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5:15 PM ET, November 3, 2014

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Lynn Neary / NPR:
Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's ‘Car Talk,’ Dies At 77  —  Tom Magliozzi, one of public radio's most popular personalities, died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.  He was 77 years old.  —  Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers” on the weekly NPR show Car Talk.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN's FiveThirtyEight Launches Studio for 2014 Midterm Elections  —  Nate Silver and other FiveThirtyEight politics wonks will be holed up in a new, dedicated studio set located within ESPN's New York newsroom on election night to feed updates both online and on-air to ABC News.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
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Charles V Bagli / New York Times:
Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade  —  For two days last weekend, moving trucks shuttled a total of 2,800 orange crates crammed with files, photographs and books from a Times Square office tower downtown to the tallest skyscraper in North America, 1 World Trade Center.
David Carr / New York Times:
Texas Tribune publishing model shows there is room for corporate money in news  —  Journalism, Independent and Not  —  Last week, I read an interesting article about how smart hardware can allow users to browse anonymously and thus foil snooping from governments.
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
How the Snowden Leaks Gave Pierre Omidyar a Cause — and an Enemy  —  The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune.  The Snowden leaks gave him a cause—and an enemy.  —  Illustrations by Matthew Woodson
Madeleine Heffernan / Business Review Weekly:
'We're effectively a start-up': Guardian Australia reports $7.5m loss  —  News website Guardian Australia has posted a $7.5 million full-year loss, after a small profit in 2013, but says ­revenues have diversified and “increased significantly”.  —  Guardian Australia is backed …
Discussion: @bencubby and @rosepowell
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Publicis Snaps Up Sapient For $3.7B To Build A Digital Media Powerhouse  —  Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced (PDF) a deal that sees it acquire Sapient for $3.7 billion.
Guardian:
Taylor Swift removes her back catalogue from Spotify, leaves it for now on Rdio, Beats Music  —  Taylor Swift v Spotify: back catalogue removed from streaming services  —  Taylor Swift withheld her new album 1989 from music streaming services, and has now removed all her albums from Spotify
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand  —  Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page  —  A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Tribune Publishing Hires Michael Rooney as Chief Revenue Officer  —  Former Wall Street Journal and ESPN Exec to Lead Sales and Marketing  —  TV and Technology  —  Tribune Publishing, which owns 10 daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune …
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
LightSquared Bankruptcy Plan Would Put Ergen in Control  —  LightSquared Inc. creditors reached an agreement to reorganize the wireless broadband company that, if approved, would put Dish Network Corp.'s Charles Ergen in control, ending his months-long bankruptcy-court battle with Philip Falcone.
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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