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Android Lollipop review: almost every part of OS revamped, but apps utilizing many new features still unavailable — Android 5.0 Lollipop, thoroughly reviewed — Android updates don't matter anymore—or at least that's what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases … | Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Nexus 6 review: the best performing Android phone on the market but suffers from poor display calibration and relatively short battery life — The Nexus 6 Review — When consumers think of Google's Nexus devices, they think about the promise of receiving the latest updates for Android essentially as soon as they release.
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Apple's A8X features powerful semi-custom 8-core GPU — Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought — Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustrating. Apple's SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge …
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Taylor Swift's label says she earned less than $500K for domestic streaming the past 12 months; Spotify claims it paid her $2M for global streaming — Taylor Swift's Spotify Paycheck Mystery — Spotify and Swift's record label provide new figures to defend themselves in the battle over profits from the streaming music service
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter emphasizes company strategy during its first analysts day; shares close at $42.54, up 7.5% — Twitter Sharpens Its Strategy to Win Over Investors — Twitter executives laid out a strong case for their long-term strategy on Wednesday, taking the stage at the company's first analyst …
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Samsung unveils Project Beyond, a 3D-capturing camera for Gear VR — Samsung has just unveiled a sneak preview of a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos designed to be displayed on the Gear VR.| Ry Crist / CNET: |
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NOAA's weather system hacked by Chinese, which the agency then covered up, says congressman — Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network — Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning …
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Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS — We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude …
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‘Proximity’ is Samsung's equivalent of Apple's iBeacon, coming to a mall near you — Tired of only seeing adverts 99 percent of the time? While Apple's already announced intentions to take over the final one percent with iBeacon, Samsung's just today getting in on the action.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tells Silicon Valley He's Open To Obama Net Neutrality Plan — WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Barack Obama went public with his support of an aggressive approach to protecting net neutrality. Shortly after that, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler told … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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Facebook launches Say Thanks, a tool for creating personalized video cards for your friends — Introducing Say Thanks — Millions of people use Facebook every day to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Your friends are at the core of your Facebook experience … | Mary Madden / Pew Internet: |
91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies — Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …
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Sony launches PlayStation Vue web-based TV service with all major broadcast and some cable networks, testing in NYC with broad rollout in Q1 2015 — Sony to Introduce Web-Based TV Service — Sony is pressing play on a new web-based television service that represents an attempt to transform … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …
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DJI introduces the Inspire 1 drone, shoots 4K video and 12MP photos; $2,900, preorder now, ships end of November — DJI Inspire 1 takes flight with a 4K camera — There are quadcopters with cameras out there that could be considered nothing more than toys. The DJI Inspire 1 is no toy.
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