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Coco Jones looked so pretty as she participated in the 87th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade today, Dec 1st, in Los Angeles. Coco said that she had a blast at the parade with her Disney friends Kat McNamara, Olivia Holt  and more.  Check out more photos that Coco tweeted from the event.

Australia’s intelligence services have been happy — at least in principle — to share raw data about the communications of Australian citizens with espionage partners in the U.S. and Britain, according to the latest NSA leak published by the Guardian.

Australia is part of the so-called Five Eyes alliance, which was set up in the turbulent 1940s as a way for a core group of English-speaking nations to share signals intelligence with one another and to avoid spying on one another. The other members are the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.

The latest piece of surveillance-related information, brought to light by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, records a meeting held by the five countries’ intelligence services in 2008. At that meeting, the services discussed how comfortable they were with sharing metadata – the fragments of recorded information that tell the spooks who contacted whom and when.

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Finland’s Jolla finally launched its smartphone late last week in Helsinki. The device uses an operating system called Sailfish OS, which is derived from Intel(s intc) and Nokia(s nok)’s old MeeGo OS.

Happily, friend of Gigaom Christian Lindholm was on hand to take some snaps of the occasion.

Much of the Jolla team used to be with Nokia, before then-CEO Stephen Elop decided the firm should switch to Windows(s msft) Phone as its high-end platform. At that point, the Linux-based MeeGo went out the window.

Jolla had a fairly tumultuous beginning — it’s already on its third CEO and early promises of big sales deals in China haven’t come to anything. The smartphone was launched on Thursday in conjunction with Finnish carrier DNA, which set up a one-night-only pop-up store. Thousands of customers also pre-ordered the device, which can run Android(s goog) apps, online.

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Maia Mitchell looks awesome in these photos that have just surfaced of a photoshoot that she did with Chris Pizello. We are uncertain as to what the photoshoot was for at this time. We hope you guys enjoy the photos below of Maia from this shoot.

Actress Katherine McNamara arrives at the 82nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on Hollywood Blvd. on December 1, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

Check out another photo of Kat in the parade that she posted to Twitter.

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, it’s time to start thinking about holiday decorations. London’s Southbank Centre recently gave new meaning to the phrase “green energy” by unveiling a Christmas tree powered entirely by Brussels sprouts. And in Austria, a family claimed their second Guinness World Record by stringing over half a million LED Christmas lights across their property. In other tech news, Recchi Engineering and Carlo Ratti Associati won a competition to design Holland’s 17,000-square-foot pavilion for the 2015 World Expo in Milan. The pavilion’s green roof will be tended by a pair of self-driving tractors. Manuel Dominguez dreamed up a design for a futuristic mobile metropolis that can actually move to different locations in search of resources. And in Bogotá, a crowdfunding campaign has been launched for what could be Colombia’s tallest skyscraper.

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