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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 …
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
Your new Xbox One won't do much without the day one patch  —  Imagine it's November 22nd: You've got your shiny new Xbox One from the local games merchant, you've got it home, and it's time to video game.  Aw shucks, the internet is out!  But that's okay, as you've got yourself a physical game disc ready to go.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Xbox, watch TV: inside Microsoft's audacious plan to take over the living room  —  Can the Xbox One finally kickstart the TV revolution?  —  So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began and let his song be heard, taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships …
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.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop may sell Xbox biz, kill Bing, focus on cross-platform Office  —  Microsoft CEO Candidate Elop Said to Mull Windows Shift  —  Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive officer, would consider breaking …
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.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Boost Mobile starts selling the iPhone 5s and 5c today for $200 off for new customers, starting at $349 unsubsidized  —  From 9to5Toys.com:  —  As we've noted on a few occasions, Sprint pre-paid subsidiaryBoost Mobile is now carrying the iPhone for the first time in its history.
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.
Robert McMillan / Wired:
$1.2M Hack Shows Why You Should Never Store Bitcoins on the Internet  —  Here's your digital currency lesson of the day, courtesy of a guy who calls himself TradeFortress: “I don't recommend storing any bitcoins accessible on computers connected to the internet.”  —  That may sound like a paradox.
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 …
Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:
Rochester Optical commits to making custom prescription lenses for Google Glass  —  One of the biggest questions many people had when Google announced Glass was regarding those who wear prescription eyewear.  Surely, Google wouldn't leave out those who need some corrective lenses, right?

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New York Times:
Sources: CNN CEO Mark Thompson told Paramount he would not share oversight of CNN with another exec, as David Ellison weighs whether to put Bari Weiss in charge

Washington Post:
The US Supreme Court paused a lower court order that would have forced ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to reveal a source or pay $800 a day in sanctions

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