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Sources: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon circulating draft open letter to Trump on recent immigration order ahead of planned release this week — It's the first joint effort from big U.S. businesses to try to support immigration. — Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft …
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft asks Trump administration for a formal process to grant exceptions to visa-holding workers and students affected by immigration order — Proposal calls for case-by-case exception process for law-abiding visa holders with pressing needs — In last Friday's executive order …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hackers release iOS cracking tools used by Cellebrite, the Israeli firm known for breaking into phones; expert says the tools are similar to jailbreaking tools — The hacker says this demonstrates that when organizations make hacking tools, those techniques will eventually find their way to the public.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS with support for apps and add-ons, starting with Giphy, Evernote, Trello, more — Microsoft is bringing apps and add-ins to its Outlook for iOS email application today. The software giant has partnered with Evernote, Giphy, Nimble, Trello …
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Sources: Spotify weighs plan to delay its IPO until 2018 in order to improve margins, renegotiate licensing deals, more — Feb 2, 2017, 10:40 amFeb 2, 2017, 11:19 am — Spotify — the music streaming company with over 100 million users (40 million of them paying) … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple began developing a new low-power ARM-based chip last year for Macs, which will work alongside Intel's chipset and handle “Power Nap” duties, more — A part built with ARM Holdings is used in keyboard's Touch Bar — New design could help improve battery life in MacBook laptops
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google to shut down Hands Free payment service on February 8, shifting efforts toward Android Pay, after piloting it since March 2016 — Google announced to users today that it is shutting down its Hands Free payment service on February 8th. The feature was quietly announced at Google I/O … | Polygon: |
ZeniMax awarded $500M damages after jury finds Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey broke NDA; Oculus to pay $300M, co-founder Iribe to pay $150M, Luckey to pay $50M — A Dallas, Texas jury today awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey failed …
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| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to let users search for photos using keywords to describe them, powered by its Lumos AI, which has been used to help the visually impaired — Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla lays off about 50 from its connected devices team, bringing the project to an end — The nonprofit is cutting about 50 people after struggling to extend the influence of its Firefox web browser for PCs. — A last vestige of Mozilla's effort to expand its technological influence beyond … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: The first new smartwatch with Android Pay, the LG Watch Sport, will cost $349 — After revealing late last week that LG's Watch Style will come in at $249, today we can confirm via one of trusted sources that its bigger, LTE-enabled brother will cost $100 more.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sues Charter Communications, claiming Charter's Spectrum unit promised internet speeds it knew it couldn't deliver — Charter-owned cable provider defrauded and misled customers, AG's complaint says. — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today filed …
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Tesla has been testing four autonomous cars on California roads, totaling 550 miles between October and December, reporting 0.33 disengagements per mile — State DMV publishes ‘disengagement’ reports from 11 companies — Tesla had four autonomous vehicles that covered 550 miles
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