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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 … | Lynn La / CNET: |
Nexus 6 review: great display, top-of-the-line processor, more unwieldy than other big phones — Prepare to pay for the biggest Android Lollipop powerhouse — The Good The Google Nexus 6 has a razor-sharp and expansive display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 805 processor … | 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Will Onboard Users With “Instant Timeline”, Inject Top Tweets From “While You Were Away” — Twitter has 500 million logged out users it's trying to squeeze value out of, but now it has a plan to fix its growth problem, which is really a new user retention problem.
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Thanks:@joshconstine| 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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| Jack Dickey / TIME: |
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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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
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.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AWS has 1M “active” customers, adds new database, an automated deployment tool, a source control service, an encryption keys management service, more — AWS: With more than 1 million active customers, we're your stack — Summary: Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services … | 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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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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| 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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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: |
| Cameron Ewing / Facebook: |
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 …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft to open-source server side .NET; positions Visual Studio for cross-platform mobile development of Linux, OS X, iOS and Android apps — Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS … In a major strategy change designed to expand …
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