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- China is set to end a 13-year ban on videogame consoles. Sony and Nintendo are spiking.
- Huge money manager BlackRock has invested in Twitter at a $9 billion valuation.
- This pen can translate printed text as you read it.
- Yahoo will report earnings today.
- Apple is going to release a new iPad model, probably one with a lot more storage.
- Apple's iPhone isn't as cool as it used to be with the richies in Asia's trendiest cities.
- The tractor beam from Star Trek is close to becoming a reality.
- A quote in a Bloomberg report made it sound like Lenovo wants to buy RIM, but now Lenovo PR is walking the story back.
- Amazon's Kindle Fire is far and away the most popular Android tablet, according to this report.
- Twitter app Vine has a porn problem.
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