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Q&A with Apple CEO Tim Cook on user privacy, US security, and Apple's fight with the FBI — Here's the Full Transcript of TIME's Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook — Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with TIME's Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman on March 10 to discuss his company's rapidly escalating fight with the FBI over encryption.
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| Susan Crawford / Backchannel: |
Apple will prevail over FBI because of CALEA, which trumps All Writs Act and limits government authority to dictate phone design and configuration — The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS — Barack Obama has a fine legal mind. But he may not have been using it when he talked about encryption last week.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
| Bloomberg Business: |
Startup L. Jackson revealed to be Parker Thompson, a VC who works for AngelList — Unmasking Startup L. Jackson, Silicon Valley's Favorite Twitter Persona — The anonymous tech personality is a venture capitalist but not any of the ones people thought. — Startup L. Jackson didn't even say goodbye.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube and Google Play agree to join T-Mobile's Binge On Program, following criticism of video throttling — YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV will now participate in T-Mobile's “Binge On” program, which offers cellular subscribers the ability to watch a variety of services without those streams counting against users' data plans.
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Sources: Alphabet puts Boston Dynamics robotics unit up for sale because it is unlikely to produce marketable product in next few years — Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat — Alphabet executives questioned path to marketable products — Toyota, Amazon are among possible acquirers of division
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Sources: Apple signs deal with Google, spending $400M-$600M on Google Cloud Platform, reducing its reliance on AWS — Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts Spending With AWS — Pages — Alphabet's Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign …
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| Luke Edwards / Pocket-lint: |
Samsung developing Entrim 4D VR headphones that aim to offer a feeling of motion by stimulating ear nerves; tech should also reduce headaches and nausea — Samsung Entrim 4D VR uses nerve signals to make you feel you're really flying — While 2016 is the year of virtual reality Samsung … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 Mobile to Windows Phone 8.1 devices — As we revealed yesterday, Microsoft today started rolling out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Windows Phone devices. Specifically, Microsoft is starting with the following phones: Lumia 1520, 930, 640, 640XL …
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| Reuters: |
German court rules Apple violated OpenTV streaming video patents, orders company to stop selling infringing products in Germany — German court rules against Apple in video streaming patent case — A German court has ruled against Apple Inc in a case over video streaming patents … | Marie / Uber Global: |
Uber launches Family Profiles in Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, letting users link up to 10 family members or friends to one account — Brought to You by Popular Demand: Family Profiles — As more people use Uber, feedback from riders and drivers has become an important source of inspiration for new app features.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Razer says updated $2K Razer Blade gaming laptop and $500 external graphics card enclosure Razer Core are shipping in April — For $2K, Razer gives you a super-thin gaming laptop — Razer is unveiling the latest model in its line of gamer laptops, the Razer Blade.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Xbox One will be able to run Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps later this summer, as the Xbox Store and the Windows Store get merged into one — Microsoft is mashing Windows and the Xbox together to win over its most critical market — When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in the summer of 2015 … Sponsor Posts
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