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Good news, sports fans: Variety reports that NBC, CBS and FOX will be offering online live streams of the NFL postseason and Super Bowl XLVIII, with most content freely available. NBC’s wildcard games, as well as coverage of the Pro Bowl later this month, will be streamed live for free. Similarly, CBS’s coverage of all AFC playoff games will be free to watch online via CBSSports.com for the first time ever. As for FOX, Variety says that NFC games will be free behind a “TV Everywhere” paywall (Fox didn’t confirm), but will offer the big game, including the halftime show with Bruno Mars, online and via mobile at no cost.

The fashion conscious may want to take note of Acer’s newest Chromebook, announced on Friday. The C720P-2600 is a slightly different configuration of the company’s current touchscreen model, available in Moonstone White next week for $299.99.

Aside from the color change — which looks visually appealing compared to the current grey model — there’s little else here that’s different.

The device has an 11.6-inch 10-point touchscreen with 1366 x 768 resolution and runs on the Haswell-based Intel(s intc) Celeron 2955U processor. That means it should provide around 7.5 hours of battery life on a single charge. Connectivity is found through 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and the Chromebook has an integrated HD webcam. There’s just 2 GB of memory to run the Chrome OS, which could present a performance challenge for heavy-duty usage with dozens of browser tabs open.

In the spy vs. spy scenarios sparked by NSA-gate and increasing evidence that everyone — not just the NSA — is spying on everyone else, it makes perfect sense that FireEye (s feye) is buying Mandiant for a cool $1 billion. Mandiant a specialist in cyber threat forensics and endpoint detection, came to prominence last year for its starring role in a New York Times report that linked a Shanghai-based unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation army to cyber attacks on U.S.-based tech companies.

According to a press release, the deal brings together the two companies’ respective expertise in “real-time threat detection, contextual threat intelligence and rapid incident response.”

FireEye, an expert in persistent threat detection, and Mandiant had already been working together for a year, and now they’re formalizing that collaboration to offer a range of cybersecurity detection, prevention, containment and remediation. Mandiant also brings its expertise in end-point security…

The special edition Luigi’s Mansion figure that was previously available on Club Nintendo US and Club Nintendo Europe has now officially sold out. The special edition figurine was available for 1500 coins in North America and 7000 stars in Europe.

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today’s closetcast: holiday sifting

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and Happy New Year! I wanted to put up a post showing the latest sale finds from the flurry of holiday sales that overwhelmed my inbox this winter. I could not resist these items and am so excited to style them in some funky new outfit posts coming up soon!

As I reflect upon my 2013, I just wanted to send a HUGE “THANK YOU!” to all of my amazing readers. You guys make this all worth it and I look forward to your comments and “likes” every day! Thank you so much! Here’s to 2014!!

XX, Kirin

forest green leather jacket: Rebecca Minkoff, heels: Tabitha Simmons, black dress: Zara, white leather purse: Zara

Facebook(s fb) is facing a new class action lawsuit that accuses the social network of violating state and federal privacy laws by scanning the content of users’ private messages in order to obtain advertising data.

In a complaint filed Monday in San Francisco, two men claim the company is surreptitiously scanning messages in order to detect websites that Facebook users send to one another in private. The purpose of the scanning is allegedly to increase the number of “Likes” to those websites, and in turn make Facebook more popular with advertisers.

The lawsuit cites recent research by a Swiss security firm that disclosed that the number of “Likes” on a web page goes up whenever a Facebook users send the page as a private link — proof, in other words, that Facebook has not been truthful in stating that such messages are only viewed by the sender and recipient. The company…

Pokémon: The First Movie is coming to Cartoon Network this Saturday at 8:30 A.M. in all U.S. time zones! http://t.co/xZdFkQoLIU#Pokemon

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) January 2, 2014

The Pokemon Company has reconfirmed that a visually updated Pokemon: The First Movie is coming this Saturday to Cartoon Network. The digitally remastered version of the film will air January 4th at 8:30 a.m. in all U.S. time zones. The movie, which was originally released in 1998, marks Ash and Pikachu’s cinematic debut, along with Misty, Brock, Team Rocket and the Legendary Mewtwo.