ISIS fighters entered the besieged Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani, a Kurdish fighter said Friday, setting the stage for a vicious street-to-street battle in the shadow of Turkey's border. Alan Minbic, a fighter with the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, told CNN that ISIS now controls the southwest corner of the city, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab. However, there were conflicting reports. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said it did not believe that ISIS was in the city itself based on information from more than a dozen sources in Kobani. On Friday, ISIS released a short video showing the apparent beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning. In the same video, the group threatens the life of another hostage, American aid worker Peter Kassig.

The fighting has only intensified in the region in recent days, with

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- Alan Henning nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Alan Minbic nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- American nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
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- Australia nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Ayn al-Arab nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- British nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- CNN nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- ISIS nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Iraq nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Kobani nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Kurdish nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Kurdish People's Protection Unit nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- London nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- PM nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Peter Kassig nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Syria nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Syrian nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Turkey nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- Turkish nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
- YPG nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
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ISIS nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.


(CNN) -- Sony's PlayStation Vita, which hits stores in the U.S. and Europe next Wednesday, is much more than just another portable gaming device. With the Vita, Sony is trying to combine the power of its PlayStation home console with the interface, portability and social media features of a smartphone. With its innovative touch controls, OLED screen, motion sensors, social apps, GPS capability and dual cameras, it has most of the bells and whistles that today's gamers could want. Some industry observers question whether gamers will spring $250-$300 for another portable gaming device -- plus potential monthly fees for a 3G data plan -- when smartphones already handle many of the same gaming functions. But Sony is counting on the Vita's appeal to hard-core action- and first-person shooter gamers who want a designated mobile gaming system, not just another gadget on which to play "Angry Birds."

The seven-inch device is chock full of processing power, multiple controls and a 5-inch

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- Angry Birds (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- CNN (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- Europe (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- PlayStation (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- PlayStation Vita (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- Sony (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- U.S. (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
- Vita (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.
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OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen, all designed to make games look and play as well as they do on a PlayStation home console.


Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Google, now an Internet giant, is learning that it needs to take more careful steps in regards to privacy. Prompted by intensifying scrutiny from government regulators and privacy watchdogs, Google is striving to be more sensitive to data-collection issues that often make people uneasy. It went so far as to spike a recent project Google engineers had developed because of fears of potential backlash, said Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO. The scrapped software would have let people include their head shot photos in a database so that they could be recognized by a mobile application when someone takes a picture of their faces.

It's their job to wrangle expectations and ensure Google doesn't overstep "the creepy line" (to borrow a phrase from

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Eric Schmidt).