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November 8, 2013, 2:40 PM

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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.

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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

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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 …

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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.

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.

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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.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter Launches An “Alpha” Testing Program On Android, Invites Users To Give Feedback And Collaborate Directly — In August, Twitter launched a beta testing program on Android which allows users to opt-in to try out early versions of the Twitter application and other unreleased features …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Android Community, Droid Life and Softpedia News

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Gogo Text & Talk lets you send texts and make calls in-flight, using your own phone number (hands-on) — It's not as if in-flight calling is a novel idea: Numerous airlines have given it a shot, and the US government has emphatically put the kibosh on it. Until now, however …

More: GeekWire, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, Yahoo! News, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista

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.

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Reuters:

Exclusive: Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO - sources — (Reuters) - Data storage company Box, one of the most highly anticipated IPO candidates in Silicon Valley, has selected banks to lead a proposed initial public offering that could come in the first half of 2014, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Jonathan Marino / The Deal Pipeline:

Exclusive: Seamless plans IPO - sources — Barely six months after a merger with its biggest competitor, Seamless North America LLC, the New York-based online food delivery service, is charting its course to public markets. — Seamless' management has had discussions about how, and when …

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 …

More: Digital Trends, Guardian, Softpedia News, Motherboard, CNET, Guns.com and The Raw Story

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

GE experimenting with ‘3D painting’ to repair metal parts

More: The Verge, Gigaom, genewscenter.com and Gizmodo

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