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December 6, 2014, 12:20 PM

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Zac Bowden / WinBeta:
Video demonstrates pre-release version of Cortana running on Windows 10  —  Exclusive: Here's Cortana running on the desktop in Windows 10  —  It's been months since the Windows Technical Preview launched to the public, and we're still yet to see Cortana running on the desktop.
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
One of two plaintiffs named in Apple iPod antitrust case withdrawn while Apple files motion asking for dismissal  —  iPod Lawsuit Down to One Plaintiff  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — A class-action lawsuit against Apple that has been nearly a decade in the making could hinge on a single iPod purchased by a New Jersey woman in 2008.
Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel:
Why tech giants create new programming languages, and how Go and Swift reflect their creators  —  My Computer Language is Better than Yours  —  Go and Swift take another step up the programming-language ladder … Google has Go, first conceived in 2009.  Facebook introduced Hack last spring.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Former Product VP Daniel Graf Leaves Twitter After Demotion  —  Twitter's former head of product Dainel Graf is leaving the company just one month after he was demoted.  —  Graf announced his departure on Twitter Friday afternoon.  He was hired to run Twitter's product team in April …
More: Gigaom, TechCrunch and Seeking AlphaTweets: @danielgraf
Joseph Rose / Oregonian:
Defiant Uber rideshare launches in Portland, with City Hall promising to ‘throw the book’ at drivers  —  Uber says it is no longer willing to wait for the city of Portland to revamp its strict taxi regulations to allow residents to hail and pay for rides with the push of a smartphone button.
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
IBM's Watson Analytics enters public beta  —  Summary:IBM has made it cognitive analytics package more widely available.  —  IBM has launched the public beta of Watson Analytics, its set of cloud-based predictive and analytics tools.  —  The move to public beta for Watson Analytics …
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Sources: HP's Chronowing was manufactured by smartwatch maker Meta  —  Meet the company that's behind HP's smartwatch  —  HP threw a curveball when it announced a surprisingly good-looking smartwatch earlier this year, the Michael Bastian-designed Chronowing.
More: DailyTech
Klint Finley / Wired:
Joyent-led Node.js forked by top contributors into Io.js to shift project toward an open governance model  —  Future of Popular Coding Tool In Doubt After Public Split  —  Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two.

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