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March 1, 2016, 12:35 AM

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The Intercept:

Brooklyn federal judge rules in drug case that government can't use All Writs Act to force Apple to unlock iPhones — Apple Wins Major Court Victory Against FBI in a Case Similar to San Bernardino — Apple scored a major legal victory in its ongoing battle against the FBI on Monday …

Alex Heath / Business Insider:

Apple's general counsel Bruce Sewell submits opening statement for his testimony before Congress tomorrow, summarizing Apple's position in FBI case — Here's what Apple's top lawyer will tell Congress tomorrow — The battle between Apple and the FBI over hacking the iPhone that belonged …

More: BetaNews, The Verge, Motherboard, MacNN, 9to5Mac, BGR, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, Cult of Mac, iLounge, Washington Post, Engadget, CSO, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @erratarob, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @benbajarin

Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed:

One San Bernardino survivor's husband supports Apple in amicus curiae, doubts shooter's iPhone contains valuable information

More: 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, CBS San Francisco, CBS San Francisco and iLounge

Justin Pritchard / Associated Press:

Google's self-driving car may have caused its first accident, hitting public bus in California at 2mph, according to company's report to DMV — Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a city street …

More: Reuters, BuzzFeed, Engadget, Gizmodo, BBC, The Verge, Re/code, Wired, Associated Press, Fusion, TechSpot, Quartz, SlashGear, ABC News, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, Electrek, Neowin, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, ZDNet, New York Magazine, Independent.ie, Inquirer and Android Central

Tweets: @peterpham, @usatoday, @dannysullivan, @stevesi, @zpower, @mhbergen and @samsabri

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Largely undetected Mac malware suggests disgraced HackingTeam has returned — Researchers have uncovered what appears to be newly developed Mac malware from HackingTeam, a discovery that's prompting speculation that the disgraced malware-as-a-service provider has reemerged since last July's hack …

More: Objective-See's Blog, Reverse Engineering Mac OS X, PCWorld, MacNN, Motherboard and Engadget. Tweets: @patrickwardle

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

New 9.7-inch iPad Pro may best 12.9-inch model with 12MP camera, 4K video — While Apple's upcoming 9.7-inch iPad Pro will mostly match the 12.9-inch version in terms of functionality, there likely will be one key difference. Internal prototypes of the smaller model include …

More: iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Geek.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, FierceMobileIT News, Investor's Business Daily and Business Insider. Tweets: @markgurman

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

$3,000 HoloLens dev kit available for pre-order now, shipping March 30 — Futuristic hardware finally gets into developers' hands. — If you want to get your hands on Microsoft's holographic headset, the company is now taking pre-orders for the HoloLens Development Edition.

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

GoPro acquires startups Stupeflix and Vemory, developers of mobile video editing apps Replay and Splice, for $105M — GoPro Shells Out $105 Million For Two Video Editing Startups To Address Its Biggest Problem — The pounding waves of the public market have batters and bruised GoPro.

More: Investor Relations, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Next Web, Bloomberg Business, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Re/code and silicontap.com

Tweets: @yenaphe, @alexjamesfitz and @jean_patry

Lauren Goode / The Verge:

Brita Infinity $45 Wi-Fi water pitcher automatically orders filter replacements via Amazon's Dash Replenishment Service — Amazon and Brita team up for Wi-Fi water pitchers — Back when Amazon first revealed plans for its Dash Replenishment Service, its automatic-reordering system …

More: Gizmodo, Re/code, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Engadget, Business Wire, Digital Trends, TIME, BGR, PC Magazine, Consumerist, Fortune, PCWorld, Gizmodo UK, TIME and BetaNews

Tweets: @noobde and @delrey

Harj Taggar / Triplebyte:

Y Combinator to begin recommending that their startups adopt 10-year stock option exercise windows — Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity — tl;dr Short stock option exercise windows suck. They force startup employees to make hard decisions, and often rob them of fairly earned compensation.

More: Harjeet and TechCrunch. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @patio11, @dylanpyle, @kneath, @jorilallo and @martindale

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Snapchat brings Live Stories to the web for the first time during Oscars — Snapchat brings Live Stories to the web for the first time — Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web.

More: snapchat.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Tubefilter, Mashable, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Drum, STASHED, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Tech Times and AndroidHeadlines.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Square Cash app gets Cash Drawer feature to store your balance to better compete with PayPal and Venmo — Square Cash's Fast Payments App Can Now Hold A Balance — Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today …

More: Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, ZDNet, Finextra Research news, 9to5Mac, WebProNews and Android Police

Daniel Tyson / Ausdroid:

Google adds Virtual Reality section to Google Store; starts selling Cardboard compatible viewers in the US — Google has been moving into the Virtual Reality space for a few years now, ever since Cardboard was announced as a throwaway at the end of Google I/O back in 2014.

More: Android Police, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, Fone Arena, Phandroid and Android Central

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