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July 29, 2015, 10:15 AM

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Terry Myerson / Windows Blog:
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today  —  When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows.  We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things.  Our vision was one platform, one store …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed  —  Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu.  —  I'm more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows 10 review: a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 with the new Start menu, Cortana, and more, but bugs linger and Edge browser lacks extensions  —  Windows 10 review  —  Looking back at Windows 8, it's easy to see where Microsoft went wrong.  It was a giant bet on touch-based computing …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment  —  Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Amazon unveils a proposal for drone-only airspace that would allow for high-speed delivery  —  Amazon provides new details on its plan for a drone superhighway in the sky  —  When I arrived in San Jose last night, the newspaper on the front desk at the hotel had this headline splashed across …
Katrina Brooker / Bloomberg Business:
How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse  —  “They weren't coming just to get wasted,” says Mel Cavaricci—aka DJ Mel—recalling the crowd milling in front of his sound table at a party in March.  It was at the height of the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, held in Austin, Texas.
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Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:
Vine is less about users sharing life moments, more about content creators using it to entertain viewers  —  Vine's Quiet, Stealthy Pivot  —  The video app is no longer all about sharing.  “It's more like the entertainment industry,” Jason Mante, Vine's head of UX, tells us.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Nokia's Ozo is a 360 degree VR camera for professionals with fast low-res rendering for rapid playback, price expected to be in the mid-five figures  —  Nokia reveals Ozo, a futuristic new camera for filming virtual reality  —  When Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.
Brian Crecente / Polygon:
Razer says it will pay what Ouya owes to indie devs  —  Razer will make good on more than $600,000 in funds potentially owed indie developers as part of Ouya's Free the Games initiative, the company's CEO tells Polygon.  —  Only about a quarter of the developers promised matching support …
Tony Romm / Politico:
How a federal agency mishandled $3.5B of stimulus money to expand rural broadband coverage and failed to deliver  —  Wired to fail  —  How a little known agency mishandled several billion dollars of stimulus money trying to expand broadband coverage to rural communities.
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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Hands-on with Motorola's new Moto X Style: fast 21MP camera, sleek feel despite large 5.7-inch display  —  Hands on with Motorola's new Moto X Style  —  Motorola just announced the latest version of its flagship Moto X, which is now called the Moto X Style.

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