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RT @kevinmarks: "use twitter as your Google" - Kim Kardashian - which misses the phatic nature of twitter

RT @WSJD: Tim Cook at #wsjdlive last night: More than 1 million cards activated with Apple Pay in 3 days.

RT @engadget: LG nails the coffin down on plasma TVs

One nugget that Wojcicki shared was that 50 percent of YouTube views are now coming from mobile devices. She also said that the site is growing 50 percent each year in terms of watch time (although she conceded that YouTube watch time still doesn’t come close to the average amount of time consumers watch TV each day). When it came to questions around other subscription services — specifically, YouTube’s long-promised music subscription service — Wojcicki was once again noncommittal, and wouldn’t say whether it would launch this year. “We’re working on it,” she said. “You’ll be one of the first to know!”

The new gestures include a three finger swipe down action to minimize all active Windows and three finger swipe up to bring them back. An interesting addition is the ability to use a three finger swipe up gesture to activate the new Task View feature of Windows 10. Not only does Task View look like OS X’s Mission Control (Exposé) feature, the three finger swipe up is the same gesture. Microsoft is also borrowing the three finger swipe left and right to activate switching between apps, something Apple uses to move between fullscreen Mac applications. Microsoft and Apple have both borrowed desktop features from each other over the years, and former Apple CEO Steve Jobs unashamedly noted that Apple "steals" great ideas to make its own. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

White House Hit With What Appears To Be Sustained Cyberattack

HTML5 specification finalized, squabbling over specs continues

"Yes. Within the last 36 hours, we learned that unauthorized third parties obtained the e-mail addresses of some of our CurrentC pilot program participants and individuals who had expressed interest in the app. Many of these email addresses are dummy accounts used for testing purposes only. The CurrentC app itself was not affected.

RT @edbott: Holy crap: "You should proceed under the assumption that every Drupal 7 website was compromised"

RT @Techmeme: Samsung's Q3 profit drops 60% YoY to $3.9 billion, mobile division profit down 74% YoY

RT @Techmeme: Samsung's Q3 profit drops 60% YoY to $3.9 billion, mobile division profit down 74% YoY

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft outs upcoming fitness 'Band' with premature Mac App Store release (@mikebeas)

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft outs upcoming fitness 'Band' with premature Mac App Store release (@mikebeas)

RT @Techmeme: Apple forcing PCalc to remove iOS 8 widget, saying widgets on iOS cannot perform calculations

RT @Techmeme: Apple forcing PCalc to remove iOS 8 widget, saying widgets on iOS cannot perform calculations

Andy Rubin , co-founder and former leader of Google Inc. ’s Android mobile business and the current head of its nascent robotics effort, is leaving the Internet giant, the company said Thursday. Mr. Rubin is starting an incubator for startups interested in building technology hardware products.

When I went on leave, I wanted to see how webspam would go without me. I’ve been talking to people on both the algorithmic and manual webspam teams during my leave, and they’ve been doing a top-notch job. So I’m planning on extending my leave into 2015.

You’d expect that Google wouldn’t want to take attention away from its new Nexus Player by allowing people to gain access to its video services on rival devices. However, this actually makes sense when you consider that most people probably aren’t using Google Play to buy movies and TV shows — and it’s unlikely that this will change if consumers can’t gain access to the Google Play Movies & TV show service on the most popular devices.

Here’s how it works: Google parses the query, then hands the search directly over to the app named by the user (if it has been updated to support the feature). When the search results appear, they'll include "deep links” that take people to relevant places or pages in the app.

The proposal is part of a hybrid solution that has gained favor among the F.C.C. staff over the last two months. Like other possible solutions, it seeks to reestablish the F.C.C.’s authority to enforce net neutrality, the general concept that no Internet traffic should be discriminated against unfairly. But unlike policies previously considered, which treated the entire Internet ecosystem as a single universe, the hybrid proposal would establish a divide between “wholesale” and “retail” transactions.

He compared his decision to appear in a video game to accepting a role on the TV show “Wiseguy” in the 1980s. He had done stand-alone episodes of “The Equalizer” and “Crime Story” and “wasn’t very good in either of them,” he said, so he was inclined to turn down the part until Jack Lemmon talked to him about how television felt in its early days.

HP's 3D printers will be targeted at enterprises, much like the company's large-format printers, which are used to make billboards and posters. Unlike the current crop of HP printers, however, the upcoming 3D products are being designed to produce a wide range of functional objects and industrial components.

"We are selling the Nexus 6 in a way most people are used to buying it," Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for Android at Google, said in an interview Wednesday. The decision to create a more expensive, premium device that is more readily available suggests a maturation of the Nexus line. The primary goal of a Nexus device has always been to serve as a vehicle to show off the latest version of Android, largely attracting developers and enthusiasts. But the Nexus 6 phone appears poised for more mainstream attention.

“We didn’t get the price right,” Limp admitted. “I think people come to expect a great value, and we sort of mismatched expectations. We thought we had it right. But we’re also willing to say, ‘we missed.’ And so we corrected.”

The market share of PCs that run Windows 8.1 jumped to 10.9 percent in October, up from 6.7 percent in September and 7.1 percent in August, according to Net Applications, which tracks activity through analyzing the browsers hits of specific websites.

“Honestly, I’m not so much of a tech guy,” said Mr. Bastian. As such, the MB Chronowing will go on sale Nov. 7 at the online fashion retailer Gilt, not your local Best Buy. Two versions will be available: a limited-edition, all-black model with a sapphire-glass crystal and an alligator strap for $649, as well as a model that has just as much heft but is made with somewhat less refined materials (its three included straps are leather, rubber and nylon) for $349. gilt.com