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Sources: Apple's virtual and augmented reality research team includes hundreds of staff from poaching and acquisitions; Apple confirms purchase of Flyby Media — Apple builds secret team to kick-start virtual reality effort — Apple has assembled a large team of experts in virtual …
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| Danny Yadron / Guardian: |
Ashkan Soltani, who contributed to reporting on Snowden docs, departs White House Office of Science and Technology Policy after being denied security clearance — White House denies clearance to tech researcher with links to Snowden — Pulitzer prize-winning journalist …
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| Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Documents reveal Alphabet is testing solar-powered internet drones that use millimeter-wave transmissions — Project Skybender: Google's secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed — Trials at New Mexico's Spaceport Authority are using new millimetre wave technology to deliver data from drones - potentially 40 times faster than 4G
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Facebook announces it is banning private, person-to-person sales of guns on its network and Instagram — Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site — Facebook is banning private sales of guns on its flagship social network and on its Instagram photo-sharing service, the company said late Friday.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
NSA, GCHQ used open source software to spy on Israeli, Syrian drones — Image tools unscrambled encrypted analog video feeds, documents reveal. — Documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden show new evidence of a long-running surveillance campaign …
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| Joe Drape / New York Times: |
Vantiv, a firm handling millions of FanDuel and DraftKings transactions, to stop processing fantasy sports payments on February 29, citing legal cases — Payment Processor to Stop Working With Daily Fantasy Sports Clients — In perhaps the biggest blow yet to daily fantasy sports …
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| John Callaham / Android Central: |
Fewer than 700 Jolla Tablets will ever ship; 21K backers may eventually get a refund — Fewer than 700 Jolla Tablets will ever ship; 21,000 backers will eventually maybe get a refund — Just 540 additional Jolla Tablets will be shipped out to backers of the original Indiegogo crowdsourced campaign …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Google Fiber is sending invitations to trusted testers for experimental telephone service called Google Fiber Phone, similar to Google Voice — Google Fiber may be looking to add phone services — Google Fiber is sending out invitations to an experimental telephone service …
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| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
EA's CFO estimates 55M current-gen consoles have been sold, putting Xbox One at around 19M or less units sold — We now have a clearer picture of how Xbox One is doing — Thanks, EA! — Microsoft doesn't report Xbox One sales any more, but we have a decent idea of how it's doing - thanks to EA.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick releases 51-page brief concluding T-Mobile's Binge On violates FCC's Open Internet Rules — Stanford study: T-Mobile's Binge On is ‘likely illegal’ — The debate over the potential harm of T-Mobile's Binge On continues, with a new study …
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| Sarah Lacy / Pando: |
Birchbox lays off 15% of staff, citing funding environment and a need to rebalance the company — Founder Katia Beauchamp tells Pando: “It's 100% the right decision for the company.” — From The Lessons from the Trenches Desk — This member-only article was unlocked for you by Andrea Wasserman.| Christina Farr / Fast Company: |
Apple fixing issue that directed users searching “abortion” to adoption and fertility centers, nearly five years after it was first identified — Apple Maps Stops Sending People Searching For “Abortion” To Adoption Centers — Apple is fixing a flaw in its algorithm …
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