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Spotify to transition its service from its own servers to Google Cloud Platform over the next 18 months — Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google's Cloud—Lucky for Google — Spotify is moving itself onto the Googlenet. — A decade ago, the Swedish startup built its seminal streaming music service atop …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case — Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech? — IPhone maker is seeking to use First Amendment as a defense — Case may set precedent for considering software as expression
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Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Reuters, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, Hit & Run and Mashable. Thanks:@pitts_man
| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
Pro-encryption lawmakers Ron Wyden, Zoe Lofgren on House support for backdoor bans, McCaul-Warner commission plans, Apple vs FBI as a chance to educate Congress — Pro-encryption lawmakers see ‘Apple vs. FBI’ fight as a chance to educate Congress — Two of Congress's staunchest supporters …
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New York Times, Gizmodo, Just Security, Stratechery, Washington Post, TechCrunch, US News, Federal Computer Week, Fortune, The Intercept, Redmond Pie, eWeek, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal and CNET. Thanks:@ericgeller
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
ASUS settlement with FTC over router flaws from 2014 requires 20 years of security audits — Asus lawsuit puts entire industry on notice over shoddy router security — FTC takes aim at insecurity that's rampant in the “Internet-of-things” industry. — In February 2014 …
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Inquirer, Federal Trade Commission, Techdirt, DSLreports, Engadget, The Hill, The Overspill, Digital Trends, CSO, Fortune and The Register
| Erik Crouch / Tech in Asia: |
Xiaomi launches Mi5 with 5.15" Full HD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and 16MP camera for $413 — Xiaomi's Mi5 flagship looks like one of the best phones on the market — Xiaomi Mi5. Image by Xiaomi. — Xiaomi today announced the launch of the Mi5, the company's latest flagship smartphone.
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| Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
Twitter releases Fabric mobile app for iOS and Android with real-time alerts and analytics — Meet Fabric, Twitter's new mobile app built specifically for developers — Twitter Fabric is a mainstay for developers who want to build better apps, but has been limited to a Web-based interface.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud Pulse, A Dedicated App For Music Creators, Arrives On iOS — SoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service's dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market where apps tend to release on iOS first, Pulse first debuted on Android back in November.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free — Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too — People love Pocket. Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.
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Pocket Blog, Digital Trends, Android Police, Lifehacker, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Lightroom Android 2.0 launches, becoming the first mobile app to support RAW photo capturing using DNG format on devices with the capability — Lightroom on Android 2.0 is the World's First End-to-End Mobile RAW Photo App — Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga plans to sell and lease back its San Francisco headquarters, originally acquired for $228M — Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters up for sale — Zynga has put its San Francisco headquarters up for sale, confirming a report today from the San Francisco blog SFist.
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The Registry, SFist, San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Bay Area
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Valve releases SteamVR performance tool to test whether a PC is capable of smooth experience running high-end VR — Valve releases tool to test whether your PC is VR ready — See if your system is up for the upcoming HTC Vive. — With HTC beginning to take pre-orders …
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Steam, Silicon Republic, Eurogamer.net, MSPoweruser, PCWorld, The Verge, GeekWire, SlashGear, Geek.com, Road to VR, Windows Central, Tech Times, The Next Web, Windows Central, TechSpot, Kotaku, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Blue's News, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, The Tech Report, gHacks Technology News, Engadget, Digital Trends, Polygon and Neowin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor — Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
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AdExchanger, Multichannel News, SiliconANGLE, MediaPost, Buffalo Business Journal, Yahoo! Finance and FierceCable. Tweets: @marshallk. Thanks:@ingridlunden. See also Mediagazer
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