


Major Japanese carrier to Samsung’s Tizen OS: Thanks, but no thanks

This is real innovation: Illumina’s new machine could slash cost of sequencing your genome to $1,000

Molecular diagnostics startup QuanDx raises $950K

Google Play Movies & TV now available for iOS devices

Skylanders still ahead of Disney Infinity in 2013 overall — but Minecraft likely beat both

Dropbox closes another $250M, rocketing valuation to $10B

Lyft car in accident in San Francisco, injuring pedestrian

Broken Age: Act 1 tickles your brain but leaves you hungry for more (review)

How a new e-sports alliance hopes to eventually create a FIFA-like federation for competitive gaming

Nintendo’s flailing, but it has options that don’t include firing its CEO (analysis)

Battlefield 4 minor server update causes major bug — PC community has had enough

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#IamSatoshi: How an alliance of Bitcoin traders could catalyze a new digital civilization

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Towards a VC code of conduct

How Blizzard is trying to coax back old World of Warcraft players with the next expansion

How ‘Spirited Away’ inspired an animator to create magic in Minecraft

Microsoft files patent to let you bid for cloud based on performance

This guy’s startup helps Kickstarter projects ship, but his own backers are calling BS

50 startup lessons for 2014: AngelList, KISSmetrics founders help kick off Launch This Year

The top 25 oddball interview questions of 2013 include pizza, cooties, and boats

Google banned over 350M ads in 2013 (infographic)

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo’s woes, Steam Dev Days, and SimCity’s going offline

Obama: NSA will not hold telephone metadata, nor spy on heads of state

Broadcom’s Scott McGregor races Intel to the Internet of things and wearables (interview)

Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 item creators get $10.2 million payout from Valve in 2013

The 20 coolest ways Wii Fit U makes you less of a couch potato

Watch President Obama’s NSA speech here

The DeanBeat: The gaming innovations at CES that go way beyond the consoles

What we can expect from the next HTC One: A better camera, a (slightly) bigger screen, and a March release

Obama to announce reforms to NSA phone data collection program

Why startups were more than just a sideshow at CES

Nintendo stock plummets, but president Satoru Iwata says he won’t resign

PowerUp Toys surpasses $1M raised for its iPhone-controlled paper airplanes

Meet Venturate, German AngelList alternative

Nintendo slashes forecast from a profit to a big loss

Microsoft heads into China with ‘open tech’ office

Software investment hit record levels in 2013 (report)

IBM’s latest weapon for the cloud fight: A massive 15 new data centers

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Startups: Take more money if you do, take more money if you don’t

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