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• Why Microsoft bought Minecraft: To showcase HoloLens' augmented reality

  What does $2.5 billion get you? If you're a Microsoft, a really cool augmented reality demo.

• All the news that's fit to squish -- on a smartwatch

• Google designing new Mountain View headquarters

  Google will submit plans this week to build a new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

• U.S. on Sony breach: North Korea did it

  U.S. officials now believe North Korea is behind the attack that took down Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer network and posted contents on the Internet, but ...

• What Gamergate says about the tech industry

  The antipathy toward women expressed in the Gamergate dispute reflects uncomfortable truths about the rest of the tech industry.

• Would an anonymous app from Facebook be creepy or smart?

  Facebook is preparing to launch a mobile app that would enable users to interact online anonymously, a move analysts said could be good or scary.

Features about new york times

• The Sony breach may be start of new nation-state cyberattack

  It has been an exceptional year for IT security breaches and part of an escalating trend in destructive attacks, and it's going to get worse.

• Displaced IT workers are being silenced

  A major problem with the ongoing H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news stories. Much of the reporting is one-sided -- ...

• Perspective: Microsoft's CEO pick will be dubbed a dud, bragged as brilliant

  History shows that no matter who gets the nod, some of the commentariat will cry foul

• Twitter moves point to a timely IPO

  As speculation swirls, analysts say the micro-blogging site can avoid Facebooks IPO debacle

• Microsoft's drip-drip-drip Windows communications strategy dubbed a washout

  Interview spree by Windows' CFO brings little new information to the table - and that's a big problem for everyone in the ecosystem, argues analyst

• Think different: Apple's $17B debt offers stark contrast to 1996's junk bonds

  17 years ago, Apple was on the brink of disaster, and its junk bonds reflected the unease over its future with Windows dominant