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November 13, 2013, 10:25 AM
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Polygon:
PlayStation 4 Review  —  In the seven years since the introduction of the PlayStation 3, we've seen our gaming consoles transform into living room hubs through constant evolution and software updates.  Those updates weren't always smooth - though on PS3, they were always happening …
Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer:
Hardware Test: PlayStation 4  —  Digital Foundry's in-depth take on Sony's next-gen console.  —  Digital Foundry goes hands-on with the PS4's retail form-factor, and takes a quick look at the launch version of the user interface.  —  We've been chasing the PlayStation 4 story since January and now, finally, the journey is over.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked  —  Motorola held a special event today to reveal its new Moto G, a spiritual sibling to the Moto X and a way for the Google-owned smartphone maker to bring its vision of a customized mobile device future …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside on How the $179 Moto G Can Change the Low-End Smartphone Game  —  At first sight, Motorola's new Moto G looks a lot like the Moto X. The biggest difference is one you can't see: The price.  —  The Moto G is designed to sell for $179 or less without a contract …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Netflix introduces one unified TV interface to rule them all  —  The streaming video giant turns into a TV channel programmed just for you  —  Watch Netflix instant streaming on your television and you know what content you'll get — but you likely won't know how you'll find it.
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries  —  Google has become so big that sometimes it's difficult to understand just how big it is.  It's on course to do $60 billion in revenue this year, almost all of that from advertising.  But how big is that in terms of the media it competes against for ad dollars?
iFixit:
iPad Mini Retina Display Teardown  —  Lots of new tech ensures the iPad Mini Retina Display is a worthy successor to both the iPad Air and last year's iPad Mini—but will it carry the familial low repairability?  Follow along as we reveal the inner workings of this compact new Retina device.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Retina iPad Mini Has 1.3 GHz A7 Processor With 5X the Performance of the Original Mini
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Verizon admits network faces traffic pressure in big cities  —  The wireless carrier is pouring money into the problem, and a top executive says the issues will dissipate by the end of the year.—Verizon Wireless is feeling the crush of all of those LTE-enabled devices on its network.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
WikiLeaks publishes secret draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty  —  An international trade agreement that would create stricter laws governing digital copyright and freedom of speech has been in the works for a few years now, and today WikiLeaks has published a leaked draft of a recent copy.
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keys  —  A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.  —  That's the gist of the Justice Department's 60-page appellate brief …
More: The Verge.  Tweets: @youranonnews and @anonyops
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google Play for Education is shipping on the Nexus 7 from today, for K-12 students in the US  —  Six months after Google first announced the program in beta, Google Play for Education has officially been unveiled for tablets, as the Internet giant tackles Apple's K-12 market share with cheap apps and tablets.
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Don't expect data on P2P networks to be private, judge rules  —  Defendants claimed that searching for files on their computers violated Fourth Amendment rights  —  There can be no expectation of privacy in data exposed to the Internet over a peer-to-peer file-sharing network …
Aliya Sternstein / Defense One:
Pentagon Preparing for the End of the Blackberry Era  —  The Defense Department, owner of 470,000 BlackBerrys, is distancing itself from the struggling vendor while moving ahead with construction of a departmentwide app store and a system for securing all mobile devices, including the latest iPhones …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users  —  MacRumors user forums have been breached by hackers who may have acquired cryptographically protected passwords belonging to all 860,000 users, one of the top editors of the news website said Tuesday evening.
Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:
China's biggest online video sites form alliance against piracy, collectively sue Baidu for $49 million  —  This afternoon, more than a dozen of China's biggest online video providers including Youku, LeTV, Sohu, and Tencent gathered in Beijing to announce, in the most extravagant way possible …
More: The Verge and Bloomberg.  Thanks:@williswee
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
SmartThings Raises $12.5 Million From Greylock And Highland To Power The Internet Of Things  —  Internet-of-Things startup SmartThings has spent the last year or so building a platform that people can use to connect to an increasingly wide range of devices in their homes.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A US judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets October 6 to close the acquisition

Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that creates refundable tax credits for local news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ

Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The White House once again removes CNN from the press pool traveling with Trump; the judge's order only addressed access to White House grounds

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