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October 22, 2015, 8:20 AM

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Matt Leske / YouTube Blog:
YouTube introduces YouTube Red, which combines ad-free viewing and Google Play Music subscription  —  Meet YouTube Red, the ultimate YouTube experience  —  For years, YouTube's fans have been telling us they want more—more choice when watching their favorite content …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden  —  YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal  —  YouTube made its top video creators an offer …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally  —  Red Dawn  —  A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
Aaron Sorkin's movie isn't about the Steve Jobs I knew, and ignores the best part of Jobs' career  —  Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I Knew Isn't in This Movie  —  In 1941, the brilliant writer and director Orson Welles made a movie loosely based on a famous, powerful, contemporary American business figure …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Katie Roof / TechCrunch:
Nasdaq Acquires SecondMarket to Help Startups Sell Shares  —  Nasdaq has agreed to buy SecondMarket Solutions to combine forces with the Nasdaq Private Market.  The group will facilitate the exchange of shares for private companies including DocuSign, Pinterest, Shazam and Tango.
Julia Carrie Wong / SFWeekly:
Airbnb apologizes for San Francisco ad campaign touting company's tax payments, will take them down after local uproar  —  Airbnb Apologizes For Passive Aggressive Ads on Muni Shelters (UPDATED)  —  Less than two weeks before San Franciscans could vote to severely restrict Airbnb …
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Twitter previews redesigned Twitter for Mac client, to launch in the coming months  —  Twitter Revamps Twitter For Mac Desktop App  —  Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter's developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 Review: New Hope for Windows Hardware  —  Microsoft's first-ever laptop makes you wonder why the company didn't make one years ago  —  I want to tell you about a very exciting, cutting-edge piece of technology.  It's a computer with a screen and a keyboard that fits in your lap.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Latest version of Chrome enables muting of audio in background tabs  —  Chrome now lets you mute individual tabs  —  Last year, Google updated Chrome to show you which of your tabs was making noise by displaying a small speaker icon.  Taking it a step further, the latest version of Chrome …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google urges US government not to require whole-site removal of copyright infringing domains  —  Google Opposes Whole-Site Removal of “Pirate” Domains  —  In recent years the movie and music industries have continually pressured Google to take action against online piracy.

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