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February 14, 2015, 2:35 PM
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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
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple hires head of Mercedes-Benz R&D, other auto experts for new secret research lab
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 …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Tim Cook at cybersecurity summit: “History has shown us that sacrificing a right to privacy can have dire consequences”
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Behind the Stanford investigation preceding the sexual harrassment and rape lawsuit against Formation 8 and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale  —  The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor  —  Credit: From left: Elinor Carucci for The New York Times.  Ian Allen for The New York Times.
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 …
More: The Verge, SlashGear and The Next Web.  Tweets: @r
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 …
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.
More: Gigaom and Slashdot.  Tweets: @drbarnard

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Analysis shows declining YouTube and X viewerships for several high-profile right-wing influencers, pointing to a shrinking audience for pro-Trump content

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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

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple's App Store now allowing marijuana-related apps that enforce geolocation checks and rejecting apps depicting gun violence in screenshots
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