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PS4 and Xbox help AMD to a profit, but outlook disappoints

AMD's business has been improving thanks to the use of its technology in the Xbox One and PS4

Hardware torpedoes IBM’s Q4 revenue

Sluggish sales of IBM mainframes and other hardware put a damper on the company's latest quarterly earnings report

Level 3, 11 other companies settle FTC privacy complaint

The 12 companies claimed to hold current certifications in an EU privacy agreement, but did not, the agency says

Don’t panic! Aliens aren’t throwing rocks at Mars rover, NASA says

NASA explains mysterious appearance of Martian rock in front of robotic rover

Tablet trends for 2014: More Windows tablets, 3G/4G and phablets

IDC sees big businesses adopting more tablets, too

Backblaze lists most reliable hard drives based on its massive cloud study

MIT develops heads-up display technology for windows, eyeglasses

Thin film expected to be inexpensive and easy to produce, researchers say

iPad sales skew even more toward Mini

But analyst argues that the average selling price will climb for Q4 2013 when Apple announces earnings next week

Amazon moves to next-generation compute instances

AWS has also cut prices of storing data in its cloud with its EC2 and EBS services

3D graphene-like material could lead to super electronics

The material offers vastly higher electron transfer rates, promising better-performing electronics