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November 8, 2013, 9:55 AM

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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 …
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.
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 …
Matier And Ross:
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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords - sources  —  (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
New SD card format is speedy enough for 4K video  —  Outside of a few smartphones, 4K video capture has largely been limited to pro-level hardware; the SD cards in regular cameras frequently can't handle so many pixels at once That won't be a problem in the near future, as the SD Association …
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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