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FBI director James Comey: legal issue in Apple case is narrow, intent isn't to break encryption or set loose a master key — We Could Not Look the Survivors in the Eye if We Did Not Follow this Lead — The San Bernardino litigation isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
In Employee Email, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Commission On Interaction Of Technology And Intelligence Gathering — Early this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email out to employees about the FBI's request to unlock an iPhone with the subject line ‘Thank you for your support’.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook announces Telecom Infra Project, an open, collaborative effort to accelerate innovation in telecom networks; Intel, Nokia, several telecoms are members — Facebook Will Open Source Wireless Gear to Forge a 5G World — A year ago, when he appeared onstage at the Mobile World Congress …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM deepens partnerships with VMware, GitHub, Bitly, and Siemens, expands use of Apple's Swift language, announces new Watson APIs, more — IBM Inks VMware, GitHub, Bitly Deals, Expands Apple Swift Use As It Doubles Down On The Cloud — While a large part of the mobile industry swirls around …
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Cyanogen launches new Mod platform to let 3rd-party apps use Cyanogen APIs for deeper OS integration; Cortana, TrueCaller, Hyperlapse, Skype among Mods debuting — Cyanogen Launches A New MOD Platform For Deeper Integration Of Apps In Android — Not To Be Confused With The CyanogenMod Custom ROM
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Big Bet That Facebook Can Make VR Social — This week, inside Facebook's California headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg spent twenty minutes playing zero-gravity ping pong with the president of Indonesia. — This is how it works at Facebook.
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Facebook releases global connectivity report estimating 3.2B people online in 2015 (up from 3B in 2014), publishes new population density maps — State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access — State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access … | Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Sony launches Xperia X and XA new flagship phones with better cameras, teases AI-powered connected Xperia Ear, Eye, Projector, and Agent concept devices — Sony's new Xperia smartphones arrive with a range of odd connected devices in tow — Sony has launched two new smartphones today …
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| Leanna Garfield / Business Insider: |
Student-made free chat bot lawyer has successfully appealed $3M in UK parking tickets so far — A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets — Hiring a lawyer for a parking-ticket appeal is not only a headache, but it can also cost more than the ticket itself.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Finance startups like Tokken step in to aid pot dispensaries unserved by wary banks — As Marijuana Sales Grow, Start-Ups Step In for Wary Banks — When Lamine Zarrad was not at his job as a federal banking regulator in recent months, he was spending a lot of time at Denver's marijuana dispensaries.| Chris Dixon: |
Convergence of cheap smartphone chips and sensors embedded in everything, and open source AI tools may soon usher the next wave of computing — What's Next in Computing? — The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Profile of Neverware, a company helping hundreds of schools across the US resurrect old PCs with CloudReady, its Chromium-based OS — Learning the Alphabet — The Ovid-Elsie school district sits an hour west of Flint, Michigan, the city now notorious for being poisoned by its own penny-pinching administrators.
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