Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent”
A Message to Our Customers — The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers.
Court orders Apple to disable 10-tries-and-wipe feature on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone to allow government to crack password through brute force
U.S. wants Apple to help unlock iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter — A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the government unlock …
iPhone 5C lacks Secure Enclave, makes it technically feasible for Apple to comply with court order over San Bernadino shooter
Apple can comply with the FBI court order — Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI's request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen's iPhon...
Kanye West's new album downloaded 500K times on pirate sites, calls into question value of Tidal-only release
Kanye West's ‘Life of Pablo’ already pirated 500,000 times — Kanye West's new album ‘The Life of Pablo’ may have been released as exclusive to Jay-Z's streaming music service Tidal, but it didn't st...
U.S. Department of Defense to upgrade 4 million devices to Windows 10 by February 2017
The U.S. Department of Defense is committing to upgrade roughly four million devices and systems running legacy versions of Windows to Windows 10 by February 2017. — The U.S. Department …
Vulnerability in GNU C library that has left apps and hardware open to attacks since 2008 is patched in new update
Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of apps and devices vulnerable — Since 2008, vulnerability has left apps and hardware open to remote hijacking.
Alphabet's Google Ideas think tank becomes Jigsaw, an incubator that uses technology to solve world issues like terrorism; Jared Cohen named president
Google Ideas becomes Jigsaw — Today we're announcing the expansion of Google Ideas, Google's think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw.
Instagram confirms that it's beginning to roll out long-awaited two-factor authentication
Instagram Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Fight Hackers — Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it's ...
T-Mobile's profit nearly tripled in Q4, to $297M, as it added 2.1M new customers, 1.3M of them postpaid
T-Mobile profit nearly triples as it adds more customers — T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) nearly tripled its profit in the fourth quarter as it gained more than 2 million subscribers drawn …
Apple to invest $25M into 250K square foot development center in Hyderabad India
Apple confirms plans to set up technology development centre in Hyderabad … NEW DELHI: Apple will build its technology development centre outside the US in Hyderabad with an investment of $25 million ...
Leap Motion demos Orion, a motion tracking system and sensor for VR headsets
Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets — When Leap Motion was announced in 2012, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. A little black box that pl...
Khronos Group releases version 1.0 of Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL
Vulkan now official, with 1.0 API release and Nvidia, AMD drivers [Updated] — After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specifica...
1Password launches new subscription plan for families that allows five people to share passwords for $5 per month
1Password launches a family plan that lets five people share passwords — 1Password is one of the best ways to store and manage all of your passwords, and now it wants to start working for entire fam...
MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation
As consumers and businesses begin to focus on what form the next generation of computing may take beyond our current era of the smartphone, startups developing at the cutting edge of these concepts …
Stuxnet was part of larger campaign against Iran's power grid, air defense; Israel modified the program, then launched it unilaterally, claims documentary
U.S. Hacked Into Iran's Critical Civilian Infrastructure For Massive Cyberattack, New Film Claims — A new documentary on “Stuxnet” …
Google launches TensorFlow Serving, an open source project for taking machine learning models into production
Google Makes It Easier To Take Machine Learning Models Into Production — Google launched TensorFlow Serving today, a new open source project that aims to help developers …
Twitter rolls out native GIF support in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy
Twitter has added native support for GIFs, thanks to its partnership with Giphy and Riffsy. Over the “coming weeks,” the company says it will roll out a new GIF button for both its iOS and Android ap...
Google open-sources EarlGrey UI testing framework for iOS apps
Google just open-sourced a tool for testing iOS apps — Google announced today that it has open-sourced EarlGrey, a piece of software that developers can use to more easily build and run user interfa...
Sprout Social raises $42M Series C from Goldman Sachs and New Enterprise Associates
Goldman Sachs Backs Social Media Management Software — Sprout Social, a six-year-old Chicago company specializing in social media management software, has more than doubled its venture backing …
Rackspace reports $32M profit on $523M revenue, up 11% YoY, weak outlook despite company's plan to offer managed services for AWS and Azure
Rackspace: Solid Q4, weak outlook and hopes to ride cloud computing support wave — Rackspace's quarter and outlook were a mixed bag …
Google expands its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries starting in San Francisco and Los Angeles, $35 minimum order
Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries, the latest example …
Confidential internal data: Yahoo.com's daily active users declined 16.5% in 2015, Yahoo Mail down 11.5%, and Yahoo Search down 8.8%
The Death March of Yahoo's Core Products — The number of people visiting Yahoo's three most important products—Yahoo Mail, the Yahoo.com home page and Yahoo Search … Tweets: @jim_edwards Tweets: Jim...
NSA report indicates Internet firms may only be turning over emails from foreign targets, not all data as earlier thought
N.S.A. Gets Less Web Data Than Believed, Report Suggests — WASHINGTON — A newly declassified report by the National Security Agency's inspector general suggests … Tweets: @ridt Tweets: Thomas Rid / ...
Former lead architect of Windows 95 announces Swipe, an open-source document creation platform for mobile
Windows 95 architect launches open-source, media-rich document creation platform for mobile devices … PowerPoint is fine for your business presentation, but getting your message across …
Yello Mobile Raises $30M More At A $4B Valuation From Japan's SBI Holdings
Yello Mobile — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by raising nearly $150 million and acquiring over 80 other app startups — has picked another $30 million in funding.
Google responds to Sen. Franken, says it collects personal information of students using education apps but doesn't use it to target ads
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American Airlines sues Gogo over right to terminate agreement, claiming ViaSat's wifi is faster; Gogo stock falls over 28%
Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed :
Fairchild rejects $2.5B bid by China Resources Microelectronics and Hua Capital over regulatory concerns, still favors ON Semiconductor's offer
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Sources: Spotify had 28M paying subscribers at the end of 2015, set to hit 30M in the next three months
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times :
Shopify's new iOS keyboard, Shopkey, populates with product catalogs, so retailers can easily share product pictures and purchase links
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed :
Microsoft plans to have a certified blockchain marketplace by this spring
Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk :
Google quietly shutters Play for Education, will continue to support existing users until the end-of-life date of their tablets
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Amazon to acquire Indian online payments company Emvantage
Chase Purdy / Quartz :
500 Startups Batch 15 Diversity Stats: 33% Female, 15% Black, 10% Latino
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Tweets: @stephyang10 Tweets: Stephanie Yang / @stephyang10 : More than 400 startups in @500Startups portfolio have at least one female co-founder via @meganrosedickey...
Samsung launches Chromebook 3 with 11.6-inch 1366x768 display, Intel Braswell CPU for $200
James Kendrick / ZDNet :
Fitbit Blaze review: accurate heart tracking and 3.5-day battery charge, but thick bezel design is ugly and software is limited compared to other smartwatches
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal :
Data analytics startup Wavefront raises $11.5M led by Sequoia Capital
Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal :
Fast-Growing Photo App Everalbum, A Chart-Topper On iOS, Comes To Android
except you own it Eric Ravenscraft / Lifehacker : Everalbum Provides Unlimited, Full-Resolution Photo Backup
Nextdoor expands to the Netherlands, its first market outside the US
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune : Tweets: @caseynewton Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : @Techmeme is nextdoor paying for that or are they going dutch
Yahoo reorganizes Yahoo Labs as both its chief scientist and VP of research leave company; the researchers will now work more closely with product teams
Eugene Kim / Business Insider :
A look at stealth ride-sharing startup Juno which is reserving 50% of its founding shares for drivers, started by Viber cofounder and former CEO, Talmon Marco
Brian Solomon / Forbes : Tweets: @forbestech Tweets: @forbestech : Juno is paying some Uber drivers $25 per week to join and drive their normal routes while keeping the Juno app on http://www.forbes....
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