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February 24, 2016, 3:40 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook rolls out Reactions to all, adding Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry buttons to Like; each button has same impact on News Feed ranking for now — Facebook Enhances Everyone's Like With Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry Buttons — Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions.

More: Facebook, Facebook, The Verge, GeekWire, Guardian, SiliconBeat, Slate, Android Police, USA Today, BuzzFeed, Computerworld, Vox, Adweek, Quartz, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, Guardian, Associated Press, The Daily Dot, Social, Redmond Pie, ValueWalk, Re/code, SlashGear, Newser, Phandroid, AndroidGuys, Macworld, ZDNet, CNET, SocialTimes, The Huffington Post, Droid Life, tech.co, WebProNews, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, the Econsultancy blog, Neowin, Tech Times, BetaNews, CrackBerry.com, Refinery29, iDownloadBlog.com, Washington Post, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, internetretailer.com, Pocketnow, ABC News, 9to5Google, Reuters, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @stevenlevy, @robbievmyers, @gt, @profjeffjarvis and @nathanjurgenson

Liz Stinson / Wired:

Behind Facebook's decision to narrow Reactions down to a set of six, the design of the icons, and their layout in posts — Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here — Your News Feed is about to get a lot more expressive. After months of user testing in a handful of countries …

More: Computerworld, ResearchBuzz, WebProNews, CNET and The Loop

Tweets: @mattnavarra and @b_fung

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall's OS X 10.12 launch — Apple currently plans to use its next major release of the Mac operating system, known as OS X 10.12, this fall to continue to expand Siri across its product lines. Last year, Apple implemented Siri …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft is buying mobile tool vendor Xamarin — In a move many have been anticipating, Microsoft is buying mobile tool maker Xamarin for an undisclosed amount. — In a move that was expected and rumored for a long time, Microsoft is buying tool maker Xamarin.

More: ScottGu's Blog, The Official Microsoft Blog, VentureBeat, Xamarin Blog, Fortune, The Next Web, Windows Central, GeekWire, Business Insider, Petri, Forrester Blogs and WinBeta

Tweets: @withinrafael, @maryjofoley and @bradwilson

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google Fiber coming to San Francisco for some apartments, condos, and public housing units, will use existing fiber networks — Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco — Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends …

More: Google Fiber Blog, Re/code, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Next Web, DSLreports, Engadget, Mercury News, VentureBeat, Fortune, USA Today, Slate, Ars Technica, Wired, Consumerist and ValueWalk

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple says functionality removed from the Apple Pencil in iOS 9.3 will return in next beta — Apple Pencil Navigation Functionality to Return in Next iOS 9.3 Beta — The early iOS 9.3 betas removed key functionality from the Apple Pencil, an unpopular move that eliminated its ability to be used for navigation.

More: The Verge, Digital Trends, iMore, iMore, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Pocketnow, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, Daring Fireball and iLounge

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

WordPress.com sites now automatically support Google's AMP to speed up mobile page loading; self-hosted WordPress sites can enable AMP with a plugin — WordPress Sites Now Support Google's AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster — Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone.

More: Official Google Blog, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Wired, Search Engine Journal, Consumerist, WebProNews, ResearchBuzz, MediaShift, Adotas, Android Central and 9to5Google. See also Mediagazer

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Starts Highlighting AMP Pages In Its Mobile Search Results — Smartphones and networks are constantly getting faster, but somehow the mobile web now feels slower than it ever did. That's largely thanks to all the ads and trackers that most sites now use (and maybe the abundance of large GIFs, too).

More: Nieman Lab, Adweek, Backchannel, Macworld, The Verge, WordPress.com News, CNET, Engadget, Re/code, New York Times, Search Engine Land, GitHub, Silicon Valley Business … and Google Europe Blog. Tweets: @mdudas. See also Mediagazer

Lucas Mearian / CSO:

Unsecured Nissan APIs allow anyone with VIN number to access battery management, climate control, more; Nissan says it's aware of problem, doesn't affect safety — Hackers can access the Nissan Leaf via insecure APIs — A hacker could control the charging functions related to the electric vehicle's lithium-ion battery

More: Troy Hunt's Blog, BBC, Guardian, Graham Cluley and Jalopnik. Tweets: @amdev

Kate Kochetkova / Kaspersky Lab:

What is known about the Lazarus Group: Sony hack, military espionage, attacks on Korean banks and other crimes — The morning of November 24, 2014 is engrained into the collective memories of Sony Pictures Entertainment employees. On that day, an unknown cybergang hacked the company's server …

More: Motherboard, Securelist, Wired, PCWorld, eWeek, The Register and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @kimzetter

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Google Docs now lets you edit and format text using your voice — Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago. — “We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter …

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, ZDNet and Android Police

Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com:

Microsoft launches Hub Keyboard for Android with app content sharing, built-in translation, multi-item clipboard, and contacts integration — Microsoft Hub Keyboard Brings App Content Sharing to Android — Microsoft Garage this week released a new keyboard replacement app for Android called Hub Keyboard.

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

If Apple is forced to break its iPhone security, it would cast doubt over the ability to avoid surveillance in a future with more and more connected devices — The Apple Case Will Grope Its Way Into Your Future — To understand what's at stake in the battle between Apple and the F.B …

More: Ars Technica, TIME, Fortune and Federal Computer Week

Tweets: @cjchivers and @emilysteel

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business:

Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case

Erik Crouch / Tech in Asia:

Xiaomi launches Mi5 with 5.15" Full HD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and 16MP camera for $413, only available in China for now — 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.

More: Computerworld, BetaNews, The Verge, Xiaomi MIUI Official …, 9to5Google, The Next Web, BGR, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Ars Technica UK, FierceWireless, Re/code, The Register, Computerworld, The Verge, BetaNews and VentureBeat

Tweets: @jonrussell, @thenextweb and @thenextweb

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