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February 10, 2015, 10:30 AM

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Prem Ramaswami / The Official Google Blog:

Google adds fact-checked and reviewed health information to Knowledge Graph in search — A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph — Think of the last time you searched on Google for health information. Maybe you heard a news story about gluten-free diets …

More: Search Engine Land, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PC World, Android Authority, Guardian, The Verge, 9to5Google, Business Insider, The Next Web, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, Search Engine Roundtable, mobihealthnews, Android Central, Electronista, Seeking Alpha and Beyond Search

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8.4 to be released after Apple Watch starts shipping, possibly with redesigned Beats-based music service — Apple working on iOS 8.4 update, may include new music service — In addition to working on iOS 8.2, iOS 8.3, and iOS 9.0, Apple is working on yet another update to iOS 8: iOS 8.4.

More: iMore, Computerworld, App Advice, Business Insider, Silicon Republic, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, AppleTell, MacDailyNews and BGR

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8.3 brings wireless CarPlay, improved Google login, new Emojis, China Apple Pay — Earlier today, Apple seeded the first iOS 8.3 build to developers alongside Xcode 6.3 beta with Swift 1.2. Readers have discovered that the new operating system brings a new wireless CarPlay feature to the iPhone.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, Electronista, InvestorPlace, Macworld, TechSpot, PhoneDog.com, App Advice and Engadget

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Ross Ulbricht's closest confidant at Silk Road, known as Variety Jones, remains elusive — Ross Ulbricht Didn't Create Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts. This Guy Did — More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts …

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Deezer brings its lossless Elite music-streaming service to Sonos music systems globally — Mobile executive? VB is hosting our 5th annual Mobile Summit on February 23-24 at the scenic Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, CA. See if you qualify here. — Music-streaming company Deezer …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gigaom and Engadget

Derek Kessler / iMore:

Swift 1.2 features an improved compiler and Objective-C interactions — Apple's youngest programming language, Swift, received a fairly substantial update with today's first beta of Xcode 6.3, at least in beta form. The Swift 1.2 beta features an improved compiler that's both more stable and more speedy …

More: Apple Developer, Ars Technica, MacNN, Daring Fireball, The Next Web and 9to5Mac

Beth McMurtrie / Chronicle of Higher Education:

Many original Thiel fellows say they learned more in fellowship than they would've in college — The Rich Man's Dropout Club — Whatever happened to the teenage entrepreneurs whom Peter Thiel paid to forgo college? — Peter Thiel paid teenagers to forgo college. Here's how that turned out:

More: Bloomberg View and EdSurge. Tweets: @jaygarmon

Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:

San Francisco's antitech movement has fizzled before it ever really took off — Is the antitech movement obsolete? — Wearing a pig mask and sequined suit jacket, Amy Gilgan stood outside of Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night to accept the McMansion award at the second annual Crappys …

More: Union Square Ventures. Tweets: @pmarca, @ellenhuet, @kimmaicutler, @tolles and @benioff

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft, Samsung settle contract dispute over Android patent payments — Summary:Microsoft and Samsung have settled an Android patent-licensing-related contract dispute, Microsoft officials say, while offering no specific about the terms. — Microsoft and Samsung have settled …

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

Samsung creates independent team to work on VR, drones, robots, 3D printing, unmanned vehicles — Samsung establishes product innovation team — Samsung Electronics has established a team to work on hi-tech innovative business projects, officials said Monday.

More: Engadget, CNET, Guardian, Silicon Republic, Ubergizmo and SamMobile

Cory Bennett / The Hill:

Apple CEO to speak at White House cyber summit — Apple CEO Tim Cook will speak at the White House cybersecurity summit this Friday at Stanford University, according to an invitation to the event. — The White House is expected to reveal its next executive action on cybersecurity at the summit …

More: Business Insider, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iMore

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

French government can now block sites that advocate terrorism or contain images of child abuse without a court order; ISPs must comply within 24 hours — French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect — Law that allows blockade of offending sites without …

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Silicon Republic, Telecompaper, VentureBeat, Nieman Lab, Ars Technica and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Samsung rejects TV privacy concerns: we do “not retain voice data or sell it to third parties” — Samsung rejects concern over ‘Orwellian’ privacy policy — Smart TV voice recognition software could transmit ‘personal or other sensitive information’ to a third party, Samsung's policy warns

More: BBC, Zach Holman, NEWS.com.au, BGR, Altimeter Group, Yahoo Tech, E-Commerce Times, Fortune, We Live Security, The Daily Caller, Gigaom and MacDailyNews

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

IBM and Softbank team up on cognitive computing, Watson to learn Japanese — IBM's Watson Turns Japanese and Moves Into Robots — IBM and SoftBank Telecom Corporation have agreed to bring the technology behind Watson — the IBM computer that won the television game show “Jeopardy!” — into Japan.

More: Re/code, ZDNet, TheStreet.com and TechCrunch

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

RootMetrics: Verizon, T-Mobile lead in consistently fast 4G — Independent mobile network tester RootMetrics has completed its latest round of nationwide speed and reliability tests, and while the best overall performance award goes to Verizon, the speed prize that most tech geeks really care about was a bit of toss-up.

More: Re/code, BGR, The Register, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Mobile News Online, TmoNews, GeekWire, FierceWireless and CNET

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Facebook Takes Internet.org And Its Free Mobile Data Services To India — Facebook's Internet.org project to provide basic mobile internet services for free just took its biggest step to date after it launched in India. — The service, which is run by non-profit organization Internet.org …

More: Facebook, Android Authority, PC World, MediaNama, WebProNews, iMore, Technology Personalized, Gigaom, VentureBeat, BG$ India and The Next Web

Bloomberg Business:

IBM Sues Priceline, Kayak Over Royalties for Late '90s Patents — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — IBM is suing Priceline Group Inc. and its subsidiaries, travel website Kayak and restaurant-reservation tool Opentable, after failing to reach a patent-licensing agreement.

More: PC World, Wall Street Journal and The Register

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