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Sources: Apple signs deal with Google, spending $400M-$600M on Google Cloud Platform, reducing its reliance on AWS — Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts Spending With AWS — Pages — Alphabet's Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign … | Luke Edwards / Pocket-lint: |
Samsung developing Entrim 4D VR headphones that aim to offer a feeling of motion by stimulating ear nerves, tech should also reduce headaches and nausea — Samsung Entrim 4D VR uses nerve signals to make you feel you're really flying — While 2016 is the year of virtual reality Samsung … | Marie / Uber Global: |
Uber launches Family Profiles in Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, letting users link up to 10 people, family and friends, to one account — Brought to You by Popular Demand: Family Profiles — As more people use Uber, feedback from riders and drivers has become an important source of inspiration for new app features.
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Apple will prevail over FBI because of CALEA, which trumps All Writs Act and limits government authority to dictate phone design and configuration — The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS — Barack Obama has a fine legal mind. But he may not have been using it when he talked about encryption last week.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
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Xbox One will be able to run Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps later this summer, as the Xbox Store and the Windows Store get merged into one — Microsoft is mashing Windows and the Xbox together to win over its most critical market — When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in the summer of 2015 …
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iOS malware, seen affecting customers in China, can infect non-jailbroken devices via App Store if the customer's PC is compromised — AceDeceiver: First iOS Trojan Exploiting Apple DRM Design Flaws to Infect Any iOS Device — We've discovered a new family of iOS malware … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Rift to have 30 titles at its March 28 launch priced between $10 and $60; Lucky's Tale bundled with the headset — The 29 Oculus Rift games you'll be able to buy at launch — Two weeks before Oculus launches its Rift virtual reality headset, we're learning what games people …
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LastPass announces its own two-factor authentication app for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, supports any TOTP service, similar to Google's Authenticator — LastPass app takes the pain out of two-factor sign-ins — Many will tell you that it's wise to use two-factor authentication to lock down your internet accounts.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Local deals site LivingSocial lays off 280, over 50% of staff, outsources customer services — More bad news for LivingSocial, the beleaguered commerce platform that competes with the likes of Groupon in offering deals on events and services local to its users.
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German court rules Apple violated OpenTV streaming video patents, orders company to stop selling infringing products in Germany — German court rules against Apple in video streaming patent case — A German court has ruled against Apple Inc in a case over video streaming patents …
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Twitter launches on Windows 10 Mobile — Twitter today launched its app on Windows 10 Mobile. The company has effectively updated its universal Windows app to support not just desktops and tablets, but phones as well. You can download the new app now from the Windows Store.
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Sources: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler poised to circulate draft order approving Charter-TWC deal as soon as this week, with clauses ensuring growth of online video — FCC Drafting Order to Approve Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal — Order, expected as soon as this week, will set conditions focusing on promoting online video competition
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