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February 23, 2015, 6:40 AM

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Apple:

Apple to invest €1.7B for new data centres in Ireland and Denmark running on 100% renewable energy — Apple to Invest €1.7 Billion in New European Data Centres — State-of-the-art facilities in Ireland and Denmark will run on 100 percent renewable energy

More: TechCrunch, iMore, The Verge, Business Insider, The Register, Gizmodo, Inquirer, CNET, AppleInsider, Gigaom, RTÉ, VentureBeat, cloudpro.co.uk, Cult of Mac, Neowin and MacStories

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Vice Presidents of product and engineering discuss how Twitter makes product decisions — Twitter's Dilemma — Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that's so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @travisbernard, @alexia, @valaafshar, @chartier, @sub8u and @mdudas

Kevin Roose / Fusion:

Meet the tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct — Like most media workers, Matthew Lazin-Ryder, a Vancouver-based producer with CBC Radio, spends a fair amount of time on Twitter. When he tweets, his messages are seen by some percentage of his 3,470 followers.

Tweets: @kevinroose, @sfiegerman, @digiphile, @hunterwalk, @digiphile, @alexjamesfitz, @zseward, @antderosa, @cpen, @arainert, @nkulw, @travelfish and @jnpayne. See also Mediagazer

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC One M9 pics and specs leak ahead of March 1st launch, will feature a 2GHz Snapdragon 810 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 5-inch 1080p display, and a 20MP camera — HTC One M9 pictures and specs leak out — As usual with HTC, the next great Android smartphone from the Taiwanese company has apparently …

New York Times:

Android Auto and CarPlay-enabled cars are coming, but some auto manufacturers are slow to adopt either platform — Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.

More: AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, New York Times and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @raju

Brett Howse / AnandTech:

Dell XPS 13 review: fast with class-leading 15 hour battery life on low-cost 1080p model — Dell XPS 13 Review — Dell launched the 2015 version of their XPS 13 at CES in January, and it made a big impression because of something that was very small. The first thing you see when you look …

Tweets: @dell, @mims and @jeffjarvis

Angie Han / /Film:

Oliver Stone to direct an Edward Snowden biopic, set for a Christmas 2015 release — Oliver Stone's ‘Snowden’ Sets Christmas Release; Adds Timothy Olyphant and More — Every year, the studios release approximately 8 million prestige dramas between November and December …

More: Deadline, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Ars Technica and SlashGear. Tweets: @codinghorror

Rita El Khoury / Android Police:

Toggling Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Flashlight works with voice commands in Google Search on Lollipop — PSA: Toggling WiFi, Bluetooth, And The Flashlight Works Flawlessly With Voice Commands In Google Search In Lollipop — Back in 2014, one of the changes spotted in Google Search was support for settings toggles through voice commands.

More: Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, Engadget and Android Authority

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

Hands-on with Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, which adds interactive notifications, a customizable “Action Center”, new Photos and File Explorer apps — An in-depth look at the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones — By now, you will have heard at least something about Windows 10 …

More: BetaNews, TechCrunch, PC World, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint and windowsphone.com

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

President Obama's doomsday encryption scenario doesn't align with how the tech actually works — What President Obama is getting wrong about encryption — President Obama meets with business leaders at a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection on Feb. 13 at Stanford University in Palo Alto …

Tweets: @runasand, @kansasalps, @matthew_d_green and @headhntr

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Tumblr adds “torrent” to adult content filter hiding related posts and searches from non-logged in users — Tumblr Censors “Torrent” Related Tags and Searches — It appears that piracy is becoming a growing concern for micro-blogging platform Tumblr.

More: gHacks Technology News, PC Magazine, SlashGear, ResearchBuzz and Neowin

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

How flash sale site Gilt Groupe overextended and lost focus after rapid growth and fundraising — Four years ago Gilt Groupe was the hottest startup in New York — Here's what happened — Four years ago, luxury flash-sales startup Gilt Groupe was one of the buzziest e-commerce startups in the world …

Tweets: @borthwick

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