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WATCH THIS: A video tour of Android Lollipop on Samsung’s Galaxy S5

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As we reported on Monday, Android Lollipop has finally begun rolling out to Galaxy S5 handsets in the United States. Verizon Wireless subscribers with Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone are the first S5 owners in the U.S. to gain access to the new Android update, which features a number of great changes including speed improvements, better battery life and a new TouchWiz interface based on Google’s Material Design guidelines.

For Galaxy S5 users on other U.S. wireless carriers, the wait continues. This is precious little consolation if you’re stuck on KitKat, but a new video tour of Lollipop on the Galaxy S5 will at least give you a good taste of what you’re in store for.

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STAGGERING: This great visualization explains where all of Apple’s money comes from

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Apple pulled in $74.6 billion in the fourth calendar quarter of 2014. Let that sink in for a moment: seventy-four point six billion dollars. That figure is absolutely staggering; it’s more revenue than Google took in all year in 2014. What’s even crazier might be the fact that the lion’s share of Apple’s $74.6 billion in revenue is from sales of the iPhone, a product that didn’t even exist eight years ago.

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Google might become the next Uber for… Ubers

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A running joke in the tech community is to poke fun at all of the new startups that claim to be “an Uber for X,” where “X” is anything from pet grooming to prostitution. Well Google, which is already a major investor in Uber, is supposedly developing a ride-sharing program of its own that integrates its self-driving cars venture — that’s what Bloomberg is saying, at least, suggesting there’s plenty of concern at Uber over Google’s future plans.

On the other hand, The Wall Street Journal reports the news is “blown out of proportion.”

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Here is every new movie trailer that aired during Super Bowl XLIX

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The big game might be over, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any Super Bowl XLIX content left to enjoy, particularly if you haven’t been really paying attention to all those expensive ads on Sunday. Some of the best Super Bowl commercials included new trailers for various movies that will be released this year, and you can find them all embedded after the break.

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Apple is bringing special safes to its stores just to house the 18k gold Apple Watch

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Apple Stores are about to have something in common with Tiffany & Co. 9to5Mac reports that Apple is bringing in some specially designed safes to its retail outlets that will be responsible for housing 18-karat gold Apple Watch models, marking the first time Apple has ever deemed one of its products valuable enough to require a safe.

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WATCH THIS NOW: This is the most moving commercial from Super Bowl XLIX

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When it’s not busy running Apple attack ads that generally miss the mark by a pretty wide margin, Microsoft has gotten exceptionally good at creating commercials that move us by showcasing the software giant’s softer side. After all, Microsoft is much more than Windows and Office. The company’s software and hardware enables solutions that push technology further than it has ever gone before. As a result, Microsoft often plays a huge role in enabling people to do things that would have been impossible just a few short years ago.

Microsoft surprised us all with the best commercial of the Super Bowl in 2014, and now the company is back with the most moving TV ad of Super Bowl XLIX.

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