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On the content beat: YouTube-Disney, Nook tablet, Netflix deal

Have we got some deals for you, and other news involving distribution of content in the Internet age. • YouTube and Disney are set to sign a deal bringing Disney-produced videos to the Google-owned video site, according to the Read More →

The hacking news: on Facebook’s survival, plus attacks against Israel, Adidas

Whew! Top story in the hacking news feed: Facebook is still up and running — the Anonymous threat to kill the world's largest social network on Nov. 5 apparently was never real — but here are a Read More →

Quoted: on Apple’s Siri as a threat to Google search

"Apple’s Siri is a significant development — a voice-activated means of accessing answers through iPhones that demonstrates the innovations in search." — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, in a written response to the Senate antitrust committee that grilled Read More →

Off topic: Jaws and more of nature, starlings, spray paint, camel-milk ice cream

Terrifying teeth and mouths galore at Nature Wants to Eat You. Speaking of nature, a video of a murmuration, or a collection of starlings that a couple of women happened upon. So you know, the humble Read More →

Tablet talk: new Nook from Barnes & Noble, plus dropping tablets from the sky and more

Once again, time for tablets: • Barnes & Noble is putting another product on the tablet train. Engadget reports that the bookseller will announce Monday that it will roll out the Nook Tablet Nov. 16, the day after the Read More →

Groupon, jobless rate, AMD on the economic roller-coaster

Highs and lows on the roller coaster that is the U.S. economy: • Dizzying heights: Groupon went public today. The Chicago company's shares, which had been priced at $20 — giving it a $12.7 billion valuation — opened by Read More →

Quoted: on U.S. cyberspying charges against China, Russia

"This is a national, long-term, strategic threat to the United States of America. This is an issue where failure is not an option." — Robert Bryant, U.S. counterespionage chief, accuses China and Russia of online spying on the United Read More →

Off topic: Age and politics, animated Collatz graph, changing eye color, jelly-bean video

How age shapes U.S. political outlook, charted. In case math nerds missed it it, a bit of animated fun with the Collatz conjecture. (via Flowing Data) Don't it make my brown eyes blue, for Read More →

Topsy-turvy tech: HP’s somewhat new tablet, Amazon’s lending library, plus adding ‘fragmentation’ to the Fire talk

Tidbits from the topsy-turvy tech world: • HP, the company that supposedly exited the mobile-device hardware business, has updated the Slate, its Windows-based tablet. In a press release today, Hewlett-Packard touts the Slate 2, which is aimed at business Read More →
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