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Instagram to begin testing an algorithm-based personalized feed for users, moving away from reverse chronological order — Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm — For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order.
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Pennsylvania man charged with hacking iCloud, Gmail accounts of celebrities, admits to phishing, but prosecutors find no evidence that he shared images — Hacker Admits to Stealing Celebrity Nude Photos, Takes Plea Deal — Prosecutors estimate Ryan Collins, 36, accessed at least 50 iCloud accounts …
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Vic Gundotra's AliveCor is building a heart monitor band for the Apple Watch, waiting for FDA approval — Vic Gundotra, Former Google+ Boss, Is Building a Heart Monitor for the Apple Watch — AliveCor, a startup that builds heart-monitoring sensors for smartphones, is building sensors for another mobile device: The Apple Watch.| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple asks court to guard civil liberties in final filing ahead of March 22 hearing — Apple just filed its final response before it meets the FBI in court — Apple will face the FBI in federal court in California on March 22 to address whether it needs to help the agency break into San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone.
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Thanks:@stevetweedie| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
PlayStation VR headset to arrive in October for $399, less than Oculus Rift at $599 and HTC Vive at $799, but excludes camera required for gameplay — PlayStation VR will arrive in October for $399 — Sony took to the stage today during GDC 2016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Rift to have 30 titles at its March 28 launch, priced between $10 and $60, with Lucky's Tale bundled — The 29 Oculus Rift games you'll be able to buy at launch — Two weeks before Oculus launches its Rift virtual reality headset, we're learning what games people will be able to play on it …
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AWS makes Database Migration Service available to all customers — Amazon Web Services has now made its database migration service available to all of its customers, after completing the migration of over 1,000 databases since the first day of 2016. — Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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Amazon files patent for a process allowing users to authenticate by performing an action or gesture while taking a selfie — Amazon Wants the Patent for Pay-By-Selfie — First, Amazon patented one-click purchasing buying. Now it wants a patent for pay-by-selfie.
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Comcast debuts gigabit cable with uploads of 35Mbps in Atlanta at $70/month with 3-year contract, $140 without; Google's symmetrical gigabit Fiber is $70/month — Comcast offers gigabit cable for $70 a month with contract, $140 without — Uploads are only 35Mbps, and there's a data cap unless you sign the contract.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says 75% of web requests to its non-YouTube sites are now encrypted, up from about 50% two years ago — Google is giving itself an encryption report card — Today, Google added a new section to its transparency report, giving users a running tally of how many Google requests use HTTPS encryption.| Katie Zhu / The Story: |
Medium updates iOS and Android apps to add topic- and theme-based collections, curated by trusted human testers — Collections: Curating A More Browsable Medium — There's so many great stories published every day on Medium—it's hard to keep up. We're building a platform for authors …
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