You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s new attorney general was in office for only six days by the time people started calling for his resignation.
Republican John Swallow sailed into the position last November with almost 65 percent of the vote and vastly more campaign cash than his Democratic opponent.
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HBO Go, the greatest streaming service known to mankind, will be coming to the Apple TV this year. Bloomberg is reporting that the HBO Go app will pop up on Apple’s little black box by the middle of 2013. The next months are going to be suspenseful! More »
Khloe Kardashian didn’t get off to the best start in the first few weeks of her “X Factor” hosting gig, and Thursday on HuffPost Live she discussed the many factors that contributed to her initial struggles with live TV.
After getting the job only a week before the show’s live premiere, Kardashian quickly found herself feeling like a rookie. “I’ve never done live TV before, and I was asked to not do any hosting lessons because they wanted me to be just myself. I found the day before because the stage was just built, that I couldn’t read the teleprompter without glasses, so I had to get contacts the day before,” she explained.
Live TV presented many new challenges for the veteran reality star. “Just learning how there’s a screaming audience and you don’t yell because the mic is right there … I will have an earpiece in my ear, and while I’m trying to read the teleprompter then I have someone counting down … and they’re like, ‘Okay, ask Simon this or that’ … There were so just so many pieces I never knew were involved in live TV,” Kardashian said.
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Let your faith in humanity be restored yet again!
In a random act of kindness, a Texas A&M parent named Nancy returned a lost paycheck to its intended recipient, Sarah, penning a heartwarming letter that explains how she found the misplaced item.
Redditor BeardedAsian uploaded a photo of the handwritten letter Thursday, noting that her “friend lost her paycheck last week” and “got this in her mailbox this morning.”
Wondering what Sony might have in store for us this year? Some say that the company could be launching their PlayStation 4 console, while others might be more interested in Sony’s mobile Android devices. Whatever the case is, it looks like Sony has released a teaser video that has simply been titled, “#PlayStation2013”, with the end of the video revealing a date for the 20th of February. Some have speculated that due to the title and the heavy emphasis of PlayStation in the video that Sony could be unveiling the PlayStation 4 on that date. However it should be noted that the 20th of February falls pretty close to MWC 2013 so it is possible that the company will probably be unveiling something MWC related, such as news regarding PlayStation Certification for Android devices, or for all we know maybe a next-gen Xperia Play (pure speculation here, don’t read too much into it!). Of course there is the possibility that we could be wrong, but either way check back with us on the 20th of February if you’d like to know what Sony has in store for us!
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: WSJ: PS4 Coming On February 20th, Hacked Xbox 360 Leads To Police Raid On Unrelated Family, 
I know you can’t wait for the third season of Game of Thrones when it hits at the end of March. Me too. Well, here is something to help tide you over until then. This amazingly detailed Minecraft King’s Landing was created by the people at Westeroscraft – who are gradually recreating the entire domain of Westeros using only Minecraft. And even though it is awesome, it makes me sad because we still have to wait for next season.
I want to watch it now! I’ll just take a deep breath instead, and absorb all of detail of King’s Landing. Just look at all of those buildings, the docks, the countryside. This city is alive – though we all wish King Joffrey wasn’t.
The only thing missing is an immense battle with green wildfire spraying over the ships in Blackwater Bay.
Hit this link for a gallery of hi-res images. They did an amazing job. But I still want to watch the show now!
[reddit via Nerd Approved]
When three brothers fell into Salmon Creek in southwest Washington, inmates working nearby dove into the freezing water to save them, The Columbian reports.
“Just cause we’re incarcerated, doesn’t mean we’re bad people. We made some bad choices in our lives, but we’re still, we’re just like everybody else. We’re just paying our debt for what we did wrong,” Jon Fowler, 28, one of the inmates, told KPTV.
Fowler was part of a 10-person work crew from the prison doing supervised maintenance at a nearby park, the Columbian reports.
Forget email. This group of 40-something men has a much better way to keep in touch.
For the past 23 years, Brian Dennehy, CMO of Nordstrom, has been playing an elaborate game of tag with nine of his former classmates. According to the Wall Street Journal, the group met at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Wash., where they spent morning breaks darting around campus.
Today, the game remains fundamentally the same — one player is “It” until he tags someone else — but with a few twists. Players can only tag in February, meaning whoever is “It” stays “It” until the next year.
Well here’s something we weren’t expecting. Sony just teased us with a super secret, super mysterious, super probably a new PlayStation (because, what else?) event next month. Let’s start speculating and freaking out about a new console war. More »
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