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November 13, 2014, 12:15 AM

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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 …

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

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 …

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Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Android 5.0 Lollipop begins rolling out OTA to Nexus devices

More: The Official Motorola Blog, The Register, Android Police, Technology Personalized, Ars Technica, Android Police, TechCrunch, Phandroid, Droid Life, BGR and The Next Web. Tweets: @android

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

More: 9to5Google and Ars Technica

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 …

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.

More: CNET, The Next Web, The Register, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PC World, AppleInsider, The Verge, TechCrunch and Re/code. Tweets: @tim

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Samsung launching Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ in early December for $199

More: Samsung Mobile US Press, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Gigaom and CNET

Ry Crist / CNET:

SmartThings to control Samsung's smart appliances

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, ReadWrite and Tech Times

Nate Swanner / SlashGear:

Samsung Flow takes on Continuity for use across devices

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Gigaom and Engadget

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Samsung releases its SAMI health SDK to developers and unveils new Simband wearable

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gigaom, The Verge and ZDNet

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 …

More: PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Re/code, eWeek, Poynter, Washington Post, Fortune, PC World, SC Magazine, Electronic Frontier Foundation, SecurityWeek, SocialTimes, ABC News, ZDNet and BBC. Tweets: @pewinternet

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 …

More: GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Web Services Blog, Amazon.com, eWeek, Amazon Web Services Blog, Amazon.com, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Web Services Blog, Amazon Web Services Blog and The Register. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Amazon Web Services (AWS):

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 …

More: VentureBeat, PC World, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Gigaom, Digital Journal, InfoQ, InfoWorld and The New Stack

The Huffington Post:

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 …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @mmasnick, @froomkin and @gigibsohnfcc. See also Mediagazer

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T chief says Net neutrality qualms could crimp fiber plans

More: Reuters, Associated Press, Fortune, Electronista, The Verge, Medium, Washington Post, Tech Times, Engadget and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: The Twitter Blog, The Next Web, CNET, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, The Verge, Marketing Land, 9to5Mac, PC World, SlashGear, The Next Web, internetretailer.com and Engadget

Tweets: @marshallk, @jguynn and @jguynn

Thanks:@joshconstine

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter emphasizes company strategy during its first analysts day; shares close at $42.54, up 7.5%

More: Gigaom, Business Insider, iMore, Forbes, Re/code, CNBC, Bloomberg, TheStreet.com and Valleywag

Tweets: @bijan, @dickc, @sama, @stop and @stop

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 …

More: Microsoft, Miguel de Icaza, Wired, MSDN Blogs, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, GitHub, Linux.com, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, CNET, InfoWorld, GeekWire, ExtremeTech, SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, Android Police, Ars Technica and Network World

Tweets: @donpark, @btaylor and @mikeisaac

Thanks:@johnhcook

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 previews, free Visual Studio Community 2013

More: MSDN Blogs

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 …

More: Re/code, Ubergizmo, Slate, ABC News, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, AllFacebook, iPhone in Canada Blog, USA Today, Inside Facebook, Mashable and Engadget. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Washington Post:

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 …

More: The Register, CNNMoney.com, SecurityWeek, Gawker, eWeek, The Verge, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and CIO.com. Tweets: @profwoodward. Thanks:@srikardr

Kevin Montgomery / Valleywag:

Handy, an on-demand cleaning and handyman startup, sued for allegedly misclassifying workers as independent contractors — Handy Sued For Being a Hellscape of Labor Code Violations — Handy, the on-demand “handyman” and house cleaning startup, is facing a class action lawsuit for violating an impressive amount of labor laws.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @nitashatiku, @mattyglesias, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @kevinroose, @profjeffjarvis and @strngwys

Joshua Goldman / CNET:

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.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Popular Mechanics, UPI, Gigaom, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, PDNPulse, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal and PetaPixel

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