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November 3, 2013, 11:20 AM

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Scott Shane / New York Times:

No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. — The N.S.A.'s Evolution: The National Security Agency was founded in 1952, and its surveillance capabilities were limited by legislation in 1978. But with the attacks of September 2001 came a new sense of urgency.

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Aileen Lee / TechCrunch:

Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups — Editor's note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 …

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix starts testing 4K videos, wants to launch Ultra HD next year — Netflix quietly added a handful of 4K HD videos to its catalog this week to prepare itself for a wider launch of ultra high-definition video content in the coming months. So far, the titles added to the catalog …

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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot — A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display off and a single notebook tethered wirelessly to the iPad downloading at a constant 50KB/s …

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Richard Waters / Financial Times:

Bill Gates stands separate from peers with focus on disease over internet connectivity — An exclusive interview with Bill Gates — The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe.

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Tim Peterson / AdAge:

YouTube to charge TV networks the same 45% of ad revenues it charges other content producers, ending favorable terms — YouTube to TV Networks: No More ‘Sweetheart’ Ad Deals for You! — Video Service Imposing 45% Ad Splits On All Partners, But Also Offering New Upside

More: ReelSEO Video Marketing, VideoInk and Business Insider

Tweets: @petersontee and @gyalif

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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

After recent stock price decrease, Samsung to hold first analysts meeting since 2005 — Samsung Prepares to Slowly Lift a Curtain to Investors — TOKYO — Secrecy has served Samsung Electronics well. Keeping its rivals guessing has helped the company, a South Korean technology giant …

David Grossman / The Verge:

YouTube Live: a disastrous spectacle Google would like you to forget — On the eve of its next attempt, has the company learned from its mistakes? — This Sunday, November 3rd, the world will experience the first annual YouTube Music Awards, hosted by Jason Schwartzman and streamed live from New York City.

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

YouTube Music Awards Are Readied for Webcast

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Android 4.4 KitKat and Google's quest to take over the world — Can a low-end Android phone be any good? For Mountain View, a billion users are at stake — “As we get on our journey to reach the next billion people, we want to do it on the latest version of Android.” — Sundar Pichai

More: Forbes and Ars Technica. Tweets: @carlfranzen

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life — Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states. I spoke with Microsoft after the update went live …

More: I4U News, PhoneArena, SlashGear, TechSpot, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta. Tweets: @codinghorror

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Rockstar lawsuit an escalation of a patent war against Google and Android, not the start of it — Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple and Microsoft, Sues Google and Android Handset Makers — Brian Fitzgerald, reporting for the WSJ Digits blog: … In response, Paul Graham:

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Cameron Graham / Technology Advice:

Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally — Amazon will begin charging sales tax on goods purchased by customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin today, after fighting such regulation for years. That brings the total number of states which require sales tax …

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