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Obama pushes for FCC to scrap Internet ‘fast lanes’ plan, reclassify ISPs as utilities Despite the drubbing he and his party took last week in the midterm elections, Barack Obama has decided to come out swinging on the issue of net neutrality. In a statement released on Monday, Obama reemphasized his commitment to preserving net neutrality and offered up his own plan that would reclassify Internet service providers as utilities under Title II of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The surprise statement was an implicit rebuke of current Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler, who this year proposed allowing ISPs to create Internet “fast lanes” that would let them charge content providers more money to ensure their traffic got delivered more quickly than traffic on the “standard” Internet.  MORE → Google exec explains Android got such a massive overhaul with Lollipop Android 5.0 Lollipop is the biggest overhaul to Android since at least the release of Jelly Bean and might even be the biggest Android design overhaul ever. Business Insider has scored an interview with Hiroshi Lockheimer, who serves as Android’s vice president of engineering and who explains the reason that Google decided to give Android such an extreme makeover with Lollipop.  MORE → Home Depot blames Windows for record hack, rushes out to buy Macs and iPhones afterward Home Depot has confirmed in recent months that it too has been the victim of a complex malware attack, with hackers reportedly stealing more than 56 million credit cards and over 53 million emails in a record cyber heist. The Wall Street Journal has learned more details about the attack, revealing that hackers used a Windows machine as a point of entry, from which they were able to spread the malware and collect customer data. Interestingly, one of the first moves Home Depot made after learning about the attack was to purchase new, secure, MacBooks and iPhones for execs.  MORE → Moto X and Moto G might get Lollipop sooner than anyone thought Some 2014 Moto X users have already received Android 5.0 Lollipop update prompts, Ars Technica reports, with the company posting — and then pulling — documents for the Moto X and Moto G Lollipop updates on its website.  MORE → Apple Pay is already having a significant impact at one major retailer If you’re looking for more evidence that Apple Pay is already a big success, look no further than a recent estimate put out by Mike Dudas, the cofounder of mobile payments rewards startup Button and a former executive at Google Wallet. Using data from both regulatory filings and from Whole Foods CIO Jason Buechel, Dudas estimates that Apple Pay has accounted for roughly 1% of all transactions at Whole Foods since its launch three weeks ago.  MORE → You’ll have a hard time finding a Nexus 6 in T-Mobile stores at launch T-Mobile may be one the first U.S. mobile operators to carry the Nexus 6, as the company is supposed to launch the handset later this week, according to recent reports. However, Android Police reveals that initial inventory will be limited, on par with the initial Google Play Store and Motorola launches, and customers might not be able to find a Nexus 6 to test, and potentially buy, in certain T-Mobile locations.  MORE → This is the real reason you won’t be able to use Apple Pay in Walmart stores Most of MCX retailers, including Walmart and many other big names in the retail business, are not taking Apple Pay payments from iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus owners interested in using the functionality because they’re working on their own mobile payments app called CurrentC, which should be an exclusive wireless payment option for them, at least initially.  MORE → These are the iOS 8 app extensions you need on your iPhone 6 Apple brought plenty of improvements to its mobile operating system with the release of iOS 8, but one of the most intriguing additions is one that you probably aren’t taking advantage of at the moment. Extensions give developers the ability to extend the functionality of their apps to other parts of iOS, even when the user is running another app.  MORE → Amazing video shows NASA astronauts placing a GoPro inside a floating water bubble GoPro cameras have brought us a lot of incredible footage taken here on Earth this year but now these wondrous little cameras are boldly going into outer space as well. NASA has posted a video of some astronauts on the International Space Station creating a floating water bubble while in microgravity and then inserting a GoPro camera inside it and having it record footage from within the bubble.  MORE → Sneaky new app brings all your Amazon Instant Video content to Chromecast One of the bummers about Chromecast is that it doesn’t have an official Amazon Prime app that will let you stream Amazon content that you watch on your computer to your television. That said, Android Police brings us word that there’s a new app called Primecast that promises to give you access to all of your Amazon Instant Video content on Chromecast, although there’s no telling whether Amazon will allow it to keep doing so in the future.  MORE →

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