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March 31, 2015, 8:25 AM

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Régis Décamps / Gmail Blog:

Gmail for Android updated with unified inbox view, conversation view for non-Gmail accounts, smarter search — All your mail, together in one place — These days, many of us have more than one email address. If you're a student, you may have one account for school, one for a campus group you lead, and one for your blog.

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Jay-Z relaunches Tidal with $9.99/month standard and $19.99/month high-quality tiers, with top artists as co-owners — Jay Z relaunches Tidal with music's biggest artists as his co-owners — At a press conference in New York City this afternoon, Jay Z and a huge group of musical stars took …

Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:

Tidal is dead on arrival because listeners are cheap, it lacks a critical mass of both users and musicians, and the market is crowded — Tidal — Now let me get this straight...piracy can be eradicated if artists just band together in the name of money? That's what this is all about, cash.

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Josh Hudgins / Google Drive Blog:

Google makes photos and videos from Google+ Photos available in Drive — Your photos and files, together in Drive — We take all kinds of photos, from pics of friends and family to snapshots of a scenic view. We also use photos for more practical purposes, like planning a wedding …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft rolls out first Windows 10 preview with ‘Spartan’ browser — Summary:Microsoft has released to testers a new Windows 10 Desktop preview build, the first to include the coming new ‘Project Spartan’ browser. — Microsoft is making available to its Windows Insiders testers …

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New York Times:

Two former federal agents charged for stealing bitcoin during Silk Road investigation — 2 Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges — Two former federal agents are expected to be arrested on Monday on charges of stealing money while working undercover on an investigation into Silk Road …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Former DEA agent who worked on Silk Road case charged with acting as paid mole for Ross Ulbricht; second agent charged with pocketing $800K in bitcoin

More: Forbes and Fusion. Tweets: @a_greenberg, @msquinn, @a_greenberg and @mattblaze

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Hollywood turns to new encryption tools, monitoring systems, and secure collaboration software after Sony hack — Secrecy on the Set: Hollywood Embraces Digital Security — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Lulu Zezza has played one of the toughest roles in Hollywood.

More: Politico

Mark Wilson / Co.Design:

Facebook moves into its new 430,000-square-foot Menlo Park building designed by Frank Gehry — A First Look At Facebook's New Mothership, Designed By Frank Gehry — 2,800 people. One room. And a giant green roof. — This is the story of “MPK 20”—Facebook's new flagship building in its Menlo Park campus.

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

Belgian data regulator finds Facebook tracks logged out, explicitly opted out, and unregistered users, thus breaching EU privacy law — Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’ — Exclusive: Social network even sets a new cookie to track untracked EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking, report says

More: Telegraph and The Next Web

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

DHS subpoenas Reddit for personal data on users involved with defunct dark-web marketplace Evolution — Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum — Over the last year, Reddit's “dark net markets” discussion forum has grown into one of the central fixtures of the online drug scene.

More: SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo and The Verge

John Cook / GeekWire:

IBM plans $5B Internet of Things push, lures The Weather Channel away from AWS … IBM is betting big on the Internet of Things — the idea that connected devices (everything from refrigerators to toasters to automobiles) will be able to provide real-time data that makes our lives easier.

More: ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, New York Times, Business Insider, A Smarter Planet Blog, CloudWedge, TechCrunch, ABC News, USA Today, Fortune and eWeek

Economist:

Messaging services like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and WeChat could expand into platforms superseding even Android and iOS — The message is the medium — Messaging services are rapidly growing beyond online chat — “I PROPOSE, if and when found, to take him by his beastly neck …

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @sgendzel and @csoghoian

Martyn Williams / PC World:

US International Trade Commission to investigate Apple after it allegedly infringed Ericsson's LTE wireless technology patents — US trade body to investigate Apple after Ericsson complaints — The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate Apple after two complaints …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Business Insider, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore and Patently Apple

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