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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 …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon announces $290 Kindle Oasis, its thinnest Kindle to date, which comes with leather case that extends battery life; pre-orders open today, ships April 27 — Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made — Amazon's philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent …
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See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9 — Google today launched the second release of the Android N developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Google Calendar launches Goals feature on iOS and Android, which automatically schedules your self-improvement activities into gaps in your calendar — Google Calendar's new Goals will help find you time for self-improvement — Google Calendar turns 10 this year, but the service isn't ready …
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| Lucinda Shen / Fortune: |
GoPro poaches top Apple designer Daniel Coster to be VP of design; GoPro shares jump over 16% — GoPro Poached a Top Apple Designer and Shares Are Soaring — Shares of GoPro gpro popped nearly 16% in afternoon trading Wednesday after a report said the troubled camera maker had poached a member of Apple's aapl elite design group.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches feature that lets you pin emoji to moving objects in videos, rolling out on Android today, coming soon to iOS — Snapchat augments reality with 3D Stickers — Today Snapchat revealed its new 3D stickers that can be pinned to objects in a video and stick with them no matter how they or your camera move.
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| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Sling TV debuts $20/month streaming package featuring Fox channels and streaming on up to three devices simultaneously — Sling TV Launches New Multi-Stream Version With Fox Channels — New $20-a-month option won't have the Disney channels that are available in single-stream package| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's updated version of TensorFlow allows for machine learning using distributed computing — Google has given its open-source machine learning software a big upgrade — Last November, Google opened up its in-house machine learning software TensorFlow, making the program that powers …
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| 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.| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
The Email Privacy Act, which eliminates a loophole allowing authorities to get some electronic records without a warrant, clears House committee vote — Major online privacy bill easily clears first vote in Congress — A popular online privacy bill easily cleared its first hurdle in the House on Tuesday.
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Reuters, The Hill, AppleInsider, PCWorld, Electronic Frontier Foundation, USA Today and Politico. Thanks:@ericgeller
| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Facebook hires Regina Dugan, head of Google's ATAP and former DARPA chief, to lead new Building 8 R&D group that has budget of hundreds of millions of dollars — Google's ATAP Head Regina Dugan Joins Facebook To Start DARPA-Inspired Team — Regina Dugan, the high profile former head of DARPA …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Nest CEO Tony Fadell went to Google's all-hands meeting to defend Nest. Here's what he said. — After a spate of damning articles about Nest, CEO Tony Fadell came to the weekly staff meeting of sister company Google to counter the negative press and defend Nest's corporate culture and sales figures.
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| 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 … | Jeremy B. White / Sacramento Bee: |
California bill banning sale of phones with unbreakable encryption defeated in committee — California phone decryption bill defeated — Bill would penalize companies for not cooperating with law enforcement — Follows federal clash with FBI over San Bernardino shooter's phone
| 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 …
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