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January 10, 2016, 1:00 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac — TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app. The photo below shows a Facebook employee using it.

More: Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Engadget and MacRumors. Tweets: @craigmod

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year — Android N, a big VR program, Google Glass, and lots more are in store for Alphabet. — It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project …

More: TechSpot, Ron Amadeo and The Mac Observer

Guardian:

Tech companies appear open to helping US government combat Islamic State after summit — Silicon Valley appears open to helping US spy agencies after terrorism summit — Obama administration acknowledges ‘complicated first amendment issues’ after top counter-terrorism officials traveled …

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Twitter removes conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge without stating a reason, inflaming politicized battle over online speech — Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars — Twitter's removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge …

More: UK Blog on The Huffington Post, TheBlaze, Twitchy, Mediaite and Business Insider

Tweets: @nero, @buzzfeedben, @nero, @arrington, @emilybell, @louisemensch, @christinetatum, @galenward, @nero and @kantrowitz

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Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency — Juniper Networks Inc said late on Friday it would stop using a piece of security code that analysts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order to eavesdrop through technology products.

More: Ars Technica, Juniper, Network World, The Next Web and Engadget

Tweets: @kimzetter and @nikitab

Andreas Gal:

With Google's move to integrate OpenJDK in Android, Oracle gains influence over a significant part of the Android software stack — Oracle sinks its claws into Android — This is my first blog post since leaving my role as Mozilla's CTO 6 months ago. As you may have read in the press …

More: Ars Technica and InfoQ. Tweets: @fraserspeirs, @stshank and @luisobo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Sources: iPhone 7 will do away with the standard 3.5mm headphone jack; premium Bluetooth Beats earbuds with charging carrying case could debut this fall — Apple developing revamped, cord-free Beats with charging case ahead of iPhone 7 — With its resources from the 2014 acquisition …

Financial Times:

Sources: Apple Music now has more than 10M subscribers — Apple's music streaming subscribers top 10m — Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months to hit a milestone which took its arch-rival Spotify six years to hit, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: AppleInsider and BGR. Tweets: @tim and @neilcybart

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Razer announces $200 Stargazer webcam with Intel RealSense3D technology, dynamic background removal, face and object 3D scanning — Razer Raises The Bar On VR Gaming With Its New $200 Stargazer Webcam — Last summer, gaming tech company Razer said that it was working with Intel on a webcam …

More: Ars Technica, AnandTech, CNET, PC Gamer, The Verge, Engadget, PCWorld, Fortune and Kotaku. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Razer launches $999 Blade Stealth Ultrabook and Core GPU enclosure dock that connects with Thunderbolt 3 and can drive both internal and external screens

More: TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, CNET, Laptop Mag, ExtremeTech, TechnoBuffalo, Kotaku, The Verge, AnandTech, Digital Trends and SlashGear

Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

As some in advertising industry criticize Pinterest's ad efforts, the company touts 5X YoY revenue growth in 2015, and plans to expand ad offerings in 2016 — Insiders say what's going on inside $11 billion Pinterest — and it's not all good — Pinterest is a strong contender to go public in 2016 …

More: bizjournals. Thanks:@stevekovach

Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge:

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says all NYC underground subway stations will have WiFi by the end of 2016, new mobile, contactless payment system by the end of 2018 — The entire New York City subway system will have Wi-Fi by the end of 2016 — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan …

More: Gizmodo, NY1 News, Politico, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Good E-Reader, New York Daily News, WNYW-TV, Associated Press, Tech Times, Engadget and New York Times. Tweets: @shaig

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Chinese Travel Booking Giant Ctrip Invests $180M In India's MakeMyTrip — Ctrip, the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip, a fellow booking service that covers flights, hotels and bus ticketing in the South Asian country.

More: e27, Business Standard, Seeking Alpha, The Hindu, Times of India and Tnooz. Tweets: @pankajontech

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Peach is a new social networking app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann that gives you quick access to things to share with “Magic Words” — Peach.cool is Friday's hottest social network — It's been a while since the last fameball social network took the Twittersphere by storm …

More: Re/code, Mashable, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Laughing Squid, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, VentureBeat, App Store, Gizmodo, Refinery29, iMore, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget

Tweets: @joshconstine, @ashleymayer, @profcarroll, @davewiner, @joshdickson40, @fmanjoo, @mattrosoff, @peachdotcool, @brett, @profjeffjarvis, @bplewis, @qhardy, @mikeelgan, @semil and @mat

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