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April 13, 2016, 3:45 AM

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook unveils Surround 360, a 17-lens, 3D VR camera, will open-source hardware designs and specs this summer, materials to build will cost $30K — This is Facebook's gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera — Hoping to dramatically increase the amount of 360-degree video on its platform …

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Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @mikeisaac, @marshallk and @lexnfx

Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld:

Facebook launches Account Kit, offering new analytics and login tools for developers, allowing users to sign up or log in to apps with just a phone number — Facebook helps developers with new analytics and login tools — Soon, developers will be able to see what their users do for a living

More: Facebook Developers, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ITworld.com, The Verge and Softpedia News. Tweets: @shiraovide

Cade Metz / Wired:

Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's future: Messenger bots, AI, live video, virtual reality, and open sourcing key technologies — How Will Zuckerberg Rule the World? By Giving Facebook's Tech Away — When Mark Zuckerberg took his first steps, his parents marked the date in a good old fashioned baby book.

More: New York Times, Refinery29, The Verge, The Next Web, Re/code, BuzzFeed, PCWorld, CIO.com, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Newsweek, USA Today and ZDNet

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook announces Rights Manager to help video creators combat freebooting; content owners can apply for access beginning today — Facebook launches video Rights Manager to combat freebooting — There's an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube …

More: Facebook Media, Facebook Developers, Slate, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Business Insider

Tweets: @joshconstine and @mikeisaac

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Aigerim Shorman / Facebook Developers:

Facebook's Profile Expression Kit lets users update their Facebook profile with videos from third-party apps, like Vine

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, The Verge, The Next Web, Forbes, Engadget and iMore

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook's Save feature has 250M monthly users, now lets developers add the button to their web sites

More: VentureBeat, Facebook for Developers, Marketing Land, Business Insider, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Tweets: @mollywood and @jguynn

Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:

A look at Mevo, Livestream's new $399 portable video camera hub, which can stream to Facebook's Live Video API out of the box

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Next Web

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots — Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, e-commerce guidance, content and interactive experiences through chatbots. By providing utility through its huge developer and business ecosystem …

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Facebook releases Bot Engine to help developers build more complex, machine-learning enabled bots, a further development from last year's Wit.ai acquisition — Facebook releases Bot Engine to create much smarter bots — Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference.

More: wit.ai, The Daily Dot, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook says it's testing allowing businesses to send sponsored messages in Messenger

More: Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider and GeekWire

Tweets: @mg and @joshconstine

Jessi Hempel / Wired:

Facebook's David Marcus on the future of Messenger, how brands integrate into the platform, and how there are no plans for a bot store

More: USA Today, USA Today, Tech Times, Facebook Developers, TechSpot, ZDNet, Android Central, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Lauren Goode / The Verge:

Messenger and WhatsApp process 60 billion messages a day, three times more than SMS

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Re/code and eWeek. See also Mediagazer

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Sources: FBI did not use Cellebrite to crack San Bernardino iPhone, paid hackers for undisclosed software flaw that was used to create hardware to crack PIN — FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone — The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Newser, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, CNET, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors. Tweets: @mepfuller. Thanks:@cauchon

Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com:

Logitech acquires Jaybird for about $50M in cash and $45M in potential earn-outs to expand into wireless audio wearables market — Logitech acquires Jaybird for $50 million (USD) in cash — Earlier this year ZAGG agreed to purchase Mophie for over $100 million.

More: Logitech Blog, Business Wire, ZDNet, Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Android Authority, TechCrunch, SlashGear, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Droid Life, Android Central, MacRumors and TechnoBuffalo

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

USB-IF announces new USB Type-C authentication spec so devices can verify certification status of accessories to avoid damage from rogue cables — A software fix for dangerous USB-C cables is coming — Now that it's becoming clear to everybody that it's distressingly easy to accidentally buy …

More: Ars Technica, Business Wire, Engadget, Fone Arena, Gizmodo, Android Central, MacRumors, Liliputing, Neowin and Laptop Mag

Narottam Medhora / Reuters:

Uber releases its first transparency report, showing it gave US regulatory agencies data on over 12M users and received 415 data requests from law enforcement — Uber says gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12 million users — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] on Tuesday released …

More: Medium, TechCrunch, The Stack, Mashable, MacNN, News. Pop Culture. Satire., SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Register, BBC, Engadget, Fortune, TIME, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Hill

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

HTC 10 hands on: SoC in parity with every high-end device in US, Super LCD 5 display one of best, smooth and responsive navigation — Hands On With The HTC 10: A Fresh Start — At this point it's probably not a secret that HTC has been struggling for the past few years.

More: DxOMark, 9to5Google, PCWorld, TechConnect, Android Police and Digital Trends. Thanks:@iancutress

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

HTC 10 launched with 5.2-inch quad HD display for $699, Snapdragon 820, 12MP camera, 3000mAh battery, AirPlay audio support, can pre-order now, ships next month

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Box teams up with AWS and IBM for Box Zones, which lets firms store files locally in Europe, Asia — Box Teams Up With Amazon, IBM to Offer Local Storage Worldwide — Cloud storage company Box is making an effort to widen its appeal as the office file storage and sharing product …

More: AdExchanger, Box, GeekWire, eWeek, Silicon Valley Business …, Data Center Knowledge, The Register, diginomica, Investor's Business Daily, AWS Blog, PCWorld, Wired, VentureBeat, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg and TechCrunch

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