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Nintendo has sold about 230,000 Wii U consoles in the U.S. in November, according to a “reliable industry source.” Despite not mentioning how many units it sold during the month, Nintendo said in a recent press release that Wii U hardware sales increased by over 340 percent compared to October. November saw the release of the Wii U-exclusive Super Mario 3D World, which sold more than 215,000 units in its first eight days on the market.

Olivia Holt posted this super cute photo tonight posing with a recipe book for Nutella. She sounds to us like she is nuts for Nutella 🙂 What do you guys think of the photo. We love the glasses!!

@olivia_holt:  hi my name is super duper incredibly over the moon happy #30NUTELLARECIPESYALL

Bon Appetit, Olivia. We hope you enjoy your Nutella. Sounds delicious to us.

Peyton List gave the fans a sneak peek at her latest photoshoot for Fashion Lover And Advice, we love the theme of this shoot. Doesn’t Peyton just look gorgeous. What do you think of Peyton’s photoshoot? Let us know in the comments.

Instagram (s FB) shminstagram. Rather using this week’s Gigaom Show to discuss the messaging app we already saw coming, we turned our attention to much hotter topics. Jeff Roberts breaks down whether the $25 million dollar investment in Coinbase is a turning point for Bitcoin. Then Austin-ite Stacey Higginbotham clues us into AT&T’s new plan to offer cheaper broadband in exchange for the telco snooping on your searches. Finally we round out the episode with a discussion about Verizion’s (s VZN) monster new LTE network and deep discussion on the ability to unlock one’s phone.

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With Christmas coming up, most of us will be preparing for some serious feasting. Unfortunately it’s also when we collectively generate the most waste. The surprisingly huge environmental consequences of food waste are hard to brush aside. Around one third of the world’s agricultural land is used to produce food that is subsequently not eaten. This land is often “created” by displacing forests, the animals that live in those forests, and the valuable ecosystem services they provide. Furthermore, growing, processing and distributing food racks up a lot of emissions. In Australia, the food supply chain is the next highest generator of greenhouse emissions, after power stations. After all that, 222 million tonnes of food is then thrown out each year in wealthy nations (in Australia, it’s 4.5 tonnes).

Fortunately, there are plenty of rewards  you get from reducing your food waste, beyond a healthier budget and clearer conscience. As it turns…

Truecaller, a Swedish company that runs a reverse-lookup phone directory so users can see who’s calling them, is particularly big in India. So it makes sense that that’s where the company is launching its new partnership with Twitter(s twtr).

The deal represents a handy bit of integration between the two services. When someone calls a Truecaller user in India, the app will tell them whether the caller’s number is associated with a Twitter account. They can then tweet at or follow the caller – however, this doesn’t make the Truecaller app a fully-fledged third-party Twitter client, as users can’t reply to tweets or see timelines.

As for how phone numbers are associated with Twitter accounts in the first place, Truecaller didn’t offer any explanation. However, it’s worth remembering that Twitter’s two-step authentication process involves registering a phone number, and also that carriers in many emerging markets offer low-cost…