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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 The New York Times

• 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 -- ...

• Twitter moves point to a timely IPO

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