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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
After Apple accuses Nokia of collusion with two patent trolls in an anti-trust lawsuit, Nokia sues Apple for infringement on 32 patents — Nokia today announced that it has filed several complaints against Apple in Germany and the United States, accusing the Cupertino company of infringing on Nokia patents.
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| Laharee Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Honda says it has entered formal talks with Alphabet's Waymo to add self-driving tech to its cars, will provide modified vehicles initially — Honda Motor Co Ltd's R&D unit said on Wednesday it has entered into formal talks with Alphabet Inc's Waymo to add self-driving technology to its vehicles.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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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Nintendo, TouchArcade, Japan Today, Pocket-lint, International Business Times, Engadget, Neowin, AppleInsider, Siliconera, Digital Trends, CNET, The Next Web, Polygon, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and The Verge. Tweets: @techjournalist
| 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 …
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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.| Spencer Woodman / The Verge: |
Data mining firm Palantir, co-founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, has provided help tracking immigrants for US customs and border authorities — 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, The Next Web, and New York Magazine
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| 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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| 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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Fitbit Blog, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, Engadget, TheStreet.com, CNBC, VentureBeat, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and Mobile Marketing Watch. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Six of ten executives in Twitter's “leadership team” have left this year, including the CTO, COO, VP of Product, VP of Engineering — There were a lot of them. — Who is left at Twitter? — The social communications company has always done a poor job of establishing continuity in its most senior ranks.
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CNBC, Breitbart, CNNMoney, TheStreet.com, Vanity Fair, New York Times, CNET, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @sfiegerman, @eddyelfenbein, @alex, @liberty8988, and @cnn
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
WhatsApp is being used by many immigrants and migrants to stay in touch with family members and friends back home, thanks to its security, simplicity, ubiquity — When Facebook bought WhatsApp for more than $19 billion in 2014, Jan Koum, a founder of the messaging company …
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Reuters. Tweets: @melissarfleming, @nytimes, @tanvi_madan, @skupor, @fmanjoo, and @puiwingtam. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| 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).| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Open Whisper Systems, the developers behind Signal, use “domain fronting” for its Android app to bypass censorship in Egypt and UAE, with iOS update coming soon — Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it.
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Open Whisper Systems, Engadget, and Motherboard
Tweets: @wired, @pwnallthethings, and @caseynewton
| 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, @peterkofod, @ggreenwald, @glinner, @sheldrake, @openrightsgroup, @paul__johnson, @old_pyjamas, @lordstras, and @paul__johnson
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook partners with 17 universities, including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, to speed up collaboration on new projects — Facebook's shadowy Building 8 research team needs help from academia to invent futuristic hardware. But today's pace of innovation doesn't allow …
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Globe and Mail, USA Today, and Fortune
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says government requests for account data rose 27% YoY globally; requests to remove posts that violate local law drop 83% — Facebook released its latest transparency report today, detailing government requests for user data for the first half of 2016.
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Facebook, International Business Times, SiliconANGLE, SocialTimes, Reuters, and Fortune
| 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
| 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 … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
How Nvidia used the growing need for powerful GPUs in AI, self-driving cars, and data centers to rapidly expand, after missing out on smartphone chips — CEO Huang's evangelism is paying off, boosting earnings — Data-center operators, automakers turning to PC-gaming part
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @labboudles, @ericnewcomer, and @mcbridesg
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