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LA judge compels woman to unlock iPhone with fingerprint, sparking 5th amendment debate — The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed? — In a Glendale case, the FBI wants the fingerprint of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan so her iPhone can be unlocked.
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| David Kushner / Foreign Policy: |
Profile of David Vincenzetti, founder of the Hacking Team whose spyware was used by over 40 governments worldwide — Fear This Man … As the sun rose over the banks of the Seine and the medieval, half-timbered houses of Rouen, France, on July 13, 2012, Hisham Almiraat opened his inbox to find … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Hulu hopes to launch an online TV service that streams popular broadcast and cable TV channels in Q1 2017 — Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service — New subscription service would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels
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ZDNet, The Verge, Re/code and Mashable
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See also Mediagazer| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Samsung Is Working On a Standalone Virtual Reality Headset … Samsung's plans for virtual reality go beyond the company's current Gear VR headset: The company is working on a standalone virtual reality (VR) headset that will incorporate positional tracking similar to the technologies …
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Road to VR, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, UploadVR, Fone Arena, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Quartz, VG247, Phandroid, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, Android Authority, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and GamesIndustry.biz. Tweets: @benbajarin. Thanks:@jank0
| Anna Wiener / n+1: |
A first-person narrative on the allure and anxiety of working at a Silicon Valley startup — Uncanny Valley — I would say more, but I signed an NDA. — MORALE IS DOWN. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture …
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Business Insider and Global Nerdy. Tweets: @cindygallop, @molly_g, @andreahong, @nickbilton, @leighalexander, @ftrain, @ashleymayer, @qhardy, @tomkrazit, @calebgarling, @ibogost, @willoremus and @xor
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Uber settles with National Federation of the Blind, will pay $225K over 3 years, notify drivers they must provide transport to customers with service animals — Uber agrees to $225,000 settlement in lawsuit alleging discrimination against the blind — Uber has agreed to pay the National Federation …
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Uber Global, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, Geek News Central and Digital Trends. Tweets: @verge
| The Intercept: |
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper complains that Edward Snowden sped up spread of encryption by seven years — Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years — THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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| Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg: |
Study finds Silicon Valley engineering interns earn $81,600 per year compared with national wage index of $46,481.52 — Do You Earn Less Than a Silicon Valley Intern? — The vast majority of interns in a recent survey said they did not attempt to negotiate their salary.| Sam Knight / Guardian: |
How Uber built its business in London from 5,000 to 1.7M active riders in three years — How Uber conquered London — To understand how the $60bn company is taking over the world, you need to stop thinking about cars — very week in London, 30,000 people download Uber to their phones and order a car for the first time.
Tweets: @monique_borst and @russellbuckley
| Will Freeman / Guardian: |
Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell plans to revive “fundamental game design” of arcades in mobile games — Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone — Video games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to make mobile titles worth playing
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| Bloomberg: |
A history of Marissa Mayer's tenure at Yahoo, and why her efforts haven't been enough to turn the company around — Yahoo's $8 Billion Black Hole — These moves haven't mollified investors. In March, Starboard Value, which once got the board of Darden Restaurants replaced by …
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Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @stevesi, @hunterwalk, @benthompson, @alexcartaz, @editorialiste, @dannysullivan, @bradstone, @ericjackson and @willoremus
| Julian Sanchez / Just Security: |
Feinstein-Burr anti-encryption bill is so broad that it could ban modern web browsers — Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser — Last week, I criticized the confused rhetorical framework that the Feinstein-Burr encryption backdoor proposal tries to impose on the ongoing Crypto Wars 2.0 debate.Sponsor Posts
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