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Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz and located in San Francisco — Google Preps New Corporate Incubator — Sundar Pichai has a new plan to stop Google employees from jumping ship to start companies: Create a startup incubator within Google.| Dan Grover: |
WeChat PM: chat apps succeed when they streamline high-friction processes like app installation, login, and payment, not when they rely on conversational UI — Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. — Lately, everyone's talking about “conversational UI.” It's the next big thing.
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US Department of Justice drops appeal seeking Apple's help in unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn case after it obtains passcode — U.S. Drops Appeal Seeking Apple Help in Brooklyn IPhone Case — The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.'s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer …
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Toosheh lets Iranians use their ubiquitous satellite TV dishes to download videos, cirumventing the nation's slow, expensive, censored internet — The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet — Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working … | Bloomberg: |
Young fans of Valve's Counter-Strike flock to independent, unregulated sites to bet valuable virtual weapons on pro matches — Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers — The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets.| Wall Street Journal: |
Monthly data limits by home broadband providers increasingly forcing consumers to cut back or cancel streaming video services in the US — Broadband Data Caps Pressure ‘Cord Cutters’ — Monthly limits by home Internet providers like Comcast and AT&T force people who stream Netflix or Sling TV to ration Web use| Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept: |
Boston district court judge rules FBI hacking in child porn sting was illegal because magistrate judge that issued the search warrant was in another district — FBI Mass Child-Porn Hack Ruled Illegal on a Technicality — When the FBI hacked over 1,000 computers to ensnare consumers …
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An unsecured database with 93.4M Mexican voter records found hosted on AWS, now taken offline — Personal info of 93.4 million Mexicans exposed on Amazon (UPDATED) — In today's installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD climbed 52% Friday after announcing $293M deal to license processor and system-on-chip technology to China-backed joint venture THATIC — AMD Soars on Agreement to License Chip Technology for China — Struggling chipmaker looking for ways to monetize technology| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
Baidu is building a 100-person autonomous car team in Silicon Valley — Chinese search giant Baidu has formed a team dedicated to its self-driving car efforts in Silicon Valley, taking its autonomous car ambitions to Google's home turf. The team, which Baidu announced in a press release … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
All Apple Watch Apps Must Be Native Apps Starting on June 1 — Apple today informed developers that starting on June 1, 2016, all watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be native apps built with the watchOS 2 SDK or later. — When the Apple Watch first launched …
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| Eric Lichtblau / New York Times: |
Six prominent ex-national security officials, who now work at firms with ties to the tech sector, support Apple on encryption — On Encryption Battle, Apple Has Advocates in Ex-National Security Officials — WASHINGTON — In their years together as top national security officials … Sponsor Posts
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