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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 …
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| 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
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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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The Daily Dot, Engadget, The Next Web, Wired, The Verge, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Techdirt, Talking New Media, Ubergizmo, The Digital Reader, New York Magazine and Pocketnow
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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 …
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Amazon.com, Re/code, BetaNews, The Verge, The Daily Dot, Six Colors, 9to5Mac, Droid Life, Six Colors, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, CNET, The Register, Lifehacker, Computerworld, Wired, Android Authority, Engadget, Marketing Land, TIME, Ubergizmo, ReadWrite, Android Police, Investor's Business Daily, Tech Times, Android News, Rumours …, Gizmodo, BGR, Digital Trends, Consumerist, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Google, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, ZDNet, TIME, Droid Life, MacNN, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker, GeekWire, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, USA Today, New York Times, ZDNet, Re/code and The Verge
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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.| 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.| 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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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 … | 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 …
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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 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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