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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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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue …
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| 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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| 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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| Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: |
A look at early reactions from lawmakers and candidates Trump and Kasich to Apple's encryption standoff with the FBI — Should Apple unlock a phone tied to the San Bernardino attack? Lawmakers say yes and no — Add this to the list of controversies facing Capitol Hill.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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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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Tweets: @caseynewton, @twitterau, @howardlindzon, @jguynn and @jbruin
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages — Twitter may be in the middle of an existential crisis of sorts over where to take its slow-growing social network, but the company keeps plugging away at basic features to bring the service up to speed with competitors like Facebook Messenger.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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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, Engadget, The Next Web, FierceCIO News, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, Thurrott.com, WinBeta, Neowin, Windows Central, VentureBeat and Lifehacker. 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 … | 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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues — Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.
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| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango — Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster From Warner Bros Entertainment — BREAKING: Fandango is set to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes …
| 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| 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, WinBeta, CIO.com, The New Stack and New York News. Tweets: @marypcbuk
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
NetApp to cut 12 percent of its workforce amid weaker sales — NetApp said it will restructure so it can invest in key areas like all-flash arrays. The third quarter sales and outlook for the company missed the mark. — NetApp's will lay off 12 percent of its workforce following a rough third quarter and outlook.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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 …
| 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 … | 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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