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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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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Court orders Apple to disable 10-tries-and-wipe feature on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone to allow government to crack password through brute force — U.S. wants Apple to help unlock iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter — A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the government unlock …
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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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| 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 …
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| Eric Schmidt / Jigsaw: |
Alphabet's Google Ideas think tank becomes Jigsaw, an incubator that uses technology to solve world issues like terrorism; Jared Cohen named president — Google Ideas becomes Jigsaw — Today we're announcing the expansion of Google Ideas, Google's think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw.
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| Bryan Clark / The Next Web: |
Kanye West's new album downloaded 500K times on pirate sites, calls into question value of Tidal-only release — Kanye West's ‘Life of Pablo’ already pirated 500,000 times — Kanye West's new album ‘The Life of Pablo’ may have been released as exclusive to Jay-Z's streaming music service Tidal, but it didn't stay that way for long.| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation — As consumers and businesses begin to focus on what form the next generation of computing may take beyond our current era of the smartphone, startups developing at the cutting edge of these concepts … | 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 … | Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Apple to invest $25M into 250K square foot development center in Hyderabad India — Apple confirms plans to set up technology development centre in Hyderabad … NEW DELHI: Apple will build its technology development centre outside the US in Hyderabad with an investment of $25 million …
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Leap Motion demos Orion, a motion tracking system and sensor for VR headsets — Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets — When Leap Motion was announced in 2012, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. A little black box that plugged … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms that it's beginning to roll out long-awaited two-factor authentication — Instagram Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Fight Hackers — Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it's time to add another lock to its doors.| Reuters: |
T-Mobile's profit nearly tripled in Q4, to $297M, as it added 2.1M new customers, 1.3M of them postpaid — T-Mobile profit nearly triples as it adds more customers — T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) nearly tripled its profit in the fourth quarter as it gained more than 2 million subscribers drawn …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vulnerability in GNU C library that has left apps and hardware open to attacks since 2008 is patched in new update — Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of apps and devices vulnerable — Since 2008, vulnerability has left apps and hardware open to remote hijacking.
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| Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Sprout Social raises $42M Series C from Goldman Sachs and New Enterprise Associates — Goldman Sachs Backs Social Media Management Software — Sprout Social, a six-year-old Chicago company specializing in social media management software, has more than doubled its venture backing …
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| 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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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources EarlGrey UI testing framework for iOS apps — Google just open-sourced a tool for testing iOS apps — Google announced today that it has open-sourced EarlGrey, a piece of software that developers can use to more easily build and run user interface tests on source code for iOS apps.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches TensorFlow Serving, an open source project for taking machine learning models into production — Google Makes It Easier To Take Machine Learning Models Into Production — Google launched TensorFlow Serving today, a new open source project that aims to help developers …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA report indicates Internet firms may only be turning over emails from foreign targets, not all data as earlier thought — N.S.A. Gets Less Web Data Than Believed, Report Suggests — WASHINGTON — A newly declassified report by the National Security Agency's inspector general suggests …
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| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Former lead architect of Windows 95 announces Swipe, an open-source document creation platform for mobile — Windows 95 architect launches open-source, media-rich document creation platform for mobile devices … PowerPoint is fine for your business presentation, but getting your message across …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yello Mobile Raises $30M More At A $4B Valuation From Japan's SBI Holdings — Yello Mobile — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by raising nearly $150 million and acquiring over 80 other app startups — has picked another $30 million in funding.| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Khronos Group releases version 1.0 of Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL — Vulkan now official, with 1.0 API release and Nvidia, AMD drivers [Updated] — After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Rackspace reports $32M profit on $523M revenue, up 11% YoY, weak outlook despite company's plan to offer managed services for AWS and Azure — Rackspace: Solid Q4, weak outlook and hopes to ride cloud computing support wave — Rackspace's quarter and outlook were a mixed bag …
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft plans to have a certified blockchain marketplace by this spring — Why Microsoft Wants ‘Every Blockchain’ on its Azure Platform — While Microsoft tested the waters with bitcoin at the tail end of 2014, the tech giant appears poised to be a far bigger player in the burgeoning market …
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Google responds to Sen. Franken, says it collects personal information of students using education apps but doesn't use it to target ads — Google Acknowledges It Collects Student Information, but Doesn't Target Ads — Google acknowledges it collects information about students …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Shopify's new iOS keyboard, Shopkey, populates with product catalogs, so retailers can easily share product pictures and purchase links — Shopify Smooths Way For Retailers Selling On Social With New Keyboard — Social media has made us weirdly comfortable addressing corporations like people … Sponsor Posts
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