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Source: General Motors will pay more than $1B for Cruise Automation — GM Buying Self-Driving Tech Startup for More Than $1 Billion — General Motors GM this morning announced that it will acquire Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicle technology.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
GM buys self-driving car kit startup Cruise, plans to use tech to make driverless cars — General Motors (GM)announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones that can drive themselves, for an undisclosed sum.
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
In new filing, DOJ accuses Apple of raising tech barriers that prevent execution of warrant; Apple calls DOJ “desperate”, plans to reply by March 15 — DOJ: Apple ‘deliberately’ made hurdles to FBI probe — The Justice Department on Thursday filed its latest response to Apple …
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
DOJ says it could make Apple turn over iOS source code and signature if it doesn't cooperate with court order, citing Lavabit case as precedent — FBI ‘could force Apple to hand over private key’ — A legal filing implies that Department of Justice has a plan B, which involves demanding the company's electronic signature
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Wire, the messaging app backed by Skype's Janus Friis, gets video calls and message encryption — It's been more than 15 months since Wire entered the competitive messaging app fray with the promise to build a Skype for the modern age — a promise given real credence by the backing of Skype cofounder Janus Friis.
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Behind Instacart's recent struggles, which show why certain industries won't fit the on-demand model — Inside Instacart's fraught and misguided quest to become the Uber of groceries — The changes Instacart outlined were grim. — Fees for customers were increasing.
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| Mellisa Tolentino / SiliconANGLE: |
New Amazon Alexa Voice Search skill allows you to pay Capital One credit card bill from pre-linked account, check balance, review recent transactions, more — Ask Amazon Alexa to pay your bills, with new Capital One app | #SXSW — Amazon Echo is on a roll.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches Haven OnDemand, the cloud version of its big data analytics software, on Azure — HPE launches machine-learning-as-a-service on Microsoft Azure — HPE Haven OnDemand provides application programming interfaces as well as services for enterprise software.
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Verisign: The number of DDoS attacks increased 85% in Q4 2015, compared to Q4 a year ago — DDoS attacks: Getting bigger and more dangerous all the time — Number of recorded DDoS attacks has almost doubled in a year, warns report. — Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) …
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| Tony Scott / The White House: |
US releases draft of open source software policy that would require software developed for or by the government to be shareable among Federal agencies — Leveraging American Ingenuity through Reusable and Open Source Software — Summary: Today, we're releasing for public comment … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD XConnect provides driver-level support for external Thunderbolt 3 graphics cards, starting with the Razer Core — More on AMD's XConnect Tech: Thunderbolt 3 for External Radeons — Last night AMD issued a driver update that brought support for a new technology, XConnect.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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