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Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent” — A Message to Our Customers — The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue …
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Daring Fireball, Engadget, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, Re/code, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Wall Street Journal, CBS San Francisco, Pocketnow and The Verge
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| Dan Guido / Trail of Bits Blog: |
iPhone 5C lacks Secure Enclave, makes it technically feasible for Apple to comply with court order over San Bernadino shooter — Apple can comply with the FBI court order — Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI's request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen's iPhone 5C.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor — Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn't asking …
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Tweets: @csoghoian, @attackerman and @kevinbankston
| Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: |
A look at early reactions from lawmakers and candidates Trump and Kasich to Apple's encryption standoff with the FBI — Should Apple unlock a phone tied to the San Bernardino attack? Lawmakers say yes and no — Add this to the list of controversies facing Capitol Hill.
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BuzzFeed, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Congressman Ted Lieu, Agence France-Presse and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @passantino and @mat
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter rolling out a new GIF button for iOS, Android, and Twitter.com over coming weeks, in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter rolls out native GIF support in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter has added native support for GIFs, thanks to its partnership with Giphy and Riffsy.
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Tweets: @twitterau, @caseynewton and @howardlindzon
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages — Twitter may be in the middle of an existential crisis of sorts over where to take its slow-growing social network, but the company keeps plugging away at basic features to bring the service up to speed with competitors like Facebook Messenger.
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Android Police, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and iMore
Tweets: @support, @davezatz and @robinwauters
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company — If It's Wednesday, It's Layoffs Day at Yahoo: Today, Digital Magazines Get Hit — According to sources close to the situation …
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Tweets: @djbentley and @jyarow
See also Mediagazer| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12 — Facebook Will Make Instant Articles Available to All Publishers — As of April 12, almost a year after launch, any publisher can host content directly on the social media site
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @poynter
See also Mediagazer| Diego Macias / Android Headlines: |
Google Translate adds 13 new languages bringing total to 103, now serves 99% of online population — Google Translate Update Adds New Language Support — Google Translate is a very powerful and useful tool which has been getting better over time. The service can be used to translate text … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues — Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.
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| Office Blogs: |
Outlook.com exits preview, gets major update including @mentions in emails, side-by-side doc and email editing, Giphy integrations — Outlook.com—out of preview and better than ever — The Outlook team is on a mission to bring you the best email and calendar experience—at work, at home—across all your favorite devices.
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CIO.com, Engadget, eWeek, FierceCIO News, TechCrunch, WinBeta, Neowin, The Next Web, Windows Central, Thurrott.com and Lifehacker. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
U.S. Department of Defense to upgrade 4 million devices to Windows 10 by February 2017 — The U.S. Department of Defense is committing to upgrade roughly four million devices and systems running legacy versions of Windows to Windows 10 by February 2017. — The U.S. Department … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Nvidia reports quarterly revenue up 12% to $1.40B on higher chip demand, GAAP net income up 7% YoY to $207M, rising interest in deep learning tech; stock up 6%+ — Nvidia touts deep learning success in Q4 earnings win — The graphics chipmaker revenue of $1.4 billion, up 12 percent year-over-year.
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AnandTech, NVIDIA Newsroom, The Tech Report and Reuters
| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango — Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster From Warner Bros Entertainment — BREAKING: Fandango is set to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft now selling licenses to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure, also announces Azure support for Walmart's OneOps app lifecycle management platform — Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure — Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses.
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Microsoft Azure, InfoWorld, WinBeta, The New Stack, CIO.com and New York News. Tweets: @marypcbuk
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google expands its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries starting in San Francisco and Los Angeles, $35 minimum order — Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries, the latest example …
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ZDNet, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Fortune, Phandroid, Droid Life, internetretailer.com, SiliconBeat and CNET
| Astro Teller / Backchannel: |
Plenty of Google X moonshot ideas are ditched, with 100 investigations killed last year, including vertical farming and variable buoyancy cargo ship projects — The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects — At X, I see up close every day how messy innovation is| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Gmailify to let users of non-Gmail accounts take of advantage of Gmail's best features like spam detection, Google Now integrations, more — Google Launches “Gmailify” - A Way To Use Gmail's Best Features With Non-Gmail Accounts — Since early 2015, Google's Gmail Android app …
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Gmail Blog, Digital Trends, ZDNet, ITworld.com, VentureBeat, BetaNews and Marketing Land. Tweets: @theromit
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches templates for new issues and pull requests — GitHub today announced the availability of templates that repository maintainers can add to forms for new issues and pull requests. The move might sound like a small thing, but it could result in more civil discussion among GitHub users.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Custom Machine Types Come Out Of Beta, Now Support Red Hat And Windows — Custom Machine Types on Google's Cloud Platform allow you to choose exactly how many CPU cores and how much memory you want in a virtual machine to run your applications. Google first introduced this feature …
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Google Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet, theWHIR.com and Business Insider
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Confidential internal data: Yahoo.com's daily active users declined 16.5% in 2015, Yahoo Mail down 11.5%, and Yahoo Search down 8.8% — The Death March of Yahoo's Core Products — The number of people visiting Yahoo's three most important products—Yahoo Mail, the Yahoo.com home page and Yahoo Search …
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