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Source: Apple is gathering advice from carmakers and automotive suppliers about parts and production methods as it learns to build a self-driving electric car — Apple learning to make self-driving car: source — (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is learning …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team — WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it
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Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mercury News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, GeekWire, Ars Technica, Bloomberg Business, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Gigaom, MacRumors, Seeking Alpha and AppleInsider
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
| Kevin Roose / Fusion: |
Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day — Snapchat Discover could be the biggest thing in news since Twitter — A few weeks ago, Snapchat updated its app. The new version had a little purple dot in the upper-right corner of the app's Stories screen.| Business Insider: |
Google's co-founders are about to sell $4.4 billion worth of shares — Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to sell about $4.4 billion worth of company shares, according to a new filing with the SEC (which we first spotted thanks to Footnoted).
Tweets: @footnoted
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Kara Swisher Interviews President Barack Obama on Cyber Security, Privacy and His Relationship With Silicon Valley — President Barack Obama took the hot seat with Re/code's Kara Swisher Friday as the two talked about a range of tech-focused topics, including cyber warfare …
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Re/code, Bloomberg Business, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
Tweets: @lizgannes, @sacca, @trevortimm, @stevesi, @delrey and @jonfortt
| Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
South Carolina prisons have imposed heavy penalties on over 400 prisoners for using social media, mostly Facebook — Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook — In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
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SiliconANGLE, RT, PandoDaily, Techdirt, Boing Boing and Slashdot
| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Wink's promise of a simple, affordable smart home proves false; not one product worked as advertised out of the box — Why Is My Smart Home So F**king Dumb? — A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment.| Casey Johnston / Motherboard: |
How Pavel Durov lost control of Russia's largest social network VKontakte to the Kremlin — Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network — Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent … | Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal: |
Credit card companies boosting security; Visa expanding tokenization to devices beyond Apple; Mastercard to spend $20M on biometrics, fingerprint matching — Visa, MasterCard to Roll Out New Cybersecurity Features — Credit-Card Companies Beefing Up Security Amid Growing Concerns About Data Breaches
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Business Wire, NASDAQ.com, Planet Biometrics.com, ZDNet, CBS News, BiometricUpdate, RTTNews, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, PYMNTS.com, Payments News, PE Hub Blog and Fortune. Tweets: @aaronlucchetti
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google exploring broad zero-rating platform in emerging markets to spur mobile app use — Google's Next Bid to Lower Mobile Data Costs: Zero Rating — Global Web companies like Google and Facebook know that most of their future growth will need to come from emerging markets.| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Flickr beta-testing Camera Roll, a sleeker interface for browsing, editing, and organizing photos — Flickr Rolling Out Camera Roll: A New Way to Browse, Edit, and Organize Your Shots — Flickr is rolling out a new feature called Camera Roll that's designed to make it even easier for users to browse … Sponsor Posts
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