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November 27, 2015, 10:25 AM

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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Raspberry Pi unveils the Pi Zero, a $5 computer with 512MB RAM and a 40% faster processor than Raspberry Pi 1, comes free with December's The MagPi magazine  —  Raspberry Pi's latest computer costs just $5  —  Raspberry Pi has just unveiled the Pi Zero, a programmable computer that costs only $5 — about as much as a cup of coffee.
Eli Blumenthal / USA Today:
The best Black Friday tech deals, from TVs to laptops to hoverboards  —  Start downloading retail apps now.  Jefferson Graham reports that some of the best Black Friday deals will be online only.  —  CONNECT  —  NEW YORK— As the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season …
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:
Sony has sold more than 30.2M PlayStation 4 units since launch in November 2013, the fastest selling PlayStation ever  —  Sony's PlayStation 4 Scores More Than 30 Million Sales  —  Console has sold at a faster pace than any other PlayStations, says Sony  —  TOKYO— Sony Corp. said Wednesday …
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:
Huawei announces flagship Mate 8 with 6-inch display, 4000mAh battery, new Kirin 950 SoC, and more, available in China in Q1 2016, starting at $470  —  Huawei Launches The Mate 8, with Kirin 950  —  Today Huawei announces their new flagship, the Mate 8.  We've already had a look …
Chris Pan / Facebook Developers:
Facebook releases SDK for tvOS that lets developers add Facebook login, sharing, and analytics to their Apple TV apps  —  Facebook SDK for tvOS Now Available  —  The new Apple TV brings the App Store to the big screen, and today we're introducing the Facebook SDK for tvOS beta to help …
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
Study of 4000 embedded devices from over 70 vendors shows reused crypto keys leave millions of devices insecure, only 5 vendors known to have fixes on the way  —  ‘Worrying’ 9 Per Cent Of Encrypted Web Vulnerable To Private Key Attacks  —  Getting encryption right can be hard.
Google:
Google on right to be forgotten requests: 1.3M requests received with 42% of them removed, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter most impacted  —  European privacy requests for search removals  —  In a May 2014 ruling, Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, the Court of Justice …

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