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Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, dies at 74 from suspected heart attack — Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74 — Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson. — Raymond Tomlinson, the godfather of email, died Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack. He was 74.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
First known ransomware for Mac users arrives via infected Transmission BitTorrent client; Apple revokes developer certificate that enabled infected installs — Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend …
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Coinbase CEO: Core team is a systemic risk that can lead to Bitcoin collapse this year; switch to Bitcoin Classic now, then look for more scalable solutions — What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable — Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee …
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
As Bitcoin approaches its 1MB block size limit, transaction processing takes 10+ hours for some, while transaction fees rise several times — Bitcoin's Capacity Issues No ‘Nightmare’, But Higher Fees May Be New Reality — While bitcoin may not be facing a “nightmare” scenario as indicated by the media …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Uber, responding to customer service leak, says it received five rape claims and fewer than 170 sexual assault claims from December 2012 to August 2015 — Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints — BuzzFeed News obtains internal data on rapes and sexual assaults lodged … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Amazon reverses course, says it is bringing back support for device encryption to tablets running Fire OS via a software update due this spring — Amazon reverses course on encryption for its Fire tablets — It's been only one day since — in the midst of a debate over encrypted devices …
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| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Spotify's new Fresh Finds playlists leverage hundreds of music blogs and review sites it crawls and its own early adopter users — Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song — Spotify's personalized Discover Weekly playlist has won millions of fans … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid — It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center … | Bloomberg Business: |
China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts — China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime — Beijing wants to identify subversives before they strike. — Shai Oster — China's effort to flush out threats … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead — Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role …
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Tech Times, Mashable, Meerkat, Quartz, Android News, Rumours …, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, ResearchBuzz, Fone Arena, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Pocketnow, The Next Web, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget and Tech Insider
Tweets: @jeremysliew, @digiphile, @marissa and @pkafka
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Experts: FBI could crack terrorist's iPhone without Apple's help, but wants to set a legal precedent that would give them access to phone data with a warrant — Who Needs Apple When the FBI Could Hack Terrorist iPhone Itself — Experts say Feds could access data without going to court| Reuters: |
Sources: Commerce Department to place export restrictions on ZTE due to Iran sanctions violations, making it difficult for the firm to buy products from US — U.S. Commerce Department to place restrictions on China's ZTE — The U.S. Commerce Department is set to place export restrictions …
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Taipei Times, Chinatopix, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, Fortune and PhoneArena
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Samsung says it has no plans to buy Tidal — Samsung Says It Won't Buy Tidal (EXCLUSIVE) — Samsung has no plans to acquire Jay Z's Tidal music service, the company told Variety Friday. — “The rumor of Samsung acquiring Tidal is not true,” said Samsung spokesperson, breaking the company's silence on the matter.
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BetaNews, hypebot, TalkAndroid.com, SlashGear, FACT Magazine, The Wrap, AndroidHeadlines.com and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@jank0
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