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March 21, 2015, 2:55 PM
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David Ruddock / Android Police:
New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices  —  If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.
ABC News:
Apple provides a peek into its Watch fitness testing facility, reveals it collected 18K hours of health and fitness data in testing  —  Inside Apple's Top Secret Health and Fitness Lab for Apple Watch Development … Apple, known for keeping its product developments under the strictest of lock-and-key …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon's working on storefront called Unlocked to offer paid apps for free; no launch date set  —  Amazon ‘Unlocked’ Will Give Away Paid Apps For Free  —  Amazon has been working hard to build up the popularity of its Android-based Appstore with consumers and developers …
Tom Vanderbilt / Outside Magazine:
15-year-old TripAdvisor with its 200M+ reviews shapes tourism economies but continues to struggle with bogus comments  —  Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor  —  Research almost any travel destination and you'll probably wind up on travel-industry Goliath, where passionate people praise …
Brian Barrett / Wired:
Chrome extension Ugly Mail identifies which of your Gmail emails are being monitored using pixel tracking  —  A Clever Way to Tell Which of Your Emails Are Being Tracked  —  While you've likely never heard of companies like Yeswear, Bananatag, and Streak, they almost certainly know a good deal about you.
More: Lifehacker.  Tweets: @propublica and @marshallk
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple Stops Supporting Windows 7 in Boot Camp on New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Models  —  Apple's newly refreshed MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro models no longer support running Windows 7 with Boot Camp, according to Apple's Boot Camp support document.  Boot Camp on the new notebooks …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality  —  Windows 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off.  —  Those of you with long memories will recall a barrage of complaints in the run up to Windows 8's launch that concerned the ability to install …
More: ExtremeTech and Slashdot.  Tweets: @dangillmor
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
US Customs facial recognition pilot program at Dulles airport raises privacy concerns  —  US Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport  —  The next time you come back from overseas and flash your American passport at Washington, DC's Dulles airport …
More: Slashdot
Andrew Hayward / stuff.tv:
Pebble pledges $1 million to crowdfund development of Pebble Time smartstraps … Closing in on US$20 million (£13.5 million) with more than a week left to go, the Kickstarter campaign for the Pebble Time is still going strong.  And Pebble hopes to push a little more interest by spending …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery plans more cost-cutting to hit financial targets for next year, including raising Max prices and the possibility of more layoffs

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
The New York Times Games rolls out a Wordle archive with 1,000+ past puzzles for “Games” and “All Access” subscribers, and adds its WordleBot to NYT Games app

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Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:
At Pwn2Own, researchers exploit fully patched versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE 11, and Safari, while payouts total $557K

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Aaron M. Kessler / New York Times:
Tesla's self-driving cars coming to US within 3 months, with autopilot enabled only on major roads; regulatory questions remain
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