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November 21, 2013, 9:25 AM
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld:
Dell Venue 8 Pro review: A Windows 8.1 tablet for the rest of us  —  Dell's new 8-in. tablet offers a fine display and good features at a price that most Windows users can afford.  —  With the new Dell Venue 8 Pro, we're finally seeing a full-blown Windows 8.1 tablet for the masses.
More: ZDNet and The Verge
Justin Edmund / Oh, How Pinteresting!:
Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us  —  About a year ago, we noticed Pinners creating more and more boards around the vacations they're planning, special places near where they live and sites they want to see someday.  In fact, every day people Pin about 1.5 million places …
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Instagram comes to Windows Phone with in-app image capture but no video support
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple's iBeacon Comes To Retailers Via Shopkick's ShopBeacon  —  When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to trigger actions within apps.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress  —  Truly autonomous vehicles won't arrive until at least 2020 and likely later, according to a panel of car company executives and researchers that spoke to Congress this week.  Mike Robinson, vice president of sustainability …
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 …
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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.
Deborah Schoeneman / New York Times:
What's He Really Like?  Check the Lulu App  —  Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
Is the tide turning?  Women filled 60% of tech jobs created this year  —  Could America finally be making progress towards getting more women into the tech industry?  —  New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests we might be.  —  Of the 39,000 jobs created in tech this year, 60 percent of them were filled by women.
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.
TechCrunch:
Dropbox-Rival Box Is Raising $100M In New Funding At A $2B Valuation  —  Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion.  A filing with the State of Delaware was first noticed by VC Experts.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google's Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 now available at T-Mobile locations in the US  —  Google today announced that both its Nexus 5 smartphone and its Nexus 7 tablet are available in T-Mobile locations across the US.  If you prefer to see them online before you head to a store, the links you're looking for are here: Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.
James Ball / Guardian:
US and UK struck secret data pact  —  • 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  —  The phone, internet and email records …

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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

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