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Apple, Google, and leading cryptologists urge President Obama in letter to reject backdoors in smartphones and other devices — Tech giants urge Obama to resist ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications — Tech behemoths including Apple and Google and leading cryptologists …
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Advocacy organizations from 31 countries say Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, security, privacy, and threatens freedom of expression — Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security — We, the undersigned … | Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Apple releases new $1,999 27-inch Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad — Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch — Apple is starting to bring the price down on its 5K Retina iMac, releasing a new version today that sells …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Inside Google's secret anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016 — Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans — Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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YotaPhone2 U.S. pre-orders open on Indiegogo starting at $500 with an August delivery — Russian mobile broadband provider and smartphone manufacturer Yota has finally revealed the U.S. pricing and pre-order details for the second version of its smartphone, the YotaPhone2, six months after its European launch.
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| Katie Benner / Bloomberg View: |
Jawbone's recent $300M investment from BlackRock was debt, not equity — Jawbone Gets a Loan and a Leash — Jawbone, the San Francisco maker of wearable technology, recently got a hefty $300 million investment from BlackRock, the largest and one of the most trusted asset management companies in the world.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Basis fitness tracker adds limited titanium edition, shares data with Apple Health and Google Fit — Basis now links its fitness data with Apple Health and Google Fit — Of all the fitness tracking wearables out there, Basis' Peak might be one of the most comprehensive.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover address-spoofing bug in latest iOS and OS X versions of Safari — Safari address-spoofing bug could be used in phishing, malware attacks — Flaw in latest iOS and OS X versions can deceive users about the site they're visiting. — From the department of things …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases first official Lightning Dock for iPhone 6/6 Plus for $39 — Apple Now Sells A Lightning Dock For Your iPhone — Apple has finally done what many had long hoped it would - released an official dock for Lightning-sporting iPhones, ranging from the 5 all the way up to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp On International Ambitions, The Apple Watch, The SF Housing Crisis And More — As part of a larger story about Pinterest's Jumpstart program — a new experiment in its international expansion — I sat down with Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp to talk about the company and its current goals.| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
State Department won't release Hillary Clinton's emails until January 2016 — The State Department is proposing a deadline of January 2016 to complete its review and public release of 55,000 pages of emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged on a private server and turned over to her former agency last December.Sponsor Posts
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