IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/15/2013

Amazon wants to be your everything with new cloud services
AWS introduces virtual desktops, a streaming content platform, and more tracking.

Apple to jury: Samsung owes us $380M for infringing our patents
Samsung says its phones were chosen because of differences, not similarities.

Google Search for Android now does Siri-style conversational voice commands
Google closes the last gap between it and Siri with step-by-step voice commands.

TSA’s got 94 signs to ID terrorists, but they’re unproven by science
Government auditor slams $900M spent on unproven program.

NSA has no idea when it spies on Americans, top lawyer says
Because doing so would “require a greater invasion of that person’s privacy.”

US gov’t wants to litigate disclosure case in secret
Google and others want to say specifically what gov't orders they've received.

Staking out Twitter and Facebook, new service lets police poke perps
LexisNexis' Social Media Monitor service brings big data to police departments.

Secret treaty leaks, Mexico wants copyright extended even more than US does
Trans-Pacific Partnership could also threaten Aereo's entire business model.

Sandwich.com and other domains Yahoo has held back from greatness
av.com and raging.com play home to ghosts of Internets past.

Reports of overheating chargers halt HP Chromebook 11 sales
Chromebook 11 buyers warned against using bundled charger until further notice.

Judge rejects patent troll’s request for no-media “gag order”
FindTheBest has the right to tell others about a $50,000 patent demand.

Drug clears up persistent bacteria by getting them to digest themselves
Induces enzyme that normally targets damaged proteins to destroy normal ones.

Amazon cloud delivers virtual Windows desktops to PCs and tablets
Windows and Microsoft Office delivered to iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire.

MacRumors hacker who took 860,000 passwords speaks: “We’re not terrorists”
No plans to mass compromise accounts on other sites, post says.

Black hole caught blasting heavy metal in jets
Outburst contained iron ions accelerated to 66 percent of the speed of light.

Bill would make it illegal for ISPs to slow down online video services
Data caps and deceptive pricing would also be regulated by proposed law.

NASA shares satellite and climate data on Amazon’s cloud
Landsat, other satellite data, climate change forecasts now available to all.

iFixit’s trip inside the new iPad mini with Retina display
Teardown experts find an iPhone 5S A7 and (possibly) replaceable glass front.

Meteorite impacts capture time capsules of the ecosystems they destroy
Biological molecules from the site of impact get preserved by molten rock.

Microsoft takes development into the cloud with Visual Studio Online
Visual Studio 2013 lands alongside a cloud-hosted IDE.

Xamarin and Microsoft join forces to take Visual Studio to iOS and Android
.NET becoming more cross-platform, as it was always meant to be.

New consoles “too limited” for Oculus Rift, says cofounder
Creator worries about locked console specs over the next few years.

Motorola’s new Moto G: A $179 smartphone with a 4.5-inch display
$179 off-contract for 720p display, 1.2Ghz Quad Core Snapdragon 400 processor.

Impressions: Our first day with the PlayStation 4 is full of surprises
From game installs to system menus, we try out what we can on Sony's new box.

The indies are coming: Hands-on with 10 of the PS4’s independent darlings
Sony's outreach to smaller developers pays off with a number of offbeat titles.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/15/2013

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