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Nintendo says Super Mario Run was downloaded 40M+ times in its first 4 days of availability, breaking iOS App Store records — Nintendo has confirmed what we all knew was likely - Super Mario Run got a lot of downloads at launch. The company says that the app was downloaded …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group report says encryption backdoors pose a security threat, siding with tech experts — Today, the House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies.
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House Judiciary Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, CIO.com, Silicon Republic, Vocativ, Cyberscoop, Multichannel News, Errata Security, and The Register
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| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
EU's top court rules “general and indiscriminate retention” of electronic communications is illegal, possibly opening UK's Snoopers Charter to legal challenges — Indiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis
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Tweets: @libertyhq, @openrightsgroup, @ggreenwald, @glinner, @peterkofod, @sheldrake, @paul__johnson, @old_pyjamas, @lordstras, and @paul__johnson
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AT&T announces Call Protect, a new service for automated blocking of spam calls at network level; feature only available on postpaid iOS and Android devices — Today, AT&T introduced a new service for automated blocking of fraud or spam calls. Dubbed AT&T Call Protect … | Steven Overly / Washington Post: |
White House report: AI will lead to long-term growth in productivity and efficiency but will likely lead to millions of job losses in low-skill sectors — The growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology will likely lead to millions of lost jobs, especially among less-educated workers …
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The White House, Recode, CNBC, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, BuzzFeed, Quartz, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Hill, and GeekWire
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| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10 — Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).| Andrew J / The Verge: |
Uber debuts several Snapchat filters unlocked in-app which display travel time to destination, the company's logo, more — Uber's app just got a lot more snappy — Last month, Uber unveiled a totally redesigned and streamlined version of its app that featured a cleaner interface … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sling TV website shows details for AirTV Player, a new Android-powered device with an interface that combines Sling TV with over-the-air broadcasts and Netflix — Putting streaming and antenna TV channels all in the same guide — Dish's Sling TV website has (perhaps prematurely) unveiled a new set-top box, the AirTV Player.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Twitter CTO Adam Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland to leave company; McFarland to join Greylock Partners as a general partner — Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company's CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said today he was leaving the company.
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Tweets: @adam_messinger, @crazyfoo, @sfiegerman, @jack, @greylockvc, @caseynewton, @joshelman, @hunterwalk, @caseynewton, and @joshconstine
| Spencer Woodman / The Verge: |
Data mining firm Palantir, co-founded by Trump advisor Thiel, has helped US border authorities track immigrants, positioning it well for Trump's stated policies — Training materials obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show Palantir has played a role in a far-reaching customs system
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The Verge. Tweets: @levynews, @mvzelenks, @paleofuture, @sal19, @jake_k, @spencerwoodman, and @mekosoff
| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Verizon “supercookie” partner Turn settles with FTC over privacy violations charges that it continued tracking consumers even after they opted out of tracking — The ad tech firm was found continuing to track users even after they opted-out. — Turn, which operates …
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Federal Trade Commission, Consumerist, Turn, MediaPost, Engadget, The Register, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @juliaangwin and @marketingland
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer cuts growth forecasts for US smartwatch market in 2016 from 60% to 25% YoY, citing lack of clear use case — Apple may still be claimingthat sales of its Apple Watch are “doing great,” but overall, the wearable device category is failing to grow at the rates forecasted earlier.
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eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, TheStreet.com, CNBC, Business Insider, Mobile Marketing Watch, and Fortune. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry posts $301M Q3 revenue, below expected $332M; declining smartphone unit made up 23% of company's revenue as software and services made up 55% — Albeit a small profit, the stock jumped by more than 2 percent. — BlackBerry's big bet on software and services is making progress — albeit slowly.
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Marketwire, Reuters, TechEye, BlackBerry, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Motley Fool, TheStreet.com, PCWorld, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Tech Trader Daily, and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @jonerlichman
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