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US House committee skeptical of some FBI claims, also critical of Apple for offering no solution after both sides ask for laws on new encryption technologies — Apple and FBI in plea for encryption legislation — The FBI and Apple on Tuesday both urged Congress to produce legislation …
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Sony's next big PS4 update brings Remote Play to PC and Mac — Sony surprised a lot of people when it announced you'd be able to remotely play PlayStation 4 games on a PC or Mac back in November. But we're just as surprised at how quickly it's turned this around: Remote Play will come with the next big PlayStation software update.
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Jay Z's streaming music service Tidal has fired CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell — Tidal fires its CFO and COO — Tidal has let go of its CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell, the company confirmed to The Verge. The news of their terminations was originally reported by the Swedish news site Breakit … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook will now show Live Videos higher in News Feed provided they are currently live and not recordings — Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper ... and More Like Cable News — Facebook's News Feed long functioned as a sort of personalized newspaper—a collection of stories …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Brazilian authorities arrest senior Facebook exec Diego Dzodan, saying Facebook repeatedly disobeyed court order to help in drug case involving a WhatsApp user — Brazil Arrests Senior Facebook Exec Over WhatsApp Aid In Drug Case — Facebook's fb vice president for Latin America …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
SurveyMonkey to Lay Off 100 and Retool Business Product — Cloud-based polling service SurveyMonkey informed employees today that it is letting go of about 100 people in a plan to retool its product aimed at businesses, which is not living up to expectations.
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Zynga board member Frank Gibeau to replace founder Mark Pincus as CEO; Pincus now executive chairman — Mark Pincus is out as CEO of Zynga after less than a year — and a turnaround expert is in — Mark Pincus has stepped down from his role as CEO of publicly-traded social game developer Zynga …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft announces Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service for enterprise, uses cloud to detect breaches by analyzing system behavior — Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection uses cloud power to figure out you've been pwned — New service can detect network breaches by spotting unusual system behavior.
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BGR, The Register, Windows Blog, SecurityWeek, Digital Trends, Engadget, GeekWire, FierceCIO News, Fone Arena, ZDNet, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, International Business Times, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Neowin, VentureBeat and WinBeta. Tweets: @mimeframe
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
AT&T says it plans to launch a web TV service by this fall, to have three tiers including free — AT&T Says It Wants to Sell You Web TV, Too — We've been waiting for big, deep-pocketed players to join Dish's Sling TV and sell pay TV over the Web. Now AT&T says that's what it intends to do.
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The Verge, CNNMoney, Digital Trends, TIME, Android Police, DSLreports and InvestorPlace. See also Mediagazer
| Alan Travis / Guardian: |
Revised Investigatory Powers Bill introduced in UK parliament, said to include safeguards for privacy but requires ISPs store browsing data for 12 months — Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history — Latest version of investigatory powers bill …
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Telegraph, BetaNews, GOV.UK departments and policy, The Independent, TechCrunch, Irish Examiner, The Register, Motherboard, ComputerWeekly, Wired.co.uk, The Next Web, Inquirer, Fortune, The Register, Associated Press, International Business Times, privacyinternational.org, Business Insider, Don't Spy on Us and UK - The Huffington Post
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
SoundHound's virtual assistant Hound launches out of beta to take on Siri, with support for Uber and Yelp — SoundHound's virtual assistant launches out of beta to take on Siri, with support for Uber and Yelp — You may have thought that SoundHound had long ago ridden into the sunset, but you'd be wrong.| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Cisco to pay $260M for cloud management software provider CliQr — Cisco Just Spent Millions on This Hot Cloud Startup — Cisco's acquisition spree continues to roll in 2016. — The networking giant said on Tuesday that it will pay $260 million for cloud computing startup CliQr …
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SiliconANGLE, Cisco, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, The Register, InfoWorld, SiliconBeat, Talkin' Cloud, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business, Wall Street Journal, CRN and silicontap.com. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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