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Top 13 YouTube stars earned $54.5M collectively according to Forbes “World's highest-paid YouTube Stars 2015”, with PewDiePie topping the list at $12M — The World's Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2015 — Ask just about any stranger on the street who Felix Kjellberg is and you'll likely get a blank stare.| Anil Dash / Backchannel: |
Apple's new Magic Mouse, with a Lightning port on its underside, is unusable and ridiculous while charging — So here's the thing. — This is ridiculous. It's obviously ridiculous. It looks wrong, and was so absurd I at first assumed it was a joke image, or that someone...| Kif Leswing / Fortune: |
BlackBerry Priv Android smartphone, featuring a curved 5.4" 2560x1440 touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard, is now available for pre-order in UK for £579.99 — BlackBerry Priv finally available for pre-order, specs confirmed — If you've ever wanted a smartphone that combines …
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7" review: extremely light, phenomenal display, but performance lags behind Nexus 9 and iPad Air 2 — The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Review — The first Android tablet I ever used was the original Galaxy Tab. It was a 7" Android tablet running Android Froyo …
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Google acquires 360-degree photography startup Digisfera to beef up Street View — Google has acquired Digisfera, a startup focused on working with panoramic images. Digisfera's employees will be joining the Street View team at Google “to continue building great experiences using 360° photography.”
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Behind the ad and sponsorship deals that led to the rapid rise of DraftKings, which included paying MLB and MLS in cash and stock to become an official sponsor — The Deals That Made Daily Fantasy Take Off — Federal probes of FanDuel and DraftKings pose this question: How did they get so big?
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Testing SteamOS, Alienware's Steam Machine, Steam Link, and Steam Controller: Valve's new living room ecosystem still feels beta — Steam's living room hardware blitz gets off to a muddy start — We put Valve's new OS, controller, streaming box, and TV console to the test.
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Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP, and Lenovo launch “PC Does What?” ad campaign in US and China — Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Lenovo Make the Case for the PC — How sluggish are PC sales? — Well, it's bad enough that Intel and Microsoft are banding together with three …
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New Google Play UI with separate tabs for apps and entertainment content starts rolling out — New Google Play UI is Rolling Out! — The big new Google Play UI update that was teased yesterday has begun rolling out to select users. It seems to be a server-side switch …
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Sources: YouTube readying programming that will be exclusive to its upcoming subscription service, will announce some of it at an event in Los Angeles Oct. 21 — YouTube Will Make You Pay to See Some of Its New Videos — Coming to YouTube: Videos you'll need to pay to see.| TechCrunch: |
Leaked documents show Pinterest projecting $169M in revenue this year, $1.44 per active user, $2.8B in annual revenue by 2018 — Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts — TechCrunch has obtained documents that show Pinterest has been forecasting $169 million in revenue … | Tom Costello / NBC News: |
US government to announce a plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register it with the Department of Transportation — U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered — The federal government will announce a new plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register the device with the U.S. Department …
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