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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

A list of the companies, organizations, and individuals that have filed court documents supporting Apple against the FBI — These Are Apple's Allies Against the FBI (Updated) — Some 40 companies and organizations are expected to file briefs today in support of Apple in its fight …

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg Business:

Samsung says customer privacy is “extremely important” and backdoors would undermine trust, but stops short of openly supporting Apple, won't file amicus brief — Samsung Echoes Apple's Arguments on Importance of User Privacy — The world's largest smartphone vendor also opposes backdoors

New York Times:

Several tech execs were initially worried about supporting Apple in FBI case because of its potential to backfire, concerns over public perception — Apple Gets Tech Industry Backing in iPhone Dispute, Despite Misgivings — It is a remarkable moment for the technology industry …

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:

Amazon quietly removed support for device encryption in the latest version of Fire OS, which powers its tablets and phones — Amazon Quietly Removes Encryption Support from its Gadgets — While Apple is fighting the FBI in court over encryption, Amazon quietly disabled the option …

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Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Amazon unveils Tap, a $130 Alexa-enabled portable bluetooth speaker, and the $90 Echo Dot, which adds Alexa support to other speakers — Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family — Amazon's voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Amazon's Alexa will be able to control Nest and Honeywell thermostats this month

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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Palmer Luckey says even high-end Mac Pros aren't powerful enough for the final Oculus Rift hardware — Oculus Founder: Rift will come to Mac if Apple “ever releases a good computer” — Even high-end Mac Pro GPUs aren't powerful enough for VR, Luckey says.

More: Shacknews, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Tech Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Facebook adds Spotify integration to Messenger so users can share songs and playlists — Spotify becomes first music platform to integrate with Facebook Messenger — Music has arrived on Messenger. — Facebook announced today that its mobile messaging platform now integrates with Spotify.

More: TechCrunch, Messenger, Android Authority, VatorNews, The Verge, Variety, Gizmodo, Mashable, RAIN News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo and iMore. See also Mediagazer

Deborah M. Todd / Reuters:

Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman says company exploring sale of $1B-$3B of non-core assets like patents and property as alternative to spinning off core business — Yahoo exploring sale of $1 billion-$3 billion in ‘non-core assets’: CFO — Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) is exploring the sale of $1 billion …

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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:

Sources: Facebook to announce it will open Messenger to publishers for content distribution at its F8 conference in April — Facebook Plans To Open Messenger To Publishers At F8 In April — Facebook will officially let publishers distribute content through Messenger and will announce …

More: Ad Age and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Facebook tests letting publishers like The New York Times and Washington Post collect email newsletter signups in Instant Articles

More: Marketing Land

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:

Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage — Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday that it is now shipping the industry's highest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD), the 15.36TB PM1633a. — Samsung revealed it was working on the drive last August …

More: Samsung Newsroom, PCWorld, Engadget, Ars Technica, ValueWalk, The Register, Digital Trends, FierceCIO News, TechSpot, The Tech Report, Mashable, PCWorld, Gizmodo UK, Tech Times, ZDNet, Neowin, Ubergizmo and BetaNews

Tweets: @laurensvanduijn and @samsungsemius

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Instagram blocks deeplinks on profile pages that let users point to their Snapchat or Telegram accounts — Instagram starts blocking ‘add me’ deeplinking for Snapchat, Telegram — Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down 'add …

More: The Verge, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and SocialTimes

Tweets: @mathewi and @chanian

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

HTC Vive Pre: unfinished, but makes best case for VR both as entertainment device and computing interface — The HTC Vive Pre: an unfinished, incredibly fun virtual reality system — Of all the virtual reality headsets out there, the HTC Vive feels most like what science fiction visionaries promised us in the '80s and '90s.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @jake_k and @joshmarinacci

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