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		<title>Wearable tech such as Google Glass, Galaxy Gear raises alarms for privacy advocates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayley Tsukayama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregulated door into users&#8217; private lives. The 1.6-inch, &#036;300 watch will be able to make calls, take pictures and send texts &#8212; collecting troves of data on users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple has a secret weapon in iOS7, iPhone5s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Jobs was still with us, many commentators &#8212; yours truly included &#8212; used to complain about the &#8220;reality distortion field&#8221; that surrounded Apple&#8217;s charismatic leader. Those in attendance when Jobs launched the devices and services (iPod, iTunes, OS X, iMac, MacBook, iPhone and iPad) that blew such huge holes in the business models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is China after our inventions?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/24/digital/is-china-after-our-inventions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-china-after-our-inventions</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things never change. For as long as I can remember, people in the west have been paranoid about the Orient &#8212; and about China in particular. I grew up in an ultra-devout Catholic household in rural Ireland and I remember my mother being terrified by what people then called &#8220;the yellow peril,&#8221; by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. lays out rules for some smartphone health apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they will begin regulating a new wave of applications and gadgets that work with smartphones to take medical readings and help users monitor their health. With the rise of the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices has come a flood of applications designed to help people stay healthy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamers&#8217; dilemma at this year&#8217;s TGS: PS4 or Xbox One?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Game Show 2013]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When each new generation of game hardware begins, gamers are presented with choices: Which console will they buy? Will they be satisfied with one company's machine or will they need to buy rival hardware too?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rain&#8217; reveals it gameplay while &#8216;Wind Waker&#8217; goes HD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cyber Gadget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PS Vita]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Street Fighter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zelda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re playing in the rain &#8220;Rain&#8221; is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful game of 2013. Developed by Sony&#8217;s Japan Studio, it&#8217;s set in a darkened city and begins with a boy seeing the silhouette of an invisible girl in the rain. The boy follows the silhouette, turning into a shadowy form himself, and enters a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet NPO links kids worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/21/digital/internet-npo-links-kids-worldwide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=internet-npo-links-kids-worldwide</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pangaea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, when the nation&#8217;s Olympic bid ambassador Christel Takigawa referred to &#8220;omotenashi&#8221; (the spirit of Japanese-style hospitality) in her speech to the International Olympic Committee, the term quickly turned into a buzzword in Japan. Now that Tokyo&#8217;s preparations for the 2020 Summer Olympics are in full swing, one of its urgent tasks, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, film industries sound alarm on piracy and point fingers at Google</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/21/digital/music-film-industries-sound-alarm-on-piracy-and-point-fingers-at-google/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=music-film-industries-sound-alarm-on-piracy-and-point-fingers-at-google</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Flaherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The music and movie industries are sounding the alarm again on online piracy, saying illegal downloads are on the rise and search engines such as Google aren&#8217;t doing enough to stop them. Entertainment executives say they have no intention of trying to revive failed U.S. legislation that would have imposed unprecedented regulations on Internet companies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony, Microsoft to square off at Tokyo Game Show</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/19/digital/sony-microsoft-to-square-off-at-tokyo-game-show/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sony-microsoft-to-square-off-at-tokyo-game-show</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Game Show]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Xbox one]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) is gaming&#8217;s main event. This year, heavyweights Sony and Microsoft are set to square off at Chiba&#8217;s Makuhari Messe convention center with brand new consoles in tow. Who will come out on top? Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One are both prime examples of what&#8217;s in store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Snowden leaks, why trust a U.S. cloud?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/17/digital/after-the-snowden-leaks-why-trust-a-u-s-cloud/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=after-the-snowden-leaks-why-trust-a-u-s-cloud</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s an ill bird,&#8221; runs the adage, &#8220;that fouls its own nest.&#8221; Cue the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which, we now know, has been busily doing this for quite a while. As the revelations by Edward Snowden tumbled out, the scale of the fouling slowly began to dawn on us. Outside of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental leak IDs over 30,000 &#8216;anonymous&#8217; 2channel users</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/17/digital/accidental-leak-ids-over-30000-anonymous-2channel-users/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=accidental-leak-ids-over-30000-anonymous-2channel-users</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s most popular online bulletin-board service, 2channel (pronounced ni-chaneru), recently experienced what is probably the biggest problem in its 14-year history when its promise to keep users&#8217; anonymity was severely broken by an information breach. 2channel was founded by Hiroyuki Nishimura in 1999. It rapidly gained popularity by offering anonymity and has become one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New smartphone enhancements, health help, free coupons and eye protection</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/16/digital/smartphone-enhancements-health-help-free-coupons-and-eye-protection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=smartphone-enhancements-health-help-free-coupons-and-eye-protection</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yukari Mitsuhashi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alienware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G-Shock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JINS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony unveiled its high-end lens attachment for mobile phones at the consumer electronics show IFA in Berlin on Sept. 4 . ]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy app gives users a better understanding of the human body</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/10/digital/anatomy-app-gives-users-a-better-understanding-of-the-human-body/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anatomy-app-gives-users-a-better-understanding-of-the-human-body</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in highschool, I was in the middle of basketball practice, when I suddenly felt an acute pain in my knee. I had no idea what had happened to me. After visits to several different clinics, none of which could identify the problem, I finally found an orthopedist who accurately guessed the cause of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coase idea explains Internet economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the news broke last week that Ronald Coase, the economist and Nobel laureate, had died at the age of 102, what came immediately to mind was Keynes&#8217; observation that &#8220;practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.&#8221; Most of the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web giants pumping us for data</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/03/digital/web-giants-pumping-us-for-data/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=web-giants-pumping-us-for-data</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you be looking for an example of hucksterish cynicism, then the mantra that &#8220;data is the new oil&#8221; is as good as they come. Although its first recorded uttering goes as far back as 2006, in recent times it has achieved the status of an approved corporate cliche, though nowadays &#8220;data&#8221; is generally qualified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banish trolls but the Net needs anonymity</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/27/digital/banish-trolls-but-the-net-needs-anonymity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=banish-trolls-but-the-net-needs-anonymity</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So the proprietor of the Huffington Post has decided to ban anonymous commenting from the site, starting in mid-September. Speaking to reporters after a conference in Boston, Massachusetts, Arianna Huffington said: &#8220;Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8220;Verdict Day&#8221; for &#8220;Armored Core,&#8221; while &#8220;Monster Hunter&#8221; sticks to 3DS LL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suit up for more &#8216;Armored Core&#8217; &#8220;Armored Core&#8221; games are loved by fans for their terrific &#8220;mecha&#8221; robot designs, cool visuals and rigorous gameplay mechanics. The latest addition, &#8220;Armored Core: Verdict Day,&#8221; is set in a war-torn dystopian future in which rival groups fight for precious natural resources. The landscape is bleak, the battles are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chain stores suffer part-timers&#8217; stupidity on the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/20/digital/chain-stores-suffer-part-timers-stupidity-on-the-web/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chain-stores-suffer-part-timers-stupidity-on-the-web</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, the hottest topic on the Japanese Web scene has been inconsiderate and shocking behavior by convenience- and food chain-stores employees who messed about with appliances and food, and then boasted with photos on social media, mainly on Twitter. While the initial so-called enj&#333; (to burn &#8212; as in it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s new &#8216;smart meters&#8217; not so clever</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/20/digital/britains-new-smart-meters-not-so-clever/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=britains-new-smart-meters-not-so-clever</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make credulous. In the case of technology, especially technology involving computers, that&#8217;s pretty easy to do. Quite why people are so overawed by computers when they are blasé about, say, truly miraculous technologies such as high-speed trains, is a mystery that we will have to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable storage, Sony&#8217;s laptop-tablet hybrid, tracking lost goods and more</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/19/digital/affordable-storage-sonys-laptop-tablet-hybrid-tracking-lost-goods-and-more/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=affordable-storage-sonys-laptop-tablet-hybrid-tracking-lost-goods-and-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yukari Mitsuhashi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cookpad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Storage space that won&#8217;t break the bank In Japan, finding a house or apartment in the city can be difficult and expensive — not to mention finding a place that has enough storage space for all your stuff. If you&#8217;re not entirely happy with what your home has in the way of closets and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manning case tests computer fraud laws&#8217; credibility</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/06/digital/manning-case-tests-computer-fraud-laws-credibility/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=manning-case-tests-computer-fraud-laws-credibility</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think that, as a society, the United States has become a basket case? Well, join the club. I&#8217;m not just thinking of the country&#8217;s dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services. There is also its strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Snowden, the days of the global Internet are numbered</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/30/digital/post-snowden-the-days-of-the-global-internet-are-numbered/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=post-snowden-the-days-of-the-global-internet-are-numbered</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world. This insight seems to have escaped most of the world&#8217;s mainstream media, for reasons that escape me but would not have surprised Evelyn Waugh, whose contempt for journalists was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Microsoft spent a decade asleep on the job</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/23/digital/how-microsoft-spent-a-decade-asleep-on-the-job/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-microsoft-spent-a-decade-asleep-on-the-job</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a young man named Bill had a vision. He saw &#8220;a PC on every desk, and every machine running Microsoft software.&#8221; And lo, it came to pass, and the company Bill cofounded became a gigantic machine for making money, and Bill became the richest man on Earth. This agreeable outcome was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre merchandising, tabletop Nintendo and new releases for Wii U</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ada Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monster Hunter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gangsters. Hostesses. And lots and lots of street fighting. No, this isn't a night in Shinjuku's Kabukicho red-light district. It's an evening with "Yakuza," Sega's crime opus on the Wii U.]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese adults spend crazy money on cellphone games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mobile games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, people&#8217;s behavior during their daily train ride has completely changed. In the past, Japanese were known to be avid readers of paperbacks (bunko) and manga magazines, and would do so even on Tokyo&#8217;s notoriously crowded trains. Now, however, it is rare to spot someone on the train who is not staring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different metaphor for China&#8217;s firewall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when it was discovered that a U.S. intelligence agency was pouring millions of dollars into a research project on &#8220;metaphor,&#8221; some people thought it was a delayed April Fool&#8217;s joke. This columnist begged to differ, on the grounds that metaphors are the way that most of us make sense of the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tablet phones and on-the-go iPhone charging, plus handy apps for traveling</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/15/digital/tablet-phones-and-on-the-go-iphone-charging-plus-handy-apps-for-traveling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tablet-phones-and-on-the-go-iphone-charging-plus-handy-apps-for-traveling</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yukari Mitsuhashi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[KitchHike]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really getting to know local cuisine KitchHike is a matching platform that connects travelers with local chefs. But in this case, &#8220;chef&#8221; refers to anyone who can cook local traditional dishes. While dining out at a fancy five-star restaurant is enjoyable, KitchHike provides the priceless experience of eating home-cooked meals prepared by local people. Users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are the sum of our metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks, I have lost count of the number of officials and government ministers who, when challenged about Internet surveillance by Britain&#8217;s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States, try to reassure their citizens by saying that the spooks are &#8220;only&#8221; collecting metadata, not &#8220;content.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porn: Do we really want ISPs to censor?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/03/digital/porn-do-we-really-want-isps-to-censor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=porn-do-we-really-want-isps-to-censor</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearly beloved: our subject this morning is online pornography and what to do about it. The fact that there is a good deal of erotic material on the Internet is beyond dispute, though the precise amount is unclear. Let us assume that X percent of websites contain porn, where X is a number between five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware: NSA knows the power of your metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To be remembered after we are dead,&#8221; wrote William Hazlitt, &#8220;is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.&#8221; Cue U.S. President &#8220;George W&#8221; Obama in the matter of telephone surveillance by his National Security Agency. The fact that for the past seven years the agency has, without a warrant, been [...]]]></description>
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