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Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, reddit, Twitter, Wikimedia, join Google, Facebook, and Yahoo in voicing opposition to current CISA proposal days before vote — Apple says it's against a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote — Apple said Tuesday that it opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that …
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| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion — Western Digital is facing challenges to its core hard-disk-drive businesses from flash and solid-state drives — Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about $19 billion in cash and stock, a deal that positions the company … | Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple tells federal judge it's impossible to access user data on locked iPhone running iOS 8 or higher — Apple Tells Judge It Can't Unlock New iPhones — Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access user data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer operating systems …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Apple Music Trials Wrap, Spotify Snags The #1 Top Grossing Spot In US App Store For First Time — Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday may have been touting the number of Apple Music music paying subscribers - 6.5 million, but at the same time rival Spotify was quietly hitting a milestone of its own.
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| Todd Sherman / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter Polls start rolling out to everyone, remain live for 24 hours, votes remain private — Introducing Twitter Polls — We're excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter. And, with just a couple of taps, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about.
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Misfit releases Shine 2 fitness and sleep monitor, with notifications and vibrations for “move” reminders for $100 — Misfit Debuts The Shine 2, A Bigger, More Powerful Version Of Its Flagship Activity & Sleep Tracker — Over two years ago, Misfit launched an activity monitor called … | Facebook: |
Facebook launches TechPrep, a computer science resource hub, for minorities and women — Announcing the Launch of TechPrep — Exposing learners, parents and guardians to computer science — By Maxine Williams, Global Director of Diversity — Diversity is central to Facebook's mission …
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Nexus 5X review: great value, quick and accurate fingerprint sensor, but mediocre battery, and no microSD card slot — Nexus 5X review: Google's triumphant return to smaller, cheaper phones — While the Nexus 6 received plenty of praise when it debuted last year, it also got its fair share of flack.
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Surface Book review: really does replace your laptop, great screen, keyboard, and trackpad, but can get very expensive — Surface Book review: The hybrid that really does replace your laptop — It ain't cheap, but it is pretty. — This is the machine that I've wanted Microsoft …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries — Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties … : Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision …
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| Jessy / AgileBits Blog: |
1Password switches its default encryption format from AgileKeychain to OPVault — When a Leak Isn't a Leak — Over the weekend Dale Myers wrote a blog post that examined our .agilekeychain format. The post featured a good discussion and analysis of our older data format …
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Spotify removes thousands of songs from Victory Records' catalog amid royalties disputes — Publishers Said to Be Missing As Much as 25 Percent of Streaming Royalties — By some industry estimates, as much as 25 percent of mechanical royalties due publishers and songwriters are going unpaid … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Giphy releases GIF Maker tool to create GIFs from video — Giphy launches a super simple GIF creator for the web — As a denizen of the internet, I frequently find myself wanting to turn YouTube videos into GIFs, but I've never been very good at doing it on my own.
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EMC And VMware Spin Out Virtustream As Jointly Owned Company — In a surprise move today at its earnings call, VMware announced that together with EMC, it was forming a jointly-owned company under the name of Virtustream, which is the company EMC bought last spring for $1.2 billion.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple TV Gains CBS All Access, NBC, and Made to Measure Channels — Just a week ahead of the launch of the fourth-generation Apple TV, Apple has added several new channels to the existing set-top box. As of today, NBC, CBS All Access, and Made to Measure (M2M) are available on the Apple TV.
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Microsoft outlines four-step proposal in wake of Safe Harbor decision, to balance privacy, a global Internet, and public safety, in a new legal framework — The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik's Cube — When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015 …
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