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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

HTC One M9 review: great design, performance, and battery life, but camera disappoints — HTC One M9 review — Haven't we seen this before? — Déjà vu (noun): a feeling that one has seen or heard something before — I've spent the better part of the last two weeks with HTC's new One M9.

More: ZDNet, Android Central, TechnoBuffalo, AnandTech, Engadget, WMPoweruser, BGR, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear, AnandTech, The Next Web, Pocketnow, iMore, 9to5Google and Android Beat

Tweets: @dcseifert and @reckless

Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:

Former Twitter employee files class action lawsuit for gender discrimination, says company's hiring and promotion processes favor men — Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination — A former software engineer says the company's promotion process favors men

More: Mashable, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, PandoDaily, Courthouse News Service, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNET, The Technology Chronicles, SlashGear, TIME and Associated Press. Tweets: @brycecovert

TechCrunch:

Kleiner defense rests its case, and judge rules Ellen Pao may indeed seek punitive damages — Pao Vs. Kleiner Defense Rests Its Case, Showcasing A Different Side Of The Story — Yesterday afternoon, the legal team representing venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rested …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, The Verge, Re/code, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Business Insider and bizjournals

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Critics say CISA won't boost security, will allow private companies to share more user data with government — CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying — When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1 …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Techdirt, SocialTimes, RT, The Hill, The Hill, Guardian, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SC Magazine and National Journal

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Advice for raising seed in a feeding frenzy: anticipate your A round, raise what you need, and hire VCs like employees — An Open Letter to YC Founders on Demo Day Eve — It's YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It's frankly kinda tired.

More: Alex Iskold. Tweets: @mgsiegler, @mdudas, @abrams, @trengriffin, @cdixon, @cynthiaschames, @semil, @jess, @levie, @percival, @jason, @stevesi and @davemcclure

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Livestreaming service YouNow has 100M+ monthly visitors, engaged community, a business model, and is paying its broadcasters via partnership program — The live-streaming app where amateurs get paid to chat, eat, and sleep on camera — Tayser Abuhamdeh doesn't have what most people would call an exciting job.

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @rrhoover, @benpopper and @leland

David Ruddock / Android Police:

New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices — If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

How Life360 prevailed in court after its CEO sent “Dear Piece of S**t” letter to AGIS, a company suing them for patent infringement — How Life360 won its patent war — Jury saw CEO's “Dear piece of s**t” letter to his “patent troll”—and understood.

More: Techdirt

Financial Times:

Universal pushes Spotify to add limits to its free tier during licensing negotiations — Universal takes on Spotify freemium model — The “freemium” model used by Spotify to amass 60m users and 15m paying subscribers around the world is facing a new challenge just months …

More: Rolling Stone, The Verge, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Thai Tech, IBNLive, Digital Trends and Telegraph. Tweets: @mgsiegler

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Researchers uncover method to hack BIOS firmware, subvert secure operating systems like Tails — Hacking BIOS Chips Isn't Just the NSA's Domain Anymore — The ability to hack the BIOS chip at the heart of every computer is no longer reserved for the NSA and other three-letter agencies.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Broadwell 13" Macbook Pro and Air reviewed: good specs for price and size, marginal difference in speed, display on Air is inferior to similarly priced laptops — 13-inch Broadwell MacBook showdown: Should you go Pro or get an Air? — Review: The 2015 Broadwell refreshes are similar, but not identical.

More: Ars Technica, Gizmag Emerging …, AppleInsider and TechCrunch

Ellen Huet / Forbes:

Newly merged Kuaidi-Didi reportedly controls 99% of Chinese taxi-hailing market, claims 6M rides per day, putting Uber's future in China at risk — In Wake Of Kuaidi-Didi Merger, Uber Faces An Even Tougher Battle In China — During the Lunar New Year in China, taxi-hailing app Kuaidi showered its riders with red envelopes.

Tweets: @stefan_heck, @chen_liyan and @ellenhuet

The Economic Times:

Ola, Indian rival of Uber, launches food delivery service, is raising $500M round at an estimated $2B valuation

More: The Tech Portal, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MediaNama, Trak.in and VatorNews

Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review:

Despite recent advances by HoloLens and Magic Leap, miniaturization of components is essential for commercializing augmented reality tech — Reality Check: Comparing HoloLens and Magic Leap — I've seen two competing visions for a future in which virtual objects are merged seamlessly with the real world.

More: Fast Company. Tweets: @genebecker

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