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November 20, 2013, 5:30 PM

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Polygon:

Xbox One review: a work in progress with surprisingly strong launch games, solid entertainment hub functionality — Xbox One: The Review — The Xbox 360 that exists in 2013 bears little resemblance to the console that Microsoft launched in 2005. It's so different, in fact …

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4 — Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I've been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now and I wanted to share some thoughts.

Kirk Hamilton / Kotaku:

Xbox One almost reaches Microsoft's ambitious vision for a next-gen console

More: Washington Post, Penny Arcade Report, Gizmodo, Yahoo! News, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Gearburn and The Huffington Post

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube and Xbox Still Working Together Just Fine. YouTube and Windows Phone Still Not Working Together at All.

More: The Verge, Xbox Wire, YouTube Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, WebProNews and VG247

Dan Hsu / VentureBeat:

The Xbox One controller: Projectors, smells (!), and other stuff that didn't make it in (part 1, exclusive)

More: Engadget, GamesIndustry International, Gigaom, BGR, destructoid, Wired.co.uk, Polygon, ExtremeTech and WinBeta

Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:

Hardware Test: Xbox One

Tweets: @fransbouma

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Overview: Here's how Skype will work on the Xbox One

More: BGR, Ars Technica, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Gigaom

Kellex / Droid Life:

Google Wallet Card is Official, Wallet Users Can Sign Up Now for Physical Cards — A few months back, rumors of a physical Google Wallet card surfaced, suggesting that Google would give you a credit/debit card that could access your Google Wallet balance and be used for purchasing goods.

More: Google Commerce, PC Magazine, Engadget, Gigaom, 9to5Google, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, TechCrunch, BestTechie, AndroidGuys, Gotta Be Mobile and Electronista

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

The First Apple Store App For iPad Nails Tablet Shopping With Clever Gesture And Image Focused Interface — Today, Apple is launching its very first Apple Store app for iPad, bringing a gorgeous shopping experience to its tablet in a long-overdue move. The new app arrives just in time for the holidays …

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

End of an era: Once-popular media player Winamp closing down on December 20 — The end of an era is here. AOL announced that the music service Winamp is shutting down on December 20, 2013. This move affects its website, Winamp.com, associated Web services, and also its Winamp Media players.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, Betabeat, PC World, Softpedia News and Lifehacker. Tweets: @tim_stevens

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google Play Newsstand merges Currents, magazines and newspapers on Android today, iOS in 2014 — Google is not particularly great at keeping secrets. Its Nexus devices always leak and peeks at code are constantly revealing features before they're announced.

More: Official Android Blog, Gigaom, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, TechHive, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, iMore, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidGuys, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and Mashable

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

More: The Verge, GeekWire, Gizmodo and bizjournals. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Cupid Media Hack Exposed 42M Passwords — An intrusion at online dating service Cupid Media earlier this year exposed more than 42 million consumer records, including names, email addresses, unencrypted passwords and birthdays, according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, Daily Dot, NBCNews, SC Magazine, Graham Cluley, ITworld.com, Open Source Subnet …, The Register, Guardian and Darknet

Tweets: @jeremiahg and @securityhumor

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Now Sells T-Shirts That Claim Google's Chrome Steals Your Data — Microsoft has started to sell t-shirts, hats, mugs, and sweatshirts that bear slogans from its Scroogled campaign that needles Google as bad on privacy. I confirmed with the company that the clothing line was released today.

More: The Next Web, Marketing Land, BGR, The Verge, 9to5Google, WebProNews and Softpedia News

Tweets: @zpower, @levie and @amir

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Instagram comes to Windows Phone with in-app image capture but no video support — Instagram comes to Windows Phone Store today without in-app image capture or video support (update: image capture is there) — These days, a mobile OS is only as good as its ecosystem, and no company knows this fact more than Microsoft.

More: Instagram Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, The Next Web, TechHive, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, WMPoweruser, Mashable and Windows Phone Central

Tweets: @joebelfiore, @teroterotero, @joebelfiore, @tomwarren, @daniel_rubino and @drpizza

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google's social GPS app Waze now available on Windows Phone

More: ABC News, Engadget, My Nokia Blog, pocketnow.com, The Windows Blog, TechNet Blogs, WMPoweruser and Windows Phone Central

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Jay Z and Ashton Kutcher-Backed “Uber For Planes” Grinds to a Halt — Of all the “Uber for __” propositions, the splashiest by far was Blackjet, the app that purports to help wealthy users book seats on private jets (for a $2,500 annual membership fee). When it launched last October …

James Ball / Guardian:

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons' personal data — • 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material — • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet — • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies

More: Channel 4. Tweets: @ggreenwald

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Snapchat plans an API and experimental monetization with ads, emoticons, stickers, and virtual gifts — EXCLUSIVE: How Snapchat Plans To Make Money — Last week, news broke that a ~2.5 year old company called Snapchat had rejected an all-cash $3 billion takeover offer from Facebook.

Tweets: @joshconstine, @jonrussell and @sanjayraman

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Reverse Engineering Snapchat's Size Is Impossible...But Here Goes

More: Business Insider and Fortune

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Samsung Urges Mistrial Citing Racism in Lawyer's Remark — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) accused Apple Inc.'s lawyer of making a prejudiced remark during closing arguments in a retrial over how much the South Korean company owes the iPhone maker for patent infringement and asked the judge to halt the proceedings.

More: Ars Technica, Gigaom, TUAW, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, 9to5Mac, iClarified, CNET and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @danieleran

Benedict Evans:

Android/ARM has become a new de facto platform for any piece of smart connected electronics — The meaning of really cheap Android — One of the big puzzles in trying to understand the tablet market is data. Apple is pretty much the only large manufacturer giving unit sales …

Tweets: @stevecheney

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Gaming Company Fined $1M for Turning Customers Into Secret Bitcoin Army — A gaming software company has been slapped with a $1 million fine after secretly adding bitcoin mining software to a product update earlier this year. — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) …

More: The Register, PC Magazine, Forbes, TechSpot, CNET, Softpedia News, Daily Dot, Inquirer, Help Net Security, Ars Technica, SlashGear, The Switch, Washington Post, Business Insider, VG247 and PC World

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Hands-on with Logitech's PowerShell Controller, an iOS 7 gamepad that charges your phone — Remember that fuzzy-looking iOS 7 gamepad that leaked back in June? Turns out it's called the Logitech PowerShell Controller + Battery (a mouthful, right?), and it's one of the first iOS 7 certified gamepads on the market.

More: Logitech Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, MacRumors, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, BetaNews, iPhone, Gigaom, iMore, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Kill Screen Daily, Gizmodo, TUAW, Guardian, 9to5Mac, SlashGear and Business Insider

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts — Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. — “We sent an email to users …

More: The Verge, GitHub, Naked Security, Ars Technica, Inquirer, ZDNet, Motherboard and Help Net Security

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