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November 23, 2013, 1:05 AM

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Jacob Hoffman-Andrews / Twitter Engineering Blog:

Twitter enables forward secrecy to avoid snooping, joining Google, Mozilla, and Facebook — Forward Secrecy at Twitter — As part of our continuing effort to keep our users' information as secure as possible, we're happy to announce that we recently enabled forward secrecy for traffic on twitter.com …

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Om Malik / Gigaom:

What is Instagram's next big thing? Messaging, perhaps — Instagram, known as a visual communication platform, is looking for way to expand its appeal to its community of 200 million (and growing) users. First it was short-form video and next up is messaging.

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Tweets: @monkbent, @pkafka and @sfiegerman

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Sheryl Sandberg Says Facebook Totally Doesn't Have a Teenager Problem — Perhaps you've heard: Facebook may — or may not — have a teen problem. — It's been the talk of the town since Facebook's last earnings call, when CFO David Ebersman admitted that in the past quarter, the company …

More: Business Insider, CNET, The Technology Chronicles, Computerworld, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, AllFacebook, WebProNews, Softpedia News and hypebot. Thanks:@deaddoe

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Microsoft sells 1 million Xbox One units in its first 24 hours — Microsoft has announced a successful Xbox One launch with over 1 million units sold worldwide in the first 24 hours. That roughly matches Sony's PlayStation 4, which also topped 1 million in its first day.

More: Xbox Wire, TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, GeekWire, CNET, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Engadget, WebProNews, IGN, SlashGear, WinBeta, Polygon and Gematsu

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Turntable.fm Shutting Down So Company Can Focus On Turntable Live Events Platform — Today, Turntable.fm has announced that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there’ experience of live performances.

More: Turntable Official Blog, The Verge, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Valleywag, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gigaom Research, Engadget and Consequence of Sound. Tweets: @stevekovach

New York Times:

N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power — WASHINGTON — Officials at the National Security Agency, intent on maintaining its dominance in intelligence collection, pledged last year to push to expand its surveillance powers, according to a top secret strategy document.

Tweets: @csoghoian, @kgosztola, @mattblaze, @jayrosen_nyu, @rolandparis, @trevortimm and @joshgreenman

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple starts selling unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 5s in the U.S. — Apple today released an unlocked GSM version of the iPhone 5s on its online store for the United States. This version of the iPhone 5s includes the same exact capabilities of the non-unlocked models, but does not include a SIM card.

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Michael McWhertor / Polygon:

id Software founder John Carmack resigns — John Carmack, co-founder and technical director at id Software, has left the company to focus his full-time attention on his role as chief technical officer at Oculus VR, according to a statement from Bethesda Softworks.

More: IGN, Gamasutra, Kotaku, The Verge, Joystiq, Gigaom, Engadget, Ars Technica, iMore, TechCrunch, The Next Web, TechSpot, gameinformer.com, VG247, AllThingsD and The Tech Report

Tweets: @id_aa_carmack and @steveklabnik

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple Stores start selling Retina iPad mini to walk-in customers as regional carriers launch cellular models — Regional carriers are starting to announce availability for cellular models of Apple's new Retina iPad mini just as the company today started offering the device to walk-in customers.

More: MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iLounge, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and Electronista

Wall Street Journal:

Google in Talks to Create Prescription Lenses, Designs for Google Glass — Internet Giant Exploring Ways to Put High-Tech Eyewear in Optometry Offices — Google Inc. 's new computer-powered glasses haven't hit the shelves yet, but already efforts are afoot to keep them from becoming just a niche product for nerds.

More: Glass Almanac, The Register, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Gizmodo, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, Gigaom and BGR

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Apple Designer Jony Ive Explains What Steve Jobs Taught Him About Making Great Products — Apple's design boss Jony Ive and designer Marc Newson curated a collection of products they'll auction off at Sotheby's for U2 singer Bono's AIDs charity, (RED). — There are a bunch of cool things …

More: The Next Web and 9to5Mac

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Sift Raises $2 Million For Its Personalized Shopping App, Now On iPhone — Mobile shopping service Sift has closed on $2 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today, alongside its launch on iPhone. The startup first emerged almost exactly a year ago as a way to leverage shopping data found …

More: VentureBeat and The Next Web

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

More Moolah for MOOCs: Coursera Raises Another $20M — After being founded just last year, online education startup Coursera turned heads this summer when it raised a $43 million Series B round. — Coursera's current business model is selling verified certificates that students have completed its classes.

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