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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 …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Associated Press, PC Advisor, Observation Deck, PCMag Australia google …, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Forbes and The Verge

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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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.

More: 9to5Google and Ars Technica

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Android 5.0 Lollipop begins rolling out OTA to Nexus devices

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

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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Tweets: @jguynn, @marshallk 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% — 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

More: CNNMoney.com, Variety, Business Insider, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Stereogum, The Verge and Mashable. Tweets: @brianstelter. See also Mediagazer

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, TechCrunch, The Register, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, The Verge, Re/code and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tim

Ry Crist / CNET:

SmartThings to control Samsung's smart appliances

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

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

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Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

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

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

Nate Swanner / SlashGear:

Samsung Flow takes on Continuity for use across devices

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and Gigaom

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

Amazon Web Services (AWS):

Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS

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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: Re/code, PandoDaily, Associated Press, Poynter, Washington Post, SC Magazine, SocialTimes, eWeek, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, PC World, ZDNet and Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tweets: @pewinternet

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

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 …

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: Tech Times, Electronista, Associated Press, The Verge and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

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

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, Linux.com, Bloomberg, ReadWrite, GeekWire, InfoWorld, ExtremeTech, Android Police, SiliconANGLE and MacRumors

Tweets: @donpark and @btaylor

Thanks:@johnhcook

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

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

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