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| Tim Cook / Apple: |
Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent” — A Message to Our Customers — The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers.
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| Dan Guido / Trail of Bits Blog: |
iPhone 5C lacks Secure Enclave, makes it technically feasible for Apple to comply with court order over San Bernadino shooter — Apple can comply with the FBI court order — Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI's request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen's iPhone 5C.
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Tweets: @mattblaze and @juliaangwin
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Court orders Apple to disable 10-tries-and-wipe feature on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone to allow government to crack password through brute force — U.S. wants Apple to help unlock iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter — A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the government unlock …
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Tweets: @normative, @agcrocker and @mattblaze
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor — Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn't asking …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter rolling out a new GIF button for iOS, Android, and Twitter.com over coming weeks, in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter rolls out native GIF support in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter has added native support for GIFs, thanks to its partnership with Giphy and Riffsy.
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The Twitter Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, The Daily Dot, Fortune, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, Engadget and Boing Boing
Tweets: @caseynewton, @jguynn, @howardlindzon and @jbruin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Gmailify to let users of non-Gmail accounts take of advantage of Gmail's best features like spam detection, Google Now integrations, more — Google Launches “Gmailify” - A Way To Use Gmail's Best Features With Non-Gmail Accounts — Since early 2015, Google's Gmail Android app …
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Gmail Blog, Google Operating System, Android Authority, The Verge, BetaNews, BGR and The Next Web
| Office Blogs: |
Outlook.com exits preview, gets major update including @mentions in emails, side-by-side doc and email editing, Giphy integrations — Outlook.com—out of preview and better than ever — The Outlook team is on a mission to bring you the best email and calendar experience—at work, at home—across all your favorite devices.
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eWeek, PCWorld, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Windows Central, VentureBeat, The Fire Hose, Lifehacker, WinBeta, Neowin, Thurrott.com and WebProNews. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
U.S. Department of Defense to upgrade 4 million devices to Windows 10 by February 2017 — The U.S. Department of Defense is committing to upgrade roughly four million devices and systems running legacy versions of Windows to Windows 10 by February 2017. — The U.S. Department …
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Windows Blog, Computerworld, The Register, GeekWire, Re/code, WindowsITPro, Digital Trends, PCWorld, WPDang, WinBeta and Ars Technica
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company — If It's Wednesday, It's Layoffs Day at Yahoo: Today, Digital Magazines Get Hit — According to sources close to the situation …
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Yahoo, Politico, Eater, Ars Technica, Skift, TechCrunch and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @djbentley and @jyarow
See also Mediagazer| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12 — Facebook Will Make Instant Articles Available to All Publishers — As of April 12, almost a year after launch, any publisher can host content directly on the social media site
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Facebook Media, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Forbes, WebProNews, SocialTimes and Poynter. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Confidential internal data: Yahoo.com's daily active users declined 16.5% in 2015, Yahoo Mail down 11.5%, and Yahoo Search down 8.8% — The Death March of Yahoo's Core Products — The number of people visiting Yahoo's three most important products—Yahoo Mail, the Yahoo.com home page and Yahoo Search …
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches templates for new issues and pull requests — GitHub today announced the availability of templates that repository maintainers can add to forms for new issues and pull requests. The move might sound like a small thing, but it could result in more civil discussion among GitHub users.
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| Astro Teller / Backchannel: |
Plenty of Google X moonshot ideas are ditched, with 100 investigations killed last year, including vertical farming and variable buoyancy cargo ship projects — The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects — At X, I see up close every day how messy innovation is
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google expands its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries starting in San Francisco and Los Angeles, $35 minimum order — Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries, the latest example …
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The Verge, Re/code, SiliconBeat, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Phandroid, internetretailer.com, Engadget and CNET
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Custom Machine Types Come Out Of Beta, Now Support Red Hat And Windows — Custom Machine Types on Google's Cloud Platform allow you to choose exactly how many CPU cores and how much memory you want in a virtual machine to run your applications. Google first introduced this feature … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Leap Motion demos Orion, a motion tracking system and sensor for VR headsets — Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets — When Leap Motion was announced in 2012, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. A little black box that plugged … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft now selling licenses to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure, also announces Azure support for Walmart's OneOps app lifecycle management platform — Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure — Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses.
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Microsoft Azure, InfoWorld, PCWorld, The New Stack, Business Insider and CIO.com. Tweets: @marypcbuk
| Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Sprout Social raises $42M Series C from Goldman Sachs and New Enterprise Associates — Goldman Sachs Backs Social Media Management Software — Sprout Social, a six-year-old Chicago company specializing in social media management software, has more than doubled its venture backing …
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TechCrunch and Chicago Tribune
| Bryan Clark / The Next Web: |
Kanye West's new album downloaded 500K times on pirate sites, calls into question value of Tidal-only release — Kanye West's ‘Life of Pablo’ already pirated 500,000 times — Kanye West's new album ‘The Life of Pablo’ may have been released as exclusive to Jay-Z's streaming music service Tidal, but it didn't stay that way for long.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation — As consumers and businesses begin to focus on what form the next generation of computing may take beyond our current era of the smartphone, startups developing at the cutting edge of these concepts …
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MedCity News, Forbes, Bloomberg Business, Xconomy and VRFocus
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Fox Sports Inks 5-Year Virtual Reality Pact With NextVR — Fox Sports plans to bring a host of live virtual-reality experiences to sports fans — including this Sunday's Daytona 500 — under a five-year partnership with live-streaming specialist NextVR. — The parties claimed the pact … | Eric Schmidt / Jigsaw: |
Alphabet's Google Ideas think tank becomes Jigsaw, an incubator that uses technology to solve world issues like terrorism; Jared Cohen named president — Google Ideas becomes Jigsaw — Today we're announcing the expansion of Google Ideas, Google's think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches TensorFlow Serving, an open source project for taking machine learning models into production — Google Makes It Easier To Take Machine Learning Models Into Production — Google launched TensorFlow Serving today, a new open source project that aims to help developers …
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SiliconANGLE, Google Research Blog and ZDNet
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources EarlGrey UI testing framework for iOS apps — Google just open-sourced a tool for testing iOS apps — Google announced today that it has open-sourced EarlGrey, a piece of software that developers can use to more easily build and run user interface tests on source code for iOS apps.
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