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Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile — Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Behind the development of Oculus Rift, now shipping with a simplified interface and a refined setup process — The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR — Palmer Luckey has never used an Oculus Rift. — That's what the founder of Oculus keeps telling himself …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Bug in iOS 9.3 crashes some iPhones and iPads when opening links in Safari and other apps, affects latest as well as older devices — Some users reporting iPhone crashes on iOS 9.3 when tapping links in Safari and other apps [Update] — Update: Although details around the problem …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora cofounder Tim Westergren becomes the new CEO as part of management makeover — Pandora has appointed cofounder Tim Westergren its new CEO as part of a broader management makeover, the company announced today, — Stating that it “remains 100% committed to growth strategy,” …
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| Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post: |
Clinton email scandal started with her desire to keep using impossible to secure personal Blackberry, transmitting classified docs over insecure comms channels — How Clinton's email scandal took root — Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Rift review: great design, good VR games, promising future game catalog, but expensive, lack of motion controls is a big weakness — Oculus Rift review — For a long time, the hopes and dreams of many virtual reality fans could be summed up with two words: Oculus Rift.
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @caseynewton, @tim_stevens and @plante
| Grace Huang / Bloomberg Business: |
Japan's NTT Data to buy Dell's IT services business for $3.055B — Japan's NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion — Deal is largest by NTT Data Corp., which is expanding overseas — NTT doesn't give details of when it will acquire Dell units — Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Bitcoin rival Ethereum climbed 1000% in 3 months, crossing $1B in value at times, and attracts interest from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and IBM — Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin's — A new virtual gold rush is underway.
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| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
European Commission launches public consultation on “neighboring rights” for publishers, a “Google tax” for snippets — “Google tax” on snippets under serious consideration by European Commission — The German Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda is leading the fight against a Google tax.
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Digital Single Market, Fortune, 9to5Google, Techdirt and The Next Web
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
A look at how Netflix handles major premieres, VPN usage, local competition, and more after expansion to 130 new countries — Netflix's Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World — Late into the night on St. Patrick's Day, Netflix hosted a makeshift “war room” at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters.| Stephen Lovely / AllFlicks: |
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Silicon Valley Business … and Business Insider. Tweets: @ericjackson and @sambeal. See also Mediagazer
| Robert M. Lee / Wired: |
US should focus on governments behind hack attacks because focusing on individuals sets a dangerous precedent, putting those hacking on behalf of the US at risk — Feds Set a Risky Precedent by Indicting 7 Iranian Hackers — This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) … | Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Transmission BitTorrent client released for Windows — The popular BitTorrent client Transmission, formerly only available for Mac OS X and Linux distributions, has been released as a binary for Windows officially. — The new release is not advertised yet on the project's website …
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TorrentFreak and The Next Web
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