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US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper complains that Edward Snowden sped up spread of encryption by seven years — Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years — THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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| Los Angeles Times: |
LA judge compels woman to unlock iPhone with fingerprint, sparking 5th amendment debate — The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed? — In a Glendale case, the FBI wants the fingerprint of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan so her iPhone can be unlocked.| Anna Wiener / n+1: |
A first-person narrative on the allure and anxiety of working at a Silicon Valley startup — Uncanny Valley — I would say more, but I signed an NDA. — MORALE IS DOWN. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Samsung Is Working On a Standalone Virtual Reality Headset … Samsung's plans for virtual reality go beyond the company's current Gear VR headset: The company is working on a standalone virtual reality (VR) headset that will incorporate positional tracking similar to the technologies …
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Engadget, The Verge, Road to VR, ZDNet, UploadVR, Fone Arena, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Quartz, PhoneDog.com, Android Authority, SlashGear, VG247, Gizmodo, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, GamesIndustry.biz and Pocketnow. Tweets: @benbajarin. Thanks:@jank0
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Uber settles with National Federation of the Blind, will pay $225K over 3 years, notify drivers they must provide transport to customers with service animals — Uber agrees to $225,000 settlement in lawsuit alleging discrimination against the blind — Uber has agreed to pay the National Federation …
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Uber Global, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, Geek News Central and Digital Trends. Tweets: @verge
| Sam Knight / Guardian: |
How Uber built its business in London from 5,000 to 1.7M active riders in three years — How Uber conquered London — To understand how the $60bn company is taking over the world, you need to stop thinking about cars — very week in London, 30,000 people download Uber to their phones and order a car for the first time.
Tweets: @russellbuckley
| Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg: |
Study finds Silicon Valley engineering interns earn $81,600 per year compared with national wage index of $46,481.52 — Do You Earn Less Than a Silicon Valley Intern? — The vast majority of interns in a recent survey said they did not attempt to negotiate their salary.| Bloomberg: |
A history of Marissa Mayer's tenure at Yahoo, and why her efforts haven't been enough to turn the company around — Yahoo's $8 Billion Black Hole — These moves haven't mollified investors. In March, Starboard Value, which once got the board of Darden Restaurants replaced by …
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Tech Insider and New York Magazine. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @benthompson, @stevesi, @hunterwalk, @alexcartaz, @editorialiste, @dannysullivan, @bradstone, @ericjackson and @willoremus
| John Paul Titlow / Fast Company: |
How Pandora plans to reinvent itself with on-demand streaming, ticket-selling, and live streaming concerts — Inside Pandora's Plan To Reinvent Itself—And Beat Back Apple And Spotify — In 2016, personalized Internet radio alone won't cut it. Here's how Pandora hopes to maneuver its way to profitability.| Sundar Pichai / Official Google Blog: |
Sundar Pichai lays out priorities for Google in his first Founders' Letter, with machine learning and AI playing a key role — This year's Founders' Letter — Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter to our stockholders updating them with some of our recent highlights and sharing our vision for the future.
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat and Petri
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @guy_levin, @qhardy and @whatthebit
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Triby review: kitchen bluetooth speaker with Alexa integration and an e-ink screen is neat, flawed, and hard to recommend at $199 — Triby Review: Alexa on your fridge — The elevator pitch for the Triby is actually a kitchen pitch. 1. Take everything you like about the Amazon Echo speaker …
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CNET, Tech Times, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Wareable, CNBC, The Gadgeteer, USA Today, The Next Web and Tech Times. Tweets: @backlon
| Julian Sanchez / Just Security: |
Feinstein-Burr anti-encryption bill is so broad that it could ban modern web browsers — Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser — Last week, I criticized the confused rhetorical framework that the Feinstein-Burr encryption backdoor proposal tries to impose on the ongoing Crypto Wars 2.0 debate.Sponsor Posts
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