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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.| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: 33% of teens say Instagram is their most important social network, 20% Twitter, 19% Snapchat, 15% Facebook — Survey Finds Teens Prefer Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat for Social Networks — A new survey may reignite the debate over teenagers' use of Facebook .| Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic: |
Inside efforts to resurrect a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part story eight years after it disappeared from the web — Raiders of the Lost Web — The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It's not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library.| 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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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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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.”| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Gear S2 review: attractive design, great interface, but slow voice controls, limited app selection, which isn't likely to change given its use of Tizen — Samsung Gear S2 review — We figured out smartphones a long time ago. It's been nearly a decade since the iPhone hit the market …
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Sony Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact review: great camera and battery life in an elegant, waterproof package, hampered by sluggish performance — Sony Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact review — Twice a year every year, Sony issues a new flagship Android smartphone. This rapid pace has propelled us … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
After delay, AmazonFresh rolls out mandatory $299/year grocery membership, as promised … Amazon has followed through on its plan to require a special $299/year membership to use the AmazonFresh grocery delivery service in Seattle and other cities — upping the ante and causing some frequent customers … Thanks:@taylor_soper
| 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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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.Sponsor Posts
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