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Stories of the day:

• iTunes 11 hands-on: a faster, cleaner, more connected version of Apple's jukebox
• Microsoft's Surface Pro to arrive in January, priced from $899 for 64GB model
• Microsoft says the Surface Pro will have 'approximately half the battery life' of the Surface RT
• NASA dashes hopes for Curiosity discovery, says there is no 'definitive evidence' of life on Mars