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November 18, 2012, 12:20 PM

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Nintendo Wii U review — Nintendo's new console is an anomaly in the game console ecosystem, but not for Nintendo. The company that — in just the last decade — popularized stylus-powered gaming, microphone-powered gaming and motion-based gaming, is once again pushing game control inputs forward.

More: CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Kotaku, Gizmodo, Joystiq, ABCNEWS, VentureBeat, TIME, Polygon, Ars Technica, Polygon, Softpedia News, GamesIndustry International, MTV Multiplayer and Mashable!

Tweets: @geoffkeighley, @justinmcelroy, @tcarmody and @aegies

Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:

Nintendo Wii U Goes On Sale in U.S. With Apps, Games and No TV — Nintendo Co., working to prove it can still succeed by marrying its hardware to exclusive software, began selling the Wii U console amid tight supplies and delays in implementing a new TV-viewing service.

More: The Seattle Times

Wall Street Journal:

Nintendo's Wii U Puts Hardware Strategy to the Test

More: Los Angeles Times, Rough Type, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Washington Post, BGR, PC World and Digits. Thanks:@mattlynley

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living — ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world's most successful corporation. — But they did not actually have jobs at Apple.

More: Business Insider, NextBigWhat and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @hunterwalk and @bxchen

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

When the Nerds Go Marching In — How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).

More: New York Times

Rochelle Sharpe / Washington Post:

Many health apps are based on flimsy science at best, and they often do not work — When the iTunes store began offering apps that used cellphone light to cure acne, federal investigators knew that hucksters had found a new spot in cyberspace. — “We realized this could be a medium for mischief …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

That Was Fast: Hollywood Already Browbeat The Republicans Into Retracting Report On Copyright Reform — So, late Friday, we reported on how the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans) had put out a surprisingly awesome report about copyright reform.

More: Techdirt, TorrentFreak, Joho the Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy and The American Conservative. Tweets: @digiphile. See also Mediagazer

Larry Downes / CNET:

Russia demands broad UN role in Net governance, leak reveals — commentary Leaked document from upcoming treaty negotiations reveals Russia wants transfer of authority over Net to national governments. UN's increasingly shrill denials that treaty has anything to do with taking over Net are ringing ever more hollow.

More: TheDomains.com, The ITU Blog, thenewamerican.com and NEWS.com.au

Tweets: @opiapr and @carlesdijous

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

New York Techie Chris Dixon in Talks to Be Next Partner at Andreessen Horowitz — According to sources, well-known New York techie Chris Dixon is in the final stages of discussions to become a partner at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Tweets: @mathewi, @semil and @mediaredef

Mat Honan / Wired:

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore — You have a secret that can ruin your life. — It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you.

More: digitaltrends.com, Quartz and BuzzFeed

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Android 4.2 bug omits December from the People app, makes end-of-year birthdays even less bearable — The launch of Android 4.2 brought a welcome smattering of extra features to the mobile world, but a recently discovered bug omits something slightly important: namely, the month of December.

More: Gizmodo, Android Police, Business Insider, TechRadar.com, Android Authority and TechCrunch

Euan Rocha / Reuters:

RIM to spice BlackBerry 10 AppWorld with local flavors — (Reuters) - Research In Motion is pushing for app quality, not quantity, with its make-or-break BlackBerry 10 devices set for launch on January 30, and targeting applications to customers in various regions.

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International:

Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, The Next Web, The Escapist, Bungie.net, Kotaku, MCV: Home Stream, TechSpot, WebProNews, Polygon, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and Engadget

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