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December 15, 2014, 8:25 AM

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Sony hackers offer to withhold posting emails from specific employees if they write in and ask — Sony Hackers Offer to Withhold Stolen Data From Promised Leak — A group claiming responsibility for the devastating hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment on Sunday offered …

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Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Xiaomi made $56 million profit in 2013: filing — (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology Ltd Co [XTC.UL] made a profit of 347.48 million yuan ($56.15 million) on 26.58 billion yuan ($4.30 billion) in revenue in 2013, Chinese securities filings dated Monday show.

More: The Register, Tech in Asia, Android Central, AppleInsider and The Tech Portal. Tweets: @zacharye

Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:

Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.

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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

Uber pressures regulators by mobilizing riders and hiring vast lobbying network — OUTSIDE IN: A new era of influence — On a Thursday in June, bureaucrats from Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles made their move against Uber Technologies. The fast-growing ride-for-hire company …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @declanm, @howardlindzon, @hunterwalk, @postroz and @tlpatweet

Om Malik:

Why I'm excited about photos, the visual web, computer vision and the far reaching impact of visual sensors — On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words — Photos, photos and more photos! Photos are the atomic unit of social platforms. Photos and visuals are the common language of the Internet.

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Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum:

iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba — Building and maintaining robots is one of the biggest obstacles in robotics research: when you're spending all of your time just figuring out how to get a robot to work and then keeping it working, you end up spending none of your time teaching that robot to do anything useful.

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Chine Labbe / Reuters:

Ahead of taxi protest, France says UberPop to be banned — (Reuters) - The UberPop transport service will be forbidden in France beginning Jan. 1, the French interior ministry said on Monday, the latest regulatory hurdle for the controversial car service company.

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Gordon Mah Ung / PC World:

Alienware Alpha Review: A shockingly good tiny PC and console complement — AT A GLANCE — Hardware has a shelf life like a gallon of milk. If it sits on the store shelf too long, it ends up getting poured down the drain. — That's ultimately the ugly story behind Alienware's Alpha game console.

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Zac Bowden / WinBeta:

Consumer-focused Windows 10 build 9901 leaks with Cortana integration, numerous app and feature updates — First Look at an early version of the Windows 10 Consumer Preview (video) — Microsoft is yet to announce any consumer features which will be available in Windows 10 …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, SuperSite for Windows, Electronista, SuperSite for Windows, SlashGear, WinBeta, Neowin, WinBeta, The Tech Portal, Myce.com, Latest and WinBeta

Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:

Workflow lets you easily chain together and automate hundreds of actions across iOS apps — Workflow pushes the limits of how powerful iOS can be — A new app called Workflow aims to close the divide between the power of OS X and the convenience of iOS.

More: MacStories, TechCrunch, The Verge, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacStories, Seth Clifford, TodaysiPhone.com, SlashGear, MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore, TUAW, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac and BGR

Tweets: @arix, @benbajarin, @viticci, @charlesarthur, @producthunt and @jasonfried

M.G. Siegler / Medium:

As tweeting screenshots of text goes mainstream, maybe it's time for Twitter to officially support posting of longer text snippets — Hacking The Tweet Stream — With pictures of text. Weird, I know. — The single greatest strength of Twitter has always been its simplicity.

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @rjonesy, @m2jr, @stevesi, @mgsiegler, @martinsfp, @joshconstine and @davewiner

TechRadar.com:

Google says Play Store will still sell Nexus 5 through Q1 2015, amid reports production halted — Nexus 5 sales are limited right now, but will continue into early 2015 — UPDATED Nexus 6's little buddy hangs on into next year … Update: Google in the US has reached out to clarify …

More: Gizmodo, JBG News, CNET, Forbes, Christian Today, Know Your Mobile, International Business Times, International Business Times, NDTV Gadgets, GSMArena.com, International Business Times, BGR, Tech Times, Droid Life, MobileSyrup.com, Android Authority, Phandroid and Android Authority

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