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Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple readies iPhone 5se for March/April with 4-inch screen, curved edges, Live Photos, 8MP rear camera, A8 and M8 chips, barometer, NFC chip, more — Apple readies ‘iPhone 5se’, not ‘6c’, for March/April with curved edges & Live Photos — That purported 4-inch “iPhone 6c” floating around the web yesterday?
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| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.
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| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How Larry Page's interests in robots, nuclear fusion, and more are shaping Google's shift to Alphabet — How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business — Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype helps users avoid harassment by hiding IP addresses — Microsoft is finally making IP addresses hidden by default on Skype. Reports surfaced around four years ago noting that a flaw in Skype allowed malicious users to obtain IP addresses through the service.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to update Apple Watch in mid-March with new bands, OS + full redesign in fall — Jeff Williams announcing September Apple Watch updates - AFP — In addition to launching a new 4-inch iPhone likely called the “iPhone 5se,” Apple plans to announce new Apple Watch models in March.| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Some who invested in failing payments startup Clinkle asked for their money back — Clinkle Up In Smoke As Investors Want Their Money Back — On Sept. 23, 2013, Lucas Duplan was on top of the world. Having finished a computer science degree at Stanford University the year before …
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| Nitish Kulkarni / TechCrunch: |
Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Online payday loan provider LendUp raises $150M Series B, launches its own credit card and a companion app that can be used to halt or monitor purchases — LendUp Scores $150M For A Credit Card That Won't Screw You Over — Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help people avoid debt … | Eric Yoder / Washington Post: |
Obama administration says a newly-created agency will conduct federal background checks, and DOD will store records, after internal review following OPM breach — Pentagon to take over control of background investigation information — Updated: — The government will shift responsibility …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Months after release of Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, issues like Intel display driver crashes, power management bugs, and boot problems linger — Welcome to Surfacegate — Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — Microsoft is having its iPhone 4 “Antennagate” moment … | James Risley / GeekWire: |
Amazon brings personalized sports updates, movie theater details to Echo … Updates to Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant are coming in thick and fast, with Jeopardy! showing up on the Echo smart speaker last week and the ability to start your car coming in the future.
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