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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple planning three new iPhones for this fall: a high-end near-6.5" OLED model, updated iPhone X, and cheaper phone with Face ID, edge-to-edge screen — Company aims to boost sales after iPhone X missed expectations — All models to have facial recognition, edge-to-edge screens
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple is launching AC Wellness, a group of medical clinics for its employees and their families, starting in California this spring — - The company is advertising for doctors, health coaches, and “designers” to create a program to promote healthy behavior.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Apple's iOS Security Guide confirms 2016 reports that Google Cloud Platform is one of the third-party services Apple uses to store data for its iCloud services — - The collaboration is around storing iCloud users' data. There's no indication Apple is also relying on Google for additional computing work.
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Inquirer, BetaNews, Ars Technica, cloudpro.co.uk, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, The Next Web, CNET, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, The Verge, Tech Times, PCWorld, ZDNet, CRN, On MSFT, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Seeking Alpha, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, and The Register
Tweets: @privacymatters and @bdsams
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Craig Wright, who once claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, sued for $10B by estate of deceased business partner Dave Kleiman, for allegedly stealing $5B in bitcoin — Dave Kleiman's estate wants ten billion dollars in bitcoin, allegedly taken by fraud — Craig Wright, who once claimed …
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Bloomberg, WizSec, Motherboard, CoinDesk, Fortune, Finance Magnates, International Business Times, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph.com News, The Next Web, PC Magazine, PYMNTS.com, NewsBTC, and reddit. Tweets: @proffaustus
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Coinbase to comply with court order and send IRS details of ~13,000 users who moved $20K+ through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015 — Within 21 days — Coinbase told its customers on Friday that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers' data to the IRS within 21 days.
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Coinbase, CoinDesk, Slashdot, CNET, Digital Trends, Bitcoinist.com, Bitsonline, and Fortune
Tweets: @aantonop and @jamesgrickards
| Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
A look at tech real estate in the Bay Area: Google has 19.9M sq. ft. of office space for 34K+ workers, 38% more than Apple's 14.4M sq. ft. for 25K+ people — Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been adding office space more rapidly than any other tech company in the Bay Area.| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Cellebrite, popular with governments and law enforcement for hacking into devices, is telling potential clients that it can unlock iOS 11 devices — In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, Firstpost, The Hacker News, TechSpot, International Business Times, Gizmodo, CNET, BGR, Newser, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Slate, Windows Central, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @snowden, @josephfcox, and @iblametom
| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Vero, an ad-free social networking app that first launched in 2015, becomes the top app on the App Store in US as frustration with Instagram's algorithm grows — Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work.
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BBC, Vero, Refinery29, Fast Company, Slate, and Forbes
Tweets: @pasql, @phmai, @ischafer, and @caseynewton
| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Alphabet correspondence with SEC details how Page treats each business separately and Google's Pichai can make some financial decisions without Page's approval — - Just-published correspondence between Alphabet and the SEC details how often CEO Larry Page receives the financial information … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple now faces ~60 class action lawsuits over iPhone slowdowns, up from ~30 in mid-January; consolidation of suits likely next month — Apple's legal battle against accusations that it intentionally slows down older iPhones to incentivize customers to upgrade to newer models will likely … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube Live gets automatic English captions, live chat replays, and location tagging — YouTube today announced a trio of new features for its YouTube Live streaming service. — Arguably the most interesting of the new features is automatic captions. YouTube has offered captioning functionality since 2006.| Sead Fadilpaši / CryptoNews: |
Hacker who stole 37K ETH, then worth ~$7M, during CoinDash's ICO in July by changing wallet address on site, has inexplicably returned ~30K ETH, now worth ~$26M — Israel-based Coindash, a social trading platform, recently announced via its blog that 20,000 Ethereum tokens had been transferred …
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CoinDash Blog, CoinDesk, BleepingComputer.com, news.bitcoin.com, ZDNet, and Coingeek
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