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  <p>Microsoft revealed today that the company has sold 40 million licences of Windows 8 to date. Tami Reller, the Windows Chief Marketing and Financial Officer, revealed the figure during a speech at Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference. The sales numbers come shortly after Microsoft revealed it had sold <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/30/3576512/windows-8-upgrade-sales-four-million">four million upgrade copies</a> of Windows 8 in the first few days of sales in October. Microsoft claims "Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/16/3655882/windows-8-pc-sales-reportedly-well-below-microsofts-internal-projections#">Recent reports</a> have suggested that Windows 8 PC sales are "well below Microsoft's internal projections," but these latest figures appear to suggest that Windows 8 licences are fairing ok. <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/20/3256222/registration-14-99-windows-8-upgrade-now-open">Promotions</a> on Windows 8 <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/12/3492886/windows-8-OEM-pricing-hardware-pre-order">upgrade copies</a> appear to be helping along early sales. In...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:10:"Tom Warren";}i:1;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:40:50Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:40:50Z";s:5:"title";s:72:"Palantir's terrorist-tracking technology used for Hurricane Sandy relief";s:12:"atom_content";s:1359:"
  
  
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  <p>Disaster recovery groups still have a lot of work to do in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and one of these volunteer organizations has optimized its efforts using software from a company called Palantir, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-27/from-wartime-technology-comes-hurricane-relief"><i>Bloomberg Businessweek</i> reports</a>. The software allows relief coordinators from Team Rubicon to track their volunteers using GPS, upload geo-tagged photos for reference, and determine which areas are most in need of assistance using demographic, census, and poverty data combined with damage reports.  </p>
<p>Palantir &mdash; aptly named after the seeing stones in <i>Lord of the Rings</i> &mdash; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html">gained prominence in the past several years</a> not for designing disaster-relief systems, but providing US intelligence with software to track ally troops and suspected...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"Kimber Streams";}i:2;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:13:57Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:13:57Z";s:5:"title";s:82:"US Government uses virtual 'CyberCity' as a training ground against online attacks";s:12:"atom_content";s:1071:"
  
  
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  <p>US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently said that criminal attacks through the internet "could be as destructive as the terrorist attack on 9/11" &mdash; so the government is training a squad of hackers to defend against cyber-attacks through CyberCity, a virtual town complete with some 15,000 virtual people. Those virtual citizens all have email accounts, work passwords, bank accounts, and so forth, while the city itself has power plants with employees, hospitals with patients, and even coffee shops with unsecured Wi-Fi. The goal is to simulate a real-life internet landscape for a town and have the government agents defend it against attacks &mdash; for example, one scenario involves taking control of a train carrying weapons of mass...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:15:"Nathan Ingraham";}i:3;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:13:06Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:13:06Z";s:5:"title";s:88:"Microsoft sells 750,000 Xbox consoles on Black Friday weekend after seven years of sales";s:12:"atom_content";s:1369:"
  
  
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  <p>Microsoft revealed today that it has sold more than 750,000 Xbox 360 consoles in the US on Black Friday weekend. Despite being seven years old, the Xbox 360's strong Black Friday sales follow 22 months as the top selling console in the US, according to NPD figures. While the sales are impressive, Microsoft managed to sell more than 960,000 consoles in the US <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/11/29/xbox-360-sells-nearly-1m-consoles-in-biggest-week-in-xbox-history.aspx">during the week of Black Friday last year</a>, with 800,000 sold within a period of 24 hours.</p>
<p>Microsoft now faces increased competition from Nintendo's Wii U console, which debuted in the US earlier this month. The <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3693408/wii-u-sales-surpass-400000-in-launch-week-nintendo-says-console-sold">Wii U sales surpassed 400,000</a> during its launch week, with the original Wii still commanding 300,000 sales. The surprising spike in sales for the Xbox 360 comes shortly after...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:10:"Tom Warren";}i:4;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:02:16Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T20:02:16Z";s:5:"title";s:53:"The Verge Mobile Show, live at 4:30PM ET / 9:30PM GMT";s:12:"atom_content";s:923:"
  
  
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  <p>With the shifting meaning of "4G" in the United States still up for grabs, we here at The Verge Mobile Show feel it's important to clarify our position and definitively present our take on the term. It stands for "Four Gentlemen," which is a remarkable coincidence because that's almost exactly what this week's broadcast will present. We are still awaiting word from standards organizations about what constitutes a "gentleman" and there's no guarantee any of our hosts will meet the spec, but in the absence of consensus we're moving forward with our definition. Tune in!</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:11:"Dieter Bohn";}i:5;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:53:38Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:53:38Z";s:5:"title";s:92:"Rep. Darrell Issa introduces bill on Reddit that would prevent new internet laws for 2 years";s:12:"atom_content";s:1288:"
  
  
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  <p>Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) was one of the most outspoken <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/16/2641290/stop-online-piracy-act-committee-vote-delayed-as-controversy-mounts">opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act</a>, and since that legislative battle, the California lawmaker has ramped up his <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/12/3080901/ron-wyden-darrel-issa-digital-bill-of-rights">involvement in internet issues and communities</a> in stated support of a free and open internet. Now, he's proposing a big legislative time-out in the form of a moratorium on new internet regulations for the next two years. It's certainly a bizarre move considering that Congress typically doesn't vote away its ability to do its job, but it's a defensive tactic that could resonate with an internet audience that expressed concern about having to play whack-a-mole with bad internet laws following SOPA.</p>
<p>The bill, named The Internet Moratorium Act (IAMA), is...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:11:"T.C. Sottek";}i:6;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:45:05Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:45:05Z";s:5:"title";s:72:"Why Nintendo's Wii Mini is out of touch with the internet and the future";s:12:"atom_content";s:1290:"
  
  
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  <p>Nintendo may have recently released a brand new console with the Wii U, but that doesn't mean that the original Wii is dead just yet. In the Wii U's <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3693408/wii-u-sales-surpass-400000-in-launch-week-nintendo-says-console-sold">first week of availability it moved 400,000 units in the US</a> compared to 300,000 for the Wii. That's only 175,000 fewer units than the Wii sold in the US during its debut week &mdash; for whatever reason, people are still buying the thing. In an attempt to create some more interest in the seven-year-old console, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3696710/wii-mini-launches-december-7th-in-canada-for-99-99">Nintendo today announced the smaller, sleeker Wii Mini</a>, with a suitably small $99.99 price tag. It's not a new strategy &mdash; all three generations of the PlayStation have seen redesigns, and Nintendo itself has seen success regularly refreshing both its handhelds and home consoles, dating...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"Andrew Webster";}i:7;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:07:04Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T19:07:04Z";s:5:"title";s:78:"Nebula weather station recreates clouds and other conditions inside your house";s:12:"atom_content";s:1084:"
  
  
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  <p>Though it's still a mere concept, the Nebula 12 weather station could one day make the thermometer in your home look hopelessly dated. The networked lamp changes its output to reflect current weather conditions in realtime. If it's sunny, for example, you'll see a bright yellow light. But it's when weather turns ugly that the Nebula is most impressive; on overcast or cloudy days, the machine utilizes liquid nitrogen, warm water, and high-powered vacuum suction to instantly create clouds inside your house. Weather simulation ends there though, so don't expect any rain drops.</p>
<p>The Nebula pulls in forecast data for up to 48 hours from MetOff, though its creators say users would ultimately be able to choose their own trusted weather source....</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:11:"Chris Welch";}i:8;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T18:55:02Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T18:55:02Z";s:5:"title";s:71:"Important federal privacy law set for Senate committee vote on Thursday";s:12:"atom_content";s:1172:"
  
  
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  <p>On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on HR 2471: a bill that will update a 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The original law was written years before the World Wide Web became a real thing that millions of people around the world use, and its authors didn't anticipate the explosion of mobile technologies or consumer data giants like Google and Facebook. As our own <a href="http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/8/10/3226111/ecpa-time-to-reformat-data-privacy-for-the-21st-century">Joshua Kopstein pointed out</a>, the sole reference point for our government's guidelines on data privacy is more than two decades old. While that doesn't seem like a lot of time up against the entire span of American civilization, it's an eternity in the age of the internet &mdash; a gap that's caused problems for citizens and law...</p>
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    ";s:11:"author_name";s:11:"T.C. Sottek";}i:9;a:8:{s:9:"published";s:20:"2012-11-27T18:35:15Z";s:7:"updated";s:20:"2012-11-27T18:35:15Z";s:5:"title";s:92:"Outlook.com app comes to Android with Exchange ActiveSync support wrapped in outdated design";s:12:"atom_content";s:1218:"
  
  
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  <p>Microsoft has just released <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outlook.Z7&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5vdXRsb29rLlo3Il0" target="_blank">a dedicated Android app</a> for users of its redesigned mail service, Outlook.com, which should be good news for those with certain Android phones that are incompatible with the service's Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Unfortunately, the first impressions from the app aren't great &mdash; sure, it offers important essentials like push notifications, multiple account support, and calendar and contact sync, but its user interface is uninspired at best, and outdated at worst. Unlike the impressive, minimalist look of Outlook.com, the app looks like it belongs on Android 2.3, Gingerbread.</p>
<p>Beyond the new Android app, the Outlook.com team has added a few important new features to the webmail client. Gmail staples like...</p>
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