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House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group report says encryption backdoors pose a security threat, siding with tech experts — Today, the House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo says Super Mario Run was downloaded 40M+ times in its first 4 days of availability, breaking iOS App Store records — Nintendo has confirmed what we all knew was likely - Super Mario Run got a lot of downloads at launch. The company says that the app was downloaded …
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| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
EU's top court rules “general and indiscriminate retention” of electronic communications is illegal, possibly opening UK's Snoopers Charter to legal challenges — Indiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Twitter CTO Adam Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland to leave company; McFarland to join Greylock Partners as a general partner — Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company's CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said today he was leaving the company.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AT&T announces Call Protect, a new service for automated blocking of spam calls at network level; feature only available on postpaid iOS and Android devices — Today, AT&T introduced a new service for automated blocking of fraud or spam calls. Dubbed AT&T Call Protect … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sling TV website shows details for AirTV Player, a new Android-powered device with an interface that combines Sling TV with over-the-air broadcasts and Netflix — Putting streaming and antenna TV channels all in the same guide — Dish's Sling TV website has (perhaps prematurely) unveiled a new set-top box, the AirTV Player.| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10 — Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).| Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed: |
Uber updates app to let users select friend's contact as destination, which then pings the contact for their GPS location; app will not track friend after ping — Feeling lazy af? Uber will ping the friends you're meeting to find out where they are. — Uber is announcing two new features today … | Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Verizon “supercookie” partner Turn settles with FTC over privacy violations charges that it continued tracking consumers even after they opted out of tracking — The ad tech firm was found continuing to track users even after they opted-out. — Turn, which operates …
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| Steven Overly / Washington Post: |
White House report: AI will lead to long-term growth in productivity and efficiency, but will likely lead to millions of job losses in low-skill sectors — The growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology will likely lead to millions of lost jobs, especially among less-educated workers …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry posts $301M Q3 revenue, below expected $332M; declining smartphone unit made up 23% of company's revenue as software and services made up 55% — Albeit a small profit, the stock jumped by more than 2 percent. — BlackBerry's big bet on software and services is making progress — albeit slowly.
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Marketwire, Reuters, BlackBerry, TechEye, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Motley Fool, TheStreet.com, PCWorld, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, MobileSyrup.com, and Liliputing. Tweets: @jonerlichman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Live Audio launches with select publishers and authors including the BBC, LBC, and Harper Collins, will open up to more next year — Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new Live Audio feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year.
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