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Apple To Debut New iPad, 4-Inch iPhone On March 21, Day Before FBI Hearing — Apple's first media event of 2016 will occur one day prior to the company's March 22 showdown with the government over a motion that would compel it to help hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo: new 4-inch iPhone to cost $400-$500, have 12MP rear-facing camera, 1,642 mAh battery; iPhone 5s to receive 50% price cut — New 4" iPhone With 12MP Camera Said to Cost $400-$500, iPhone 5s to Receive 50% Price Cut — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp to end support for BlackBerry, Nokia, and other older operating systems by the end of 2016 — WhatsApp is to cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016, the company announced yesterday. — With Android and iOS dominating the smartphone realm … | Charles Duhigg / New York Times: |
Inside Project Aristotle, Google's study of what makes some teams succeed while others fail — What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team … Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn't a good match.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Mark Zuckerberg Is ‘Obsessed’ With Livestreaming, Making Live a Top Priority at Facebook — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a heightened interest in livestreaming over the past few months, redirecting internal resources to help build out the company's Live product that lets people broadcast video …
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Zumper acquires Padmapper for under $10M to take on Craigslist in apartment listings — Apartment Hunting Sites Padmapper And Zumper Are Joining Forces — It's 2016. Rooms full of people are strapping virtual reality googles to their faces, automated personal assistants are appearing in our phones …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Really understanding Apple's legal brief in the FBI case — The fight between Apple and the FBI over the security protections on the San Bernadino iPhone has been fierce for the past few weeks, but it's mostly been a PR battle thus far. From a legal and procedural standpoint …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Phone makers like Samsung embrace Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipset for 2016 flaships after avoiding last year's problematic 810 — Qualcomm is back with a vengeance — The biggest winner of Mobile World Congress 2016 wasn't a phone or a phone manufacturer, but a phone chip manufacturer: Qualcomm.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Oculus Has Hired Former Flipboard, Hulu Product Exec Eugene Wei to Run Video — Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company, has hired former Hulu SVP Eugene Wei as its new head of video. Wei was most recently head of product at Flipboard, and also spent seven years at Amazon beginning in the late '90s.
Tweets: @hunterwalk
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube creates a team to minimize copyright violations, more changes in the coming months — In the past weeks, several large YouTubers have been hit with apparent copyright violations that have led to video removals and loss of revenue. In response, YouTube has announced they are working … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Nissan pulls the Leaf's phone app after security vulnerabilities come to light — Just a day after news spread that Nissan Leaf's NissanConnect app could be compromised by hackers to control fan settings (potentially draining the battery) and download logs of past drives …
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USA Today, Ars Technica, Wired.co.uk, Car and Driver Blog, Bloomberg Business, Roadshow, Motor Trend, Washington Post and Computerworld. Tweets: @scott_helme
| Hudson Hongo / New York Magazine: |
Weird Facebook, filled with memes that were once reserved for 4chan and Tumblr, is making Facebook fun for teens again — The Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World's Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again (and Why It Matters) — Facebook has transformed from the site where relatives post screenshots … Sponsor Posts
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