal gun aims to prove a point about the reliability of 3-D printing technology. But its makers don't plan on revolutionizing the manufacture …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Nokia's 6-inch Lumia 1520 arrives on AT&T November 22nd for $200, pre-orders open now — After an early leak on Microsoft's store, we've finally got the official launch info for Nokia's Lumia 1520. The first Windows Phone 8 device with a 6-inch, 1080p display goes on sale November 22nd, and costs $200 on contract for AT&T customers.| Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security: |
TrueCrypt to go through a crowdfunded, public security audit — After all the revelations about NSA's spying efforts, and especially after the disclosure of details about its Bullrun program aimed at subverting encryption standards and efforts around the world, the question has been raised … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Path loses head of business and key designer, said to seek more funding at flat valuation — Path Loses Biz Head Amid Rumors Of Over $7M In Funding From Dustin Moskovitz — It's been a long, hard road for Dave Morin's Path, as it has seen lagging growth in a tough ("fruit fly experiments" anyone?) social market.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
A Like Is Not Enough: Facebook Tests Star Ratings Displayed On Pages — Facebook is apparently testing displaying star ratings, out of a possible five in total, on Pages on the desktop version of its site, according to a reliable tip received by TechCrunch this morning.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Glass XE11 update adds commands to search Google Calendar, get directions home, & more — Google today announced its XE11 update for Google Glass and highlighted a few of the new features on its Google+ page for the wearable. New for Google Glass is the ability to search Google Calendar with commands like … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
See What's Inside the PlayStation 4 With These Exclusive Photos — Sony engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori looks over a PlayStation 4 — after taking it apart, piece by piece. — The PlayStation 4 — in one piece — and its controller, the DualShock 4.
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