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Rdio named Anthony Bay as its new CEO Tuesday. Bay joins the digital music subscription service from Amazon(s amzn), where he was working as Global head of Digital Video. That’s an interesting background, considering that Rdio also is operating a digital video service called Vdio — but for now, Bay seems to be concentrated on Rdio’s music business, as the company’s press release doesn’t mention Vdio with a single word. Of course, it’s not like Rdio won’t keep Bay busy: The company has been trying to catch up with Spotify by partnering with radio network Cumulus to launch free, ad-supported services. But making the numbers work hasn’t been easy for Rdio, which recently laid off a reported 35 employees.

Though Huawei has already said it cares not a whit for the U.S. telecom equipment market, its CEO made its stance official this weekend. Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei told French journalists on Sunday that Huawei was exiting the U.S. networking market, though it appears it will continue to sell mobile phones. Huawei’s supposed ties to the Chinese government have come under increasing scrutiny from the U.S. lawmakers, which have pressured companies like Sprint(s s) to ban its equipment from their networks. The U.S. may be the largest telecom market in the world, but Huawei has been doing just fine selling to carriers in almost every other region. Meanwhile U.S. operators have found their already limited vendor options shrink even more.

Breaking up is hard to do: That’s a lesson that online video network Blip is learning the hard way these days. For a little more than a year, Blip has been trying to focus all of its energies on its most profitable publishers, and in the process has parted ways with thousands of smaller video producers. But in the last few weeks, that process hit some bumps, and now a number of publishers allege that their videos got removed with little or no warning.

One of the publishers affected by this was Headline Surfer, a small news website for Daytona Beach and Orlando, Florida. Headline editor Henry Frederick took to Twitter Monday to complain that Blip deleted 500 videos without any heads up. “Half of our video collection is gone,” Frederick said.

He’s not the only one who’s complaining. A Spanish blogger saw 31 videos about autism disappear…

More and more, it’s clear that 3D printers aren’t just for printing plastic. A team at Michigan Technological University announced Monday that it has created a personal (albeit slightly dangerous) metal 3D printer. The design will be released for free to all as an open-source project and can be built from parts costing less than $1,500.

The printer works by laying down layers of steel that are sealed together with a commercially available welder that is integrated into the printer. The design is still in its infancy, but the team expects that making it open source will speed its development.

“Similar to the incredible churn in innovation witnessed with open-sourcing of the first RepRap plastic 3D printers, I anticipate rapid progress when the maker community gets their hands on it,” team lead Joshua Pearce said in a release. “Within a month, somebody will make one that’s better than ours…

IGN has discovered that the next Tomb Raider game could be called Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and is headed to next generation platforms. The news was discovered when Amazon Italy put up a listing for the game, which has since been removed. We reported earlier that Square Enix is preparing to show off two games at the VGX Awards and that Thief and Tomb Raider are the two contenders. We should find out for sure on December 7th.

Thanks, Metroidvania and Tilmen

Ariana Grande has been releasing songs from her Christmas album over the last weeks or so, and the latest EP is titled, “Snow InCalifornia”. Twitter and Instagram have been a buzz with the hashtag #SnowInCalifornia — the hashtag is filled with hilarious pictures of everyone’s reactions to “snowfall” in California. The track drops at midnight tonight ET, following in the footsteps of all the other tracks before it.

Ariana tweeted, “Who’s going to stay up til midnight to hear #SnowInCalifornia?” So, what’s it going to be? Who’s going to stay up with us to listen to her latest EP?

The handy CyanogenMod (CM) install app for Android is no longer available the Google Play Store, however that isn’t stopping Oppo from releasing its N1 flagship phone with CM pre-installed. The company is making good on its promised December release date, announcing on Google+ that the Oppo N1 will be available for $599 on December 10.

Oppo doesn’t specifically state that the phone will run on the custom CM software but the included image in the announcement clearly shows the CM logo. It’s a fairly safe bet that the handset doesn’t run stock Android(s goog) as a result.

In terms of hardware, the N1 was cutting-edge when it debuted in September although some more current phones have a faster chip. Oppo chose Qualcomm’s(s qcom) 1.7 GHz Snapdragon 600 paired with 2 GB of memory. The phone has a large 5.9-inch 1080p display, 13 megapixel camera that swivels…