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March 28, 2016, 2:00 AM

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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile — Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.

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Brian Barrett / Wired:

A look at how Netflix handles major premieres, VPN usage, local competition, and more after expansion to 130 new countries — Netflix's Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World — Late into the night on St. Patrick's Day, Netflix hosted a makeshift “war room” at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters.

More: Gizmodo and Fortune. Tweets: @john_bailey

Stephen Lovely / AllFlicks:

Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years — It's not your imagination - Netflix's catalog is getting smaller. As competition in the OTT streaming space has increased, Netflix's once-massive selection has decreased. In fact, it has shrunk by a third in less than two and a half years.

More: Digital Trends, Slashdot, Fortune, TIME, Tech Times, Business Insider, Droid Life and BGR

Tweets: @sambeal and @ericjackson

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Peter Rubin / Wired:

Behind the development of Oculus Rift, now shipping with a simplified interface and a refined setup process — The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR — Palmer Luckey has never used an Oculus Rift. — That's what the founder of Oculus keeps telling himself …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Re/code

Tweets: @mhbergen, @palmerluckey and @joshconstine

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

While games dominate VR now, we will find many more uses for it, just as we did with PCs

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

VC deals and investments in VR and AR have tripled since Facebook acquired Oculus for $2B two years ago

More: MacNN, VentureBeat, CNET, Business Insider, Windows Central, The Next Web and Crowdfund Insider. Thanks:@aprilolanoff

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Some users reporting iPhone crashes on iOS 9.3 when tapping links in Safari and other apps [Update] — Update: Although details around the problem with iOS 9.3 links causing hangs and crashes remain sparse, it appears to be related to the third-party apps a user installed on the system.

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

KGI: Apple planning new iPhone model for 2017 with curved glass case, 5.8-inch AMOLED display, and wireless charging — New iPhone model with curved glass case, 5.8" AMOLED display due in 2017, insider says — Apple has plans to introduce a new high-end iPhone model in 2017 that sports …

More: Forbes, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, NEWS.com.au, Pocketnow, VentureBeat, CNET, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneDog.com, Redmond Pie, Investor's Business Daily, BGR, Patently Apple, ZDNet, PhoneArena, iClarified and iMore. Tweets: @abdophoto. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81

Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary reveal their $30M fund is now valued at $250M with investments in 70+ startups including Airbnb, Uber, Shazam, Skype, and Spotify — How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb

Tweets: @benioff and @davemcclure

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Sources: Dell may announce $3.5B sale of IT services unit to Japan's NTT as soon as Monday — Dell could announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japan's NTT for $3.5 billion as soon as Monday — Capping a process that began late last year, Dell could announce as early as Monday …

More: VentureBeat and SiliconANGLE

Henrik Joreteg / Henrik Joreteg's Blog:

Why one web developer left iOS: Progressive Web Apps are indistinguishable from native apps on Android, but not on iOS due to some WebKit limitations — Why I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS — Monday of last week I was all excited. I had just gotten the green light …

More: Chris Thoburn. Tweets: @mattcutts, @chadwallacehart and @brendandburns

Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

In Angola, Wikipedia Zero and Facebook Free Basics are being used to create a clandestine file sharing network — Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism — Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet.

More: Engadget, ResearchBuzz, Motherboard and Techdirt

Tweets: @benedictevans, @stevesi, @derektmead and @stevesi

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