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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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| 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How the FBI is essentially asking Apple for a master key for iPhones, and why the PR optics are bad for Apple in shooter case — [FREE] Apple Versus the FBI, Understanding iPhone Encryption, The Risks for Apple and Encryption — Today's update is a bit tardy for good reason …
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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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| 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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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.| Diego Macias / Android Headlines: |
Google Translate adds 13 new languages bringing total to 103, now serves 99% of online population — Google Translate Update Adds New Language Support — Google Translate is a very powerful and useful tool which has been getting better over time. The service can be used to translate text … | 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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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
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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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Neverware updates CloudReady, a modified version of Chromium with dual-booting capability for Macs and PCs — How to turn your sluggish old Mac or PC into a faster Chromebook — Earlier today we published a story about Neverware, a New York City startup that is helping schools refurbish old Windows PCs … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Tianjin Tianhai buys tech distributor Ingram Micro for $6 billion — Ingram's management is expected to stay in place as the company fetches a nice premium. — Tech distributor Ingram Micro will be acquired by a unit of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group. — In a statement …
| 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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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Nvidia reports quarterly revenue up 12% to $1.40B on higher chip demand, GAAP net income up 7% YoY to $207M, rising interest in deep learning tech; stock up 6%+ — Nvidia touts deep learning success in Q4 earnings win — The graphics chipmaker revenue of $1.4 billion, up 12 percent year-over-year.
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AnandTech, NVIDIA Newsroom, The Tech Report and Reuters
| 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 … | 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: |
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