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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails sent between January 12th to 21st — Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails — A recent bug in Gmail resulted in some users accidentally deleting emails and reporting others as spam when applying those actions to other messages.

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, Gigaom, 9to5Google, pocketnow.com, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, iLounge, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN. Tweets: @sacca

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue — Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial …

More: VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Computerworld, The Switch, BGR and Electronista

Tweets: @rsingel and @danravicher

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Stephen Lam / Reuters:

Exclusive: Google close to settling EU antitrust investigation - sources — (Reuters) - Google and EU regulators are close to settling a three-year antitrust investigation into the company's suspected anti-competitive behaviour after it offered improved concessions to allay competition concerns, two sources said on Thursday.

More: ZDNet, GeekWire, Search Engine Land, The Register, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News and bizjournals

Steven Musil / CNET:

Obama proposes creation of six new tech manufacturing hubs — President Obama made a push for an expanded high-tech manufacturing base in the US during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, proposing the creation of six new high-tech manufacturing hubs in the US this year.

More: The Loop, Gigaom, AppleInsider, The Switch, Computerworld, 9to5Google, The Verge, The Twitter Blog, MacRumors, App Advice, Electronista, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, The Next Web, Associated Press and National Journal

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Skeptical on Sprint's Possible T-Mobile Deal — Justice Officials Met With Directors Son and Hesse, Signaled Dim View Toward a Merger — Sprint Corp. board members Masayoshi Son and Dan Hesse met recently with Justice Department officials who said they would view a Sprint acquisition …

More: BGR, Ubergizmo, dailywireless.org, Consumerist, TechnoBuffalo, I4U News, CNET, TUAW, The Verge, TheStreet.com, MacRumors, TmoNews and PhoneArena

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Verizon LTE now available in 35 NYC subway stations — Many commuters around the world take underground connectivity for granted at this point, but New Yorkers are still disconnected more often than not while riding the subway, or even just waiting for a train.

More: Transit Wireless, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Electronista and dailywireless.org

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Samsung devours over 60 Carphone Warehouse stores in major European push — Samsung is literally taking over the phone industry — 60 Carphone Warehouse stores across Western European will be converted to dedicated Samsung outlets, according to a press release from the two companies.

More: Carphone Warehouse Group PLC, Digits, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, Electronista, SammyToday, The Next Web, ZDNet, Gigaom, SlashGear, Engadget and Tweakers

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Here Come the Google Glass Videogames (Video) — Games are a rapidly growing category on Android, with the top 200 games on Google Play grossing some $12 million per day worldwide, according to Distimo. — Now, here come the inevitable games for one of Google's much more niche projects, the Google Glass smart glasses.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Internet Evolution, Ubergizmo, Mashable, SlashGear, Engadget and 9to5Google. Tweets: @waltmossberg

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Walmart Begins Testing Online Grocery Shopping With Local Store Pickup Option In Denver — Walmart To Go, the retailer's on-demand shopping service offering home delivery of general merchandise, including in some cases, groceries, is expanding its test in the Denver market today to also include a local pick-up option.

More: GeekWire, VCPOST, Re/code and Techrockies.com

Naoki Hiroshima / Medium:

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username — A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username. — My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy — I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter.

More: Examiner, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, Consumerist, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Tweets: @monkbent, @mat, @panzer, @mathewi, @counternotions, @nzkoz, @harryh, @timhaines, @percival, @davidu and @aulia

Matt Martin / VG247:

Amazon's Android console to launch this year priced below $300 — Retail giant Amazon will launch a dedicated games and entertainment device this year priced below $300. — Running the Android operating system, the system will compete directly with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo …

More: SiliconANGLE, Android Community, Gotta Be Mobile, ITworld.com, Android Authority, Gigaom, Forbes, Digital Trends, BGR, Electronista, Geek.com, TechSpot, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Engadget, Inquirer and AndroidGuys

Joab Jackson / PC World:

Lavabit case highlights legal fuzziness around encryption rules — While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct encrypted email service …

More: BBC, Ars Technica, Naked Security and Inquirer. Tweets: @csoghoian

John E Dunn / Techworld:

Data centres now ‘magnets’ for DDoS attacks, says Arbor report — Bigger, badder but also sneakier — Data centres have become “magnets” for DDoS attacks with many recording a marked rise in incidents during 2013, Arbor Networks' latest Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report has found.

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld, ZDNet and eWeek

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100 — Around 15 months ago, AMD announced that it would be building 64-bit ARM based SoCs for servers in 2014. Less than a month into 2014, AMD made good on its promise and officially announced the Opteron A1100: a 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 based SoC.

More: Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, HotHardware.com News, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and TechSpot

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

After Pledging A “Better Evernote”, Evernote Updates Data Sync, Now 4X Faster — Earlier this month, Evernote — the note-taking app with some 80 million users and over $250 million in funding — took a humble pill after former TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid slammed the company for letting …

More: Evernote Blog, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Evernote Tech Blog, SlashGear, iPhone, PC World, Android Community, Engadget, App Advice and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @dujkan

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Nintendo makes profit on 1.95 million Wii U sales, but predicts dire final quarter — Nintendo made an operating profit of ¥21.7 billion ($210 million) in its crucial fiscal third quarter as the Wii U picked up sales over the holiday shopping period. Net income was ¥9.6 billion ($93 million).

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Engadget, The Next Web, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Joystiq, BGR, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Inquirer, New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire and GamesIndustry International

Alexandra Chang / Popular Mechanics:

New 3D Printer by MarkForged Can Print With Carbon Fiber — Looking for a better way to make racecar parts, Gregory Mark invents a 3D printer that can print in tough, lightweight carbon fiber, the first of its kind. — Gregory Mark co-owns Aeromotions, which builds computer-controlled racecar wings.

More: The Verge, Forbes, Inquirer, ExtremeTech, I4U News, HotHardware.com News, 3ders.org, Ubergizmo, Telegraph, SlashGear, Engadget, Gearburn, Geek.com, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Digital Trends and WebProNews. Tweets: @popmech

Al Kamen / In the Loop:

The NSA has a new, first time ever, privacy officer — The National Security Agency, which has come under a bit of criticism of late for violating the privacy rights of just about everyone on the planet, has named its first- ever person to the newly created job of primary adviser …

More: Lawfare, Computerworld, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Engadget, Business Insider, Softpedia News and Motherboard

Tweets: @washingtonpost, @dangillmor and @digiphile

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Q4 2013 Earnings Slide 6% To $1.27B On EPS Of $0.46, Display Ads Down 6% — Yahoo today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2013, where it reported GAAP revenues of $1.27 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.46. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, revenues were $1.2 billion.

More: Yahoo, VatorNews, ZDNet, Re/code, TechEye, Forbes, Business Insider, AdExchanger, BBC, Quartz, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, GeekWire, ZDNet, Reuters, Digits, Re/code and Mercury News

Tweets: @samfbiddle, @wsjd, @dkberman, @karaswisher and @yahooinc

Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

Alibaba's enormous growth, with $1.8B revenue, $801M profit, helps boost Yahoo's bottom line

More: New York Times, Bloomberg, Digits, Re/code, USA Today and PandoDaily

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