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February 23, 2015, 3:10 AM

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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.

Tweets: @mdudas, @travisbernard, @sub8u, @chartier, @valaafshar and @alexia

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

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, MacRumors, New York Times, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @raju

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 …

More: Gizmodo, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, GSMArena.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, Android Authority, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, Pocket-lint, Neowin and TechnoBuffalo

Tweets: @reckless and @detroitborg

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

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

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

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

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Equation Group shows US already has a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity, but like the original, it's purely offensive — Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks — “What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity.”

More: Wired, Security Affairs and Backchannel

Tweets: @henriquebastos and @jason_healey

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

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

AT&T charges at least $44 more per month for GigaPower plans if you opt out of web monitoring, and makes this pricing hard to discover — Don't let AT&T mislead you about its $29 “privacy fee” — This week AT&T got a lot of media attention for its expansion of its GigaPower service to Kansas City announced on Monday.

More: Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Tweets: @gigastacey, @elissabeth, @mweinbergpk and @gigastacey

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: PC Magazine, SlashGear, Neowin and ResearchBuzz

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

Uber must mature, but its victory over competitors and regulators seems certain in the US — It's Already Over And Uber Has Won — Money isn't everything, but it's certainly a useful metric for keeping score, especially when you're measuring it in the billions.

More: New York Times. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @jonrussell, @chrisgeidner, @dnvolz and @jspeedymorris22. Thanks:@jmbooyah

Fusion:

How the JOBS Act, investor demand, and private securities markets allow Uber to stay private

Tweets: @stephaniemlee

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