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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.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Critics say CISA won't boost security, will allow private companies to share more user data with government — CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying — When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1 … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
How Life360 prevailed in court after its CEO sent “Dear Piece of S**t” letter to AGIS, a company suing them for patent infringement — How Life360 won its patent war — Jury saw CEO's “Dear piece of s**t” letter to his “patent troll”—and understood.
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Kleiner defense rests its case, and judge rules Ellen Pao may indeed seek punitive damages — Pao Vs. Kleiner Defense Rests Its Case, Showcasing A Different Side Of The Story — Yesterday afternoon, the legal team representing venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rested … | Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review: |
Despite recent advances by HoloLens and Magic Leap, miniaturization of components is essential for commercializing augmented reality tech — Reality Check: Comparing HoloLens and Magic Leap — I've seen two competing visions for a future in which virtual objects are merged seamlessly with the real world.| Ellen Huet / Forbes: |
Newly merged Kuaidi-Didi reportedly controls 99% of Chinese taxi-hailing market, claims 6M rides per day, putting Uber's future in China at risk — In Wake Of Kuaidi-Didi Merger, Uber Faces An Even Tougher Battle In China — During the Lunar New Year in China, taxi-hailing app Kuaidi showered its riders with red envelopes.
Tweets: @stefan_heck, @chen_liyan and @ellenhuet
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Broadwell 13" Macbook Pro and Air reviewed: good specs for price and size, marginal difference in speed, display on Air is inferior to similarly priced laptops — 13-inch Broadwell MacBook showdown: Should you go Pro or get an Air? — Review: The 2015 Broadwell refreshes are similar, but not identical.
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| Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t: |
Advice for raising seed in a feeding frenzy: anticipate your A round, raise what you need, and hire VCs like employees — An Open Letter to YC Founders on Demo Day Eve — It's YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It's frankly kinda tired.
Tweets: @jess, @trengriffin, @cynthiaschames, @abrams, @mdudas, @cdixon, @mgsiegler and @semil
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Universal pushes Spotify to add limits to its free tier during licensing negotiations — Universal takes on Spotify freemium model — The “freemium” model used by Spotify to amass 60m users and 15m paying subscribers around the world is facing a new challenge just months …
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Rolling Stone, The Verge, Engadget, Thai Tech, IBNLive, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Telegraph and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Former Twitter employee files class action lawsuit for gender discrimination, says company's hiring and promotion processes favor men — Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination — A former software engineer says the company's promotion process favors men
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Mashable, Reuters, TIME, PandoDaily, Courthouse News Service, TechCrunch, CNET, SlashGear and Mercury News. Tweets: @brycecovert
| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
Apple's new haptic trackpad suggests a future in which we won't just see interfaces but also feel them — Apple's Haptic Tech Makes Way for Tomorrow's Touchable UIs — If you're into magic tricks, stop by an Apple Store and park yourself in front of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro.| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Market saturation, rising monthly fees, lack of innovation, and broadband expansion make cable TV's decline inevitable in the US — Peak Cable — Paying for TV has been a curious consumer phenomenon. There was a time when TV was free to consumers. It was delivered as a broadcast …
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Mashable, Beyond Search and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @jonsteinberg, @caseynewton, @michaelpinto and @themurdochtimes
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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 …
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ABC News, 9to5Mac, Fortune, TrustedReviews, Daily Mail, TechRadar.com, MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, Engadget, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iClarified, The Next Web, BGR, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, App Advice, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider and SlashGear. Tweets: @chrismlacy
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