Last week we learned that pop star Taylor Swift decided to remove all her music from Spotify because she felt that it doesn’t “fairly compensate the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music” and that she couldn’t “agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.” Now Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has responded to Swift’s criticism by saying that she and other artists should be grateful to the service because otherwise pirates would just steal their music and they wouldn’t make any money.

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After a disastrous first attempt at preorders for the OnePlus One that ended in server issues and customers being charged twice for their orders, OnePlus is going to try again. On November 17th at 11 a.m. EST, OnePlus will reopen preorders for an hour, giving anyone who missed out the first time around a chance to get in line for the CyanogenMod smartphone.

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It’s incredibly hard to take an established property and convert it from one medium to another. The rate of success for movies and TV shows being adapted into video games seems to be getting a little better every year (see: Shadow of Mordor, the LEGO games), but there are still plenty of franchises that have yet to have their day in the sun. Game of Thrones is one of them, but Telltale Games could finally give the fantasy phenomenon its due later this year.

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It might be hard to believe for some of the Apple faithful, but there are plenty of iPhone users who opt to switch to Android. Unfortunately, for far too long, many of them would have difficulty receiving text messages, an issue which Apple recently addressed with a new online tool that allows users to deregister their iMessage accounts. But for the U.S. courts, this might have been too little, too late.

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Just like how Annie Wilkes felt about Paul Sheldon in Stephen King’s Misery, Comcast says it’s net neutrality’s No. 1 fan. In a blog post written on Comcast’s website Tuesday, Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen insisted that his company was the best friend that net neutrality has ever had, despite the fact that the company got into hot water for throttling P2P traffic last decade in a case where we found that Comcast was actively targeting specific protocols such as BitTorrent for throttling.

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The iPhone 6 Plus already is a best-selling device for Apple and the 5.5-inch phablet is even more popular in certain markets than expected. It seems that quite a few odd people have purchase the device, though, because some of them have found very unusual ways to use the smartphone. Redmond Pie points out one such case from China, where a user managed to install a somewhat working copy of Windows 98 on the iPhone 6 Plus.

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Apple Pay is a huge deal. The United States is painfully behind the times when it comes to smartphone-based payment solutions, but Apple is looking to rocket us into the lead in the mobile payments market — while making a boatload of cash in the process. Apple Pay just launched last month and it’s already a huge deal, responsible for about 1% of transactions at Whole Foods in just 17 days. Of course, Apple isn’t just targeting the U.S. with Apple Pay, and the company’s international efforts may get a huge jumpstart sooner than most people expected.

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In the midst of a busy holiday season for game releases, there are a few staple franchises that being updated for the new generation of consoles. One of them is Assassin’s Creed Unity, and Conan O’Brien is back in the saddle as the Clueless Gamer to review the first current-gen exclusive of the popular open-world series.

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Managing email has definitely become an annoying part of our daily lives — especially if you’re a tech blogger and your inbox gets bombarded with pitches for terrible Kickstarter and IndieGoGo projects all day. Happily, there are much better and easier ways for us to manage email besides using a standard web browser and Macworld has put together a terrific list of 8 awesome iOS apps that will make getting through your huge pile of email a breeze.

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It’s been a very troubling few weeks for space travel, but in light of the recent tragedies, it’s worth remembering how the bravery of the men and women willing to take these risks has affected our society for the better. Timelapse filmmaker Guillaume Juin used more than 80GB of photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station to create an astounding three-minute video which showcases the beauty of our planet and the incredible technology that orbits it every day.

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