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December 2, 2013, 10:15 AM

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon — Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages …

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Charlie Rose / CBS News:

Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future — Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller …

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Heather Timmons / Quartz:

Amazon drones won't replace the mailman or FedEx woman any time soon — Amazon's new “delivery system,” Amazon Prime Air, promises to get packages to customers “in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles,” and could be in commercial use soon as 2015, the company said Dec. 1.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @kentgoldman and @kentgoldman

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Gets “Significant Bounce” On 5c, 5s iPhones; Android Still Trumps With 71% Share Of All Sales — Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP market research division that provides a rolling check-in on how smartphones are selling in key markets, has put out its latest figures this morning covering the 12 weeks that ended October 31.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Lack of competition, not technological barriers, prevents ISPs from offering gigabit speeds — Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren't selling you gigabit Internet — “Perhaps you should switch to another cable company... oh, that's right, we're the only one in town.” — Viacom

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Windows 7 Handily Bests Windows 8 And 8.1′s Minute Market Share Gains In November — November was not a good month for Microsoft's Windows 8.x operating system according to Net Applications, with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 collectively gaining a mere 0.05% points of market share during the period.

More: CNET, The Register, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Next Web, Softpedia News and WinBeta. Tweets: @johnwilander

Sam Altman:

Bitcoin will only succeed if legitimate transaction volume ramps up — Thoughts on Bitcoin — Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don't know how to weight the probabilities …

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Amazon Kindle Fire commercial mocks the iPad Air with a Jony Ive parody — Amazon is the latest company to take on Apple's distinctive advertising style in its own commercials, this time by pitting the iPad Air against Amazon's 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX using what seems like a thinly veiled parody …

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Guardian:

Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens — • Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what data they can pool about their citizens — • DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Newsstand sucks in iOS 7 — Hamish McKenzie: … The problems with Newsstand go even deeper on the technical and economic side: — Auto-renewing subscriptions, which launched as effectively Newsstand-exclusive, are now permitted in any app that sells content or services that fit within Apple's …

More: iMore. Tweets: @glennf and @robpegoraro

Chris Kohler / Wired:

A Fond Farewell to the Craziest, Longest, Most Eventful Console Generation Ever — He called it the “HD Era.” — On March 9, 2005, the gaming press crowded into a ballroom in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to witness the birth of a new era of game machines.

Tweets: @rozzie, @gameplaydev, @jellyscare and @mudron

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm — In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer …

Tweets: @dalmaer, @mikeolson and @carlzimmer

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:

Obama administration says HealthCare.gov uptime above 90% excluding scheduled maintenance, response time under 1 second — The White House says it met its Obamacare goal. There's still more work ahead. — Today is the day: Vast Majority Sunday! For weeks now, the Obama administration …

More: Gizmodo, NPR, Gigaom, Washington Post and ZDNet

Tweets: @ravenme and @ezraklein

Bloomberg:

Obamacare Website Getting Fixes as Repair Deadline Passes

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