FBI director James Comey: legal issue in Apple case is narrow, intent isn't to break encryption or set loose a master key
We Could Not Look the Survivors in the Eye if We Did Not Follow this Lead — The San Bernardino litigation isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message.
FBI Says Resetting San Bernardino Shooter's Apple ID Password Not a Screwup
Look, it wasn't a f**k-up, ok? — That's the message from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which fired back this weekend at reports suggesting that rogue elements within San Bernardino county had...
In Employee Email, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Commission On Interaction Of Technology And Intelligence Gathering
Early this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email out to employees about the FBI's request to unlock an iPhone with the subject line ‘Thank you for your support’.
State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access: 3.2B people online up from 3B in 2014
State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access — State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access, the second annual study by Facebook …
Cyanogen launches new Mod platform to let 3rd-party apps use Cyanogen APIs for deeper OS integration; Cortana, TrueCaller, Hyperlapse, Skype among Mods debuting
Cyanogen Launches A New MOD Platform For Deeper Integration Of Apps In Android — Not To Be Confused With The CyanogenMod Custom ROM
Facebook announces Telecom Infra Project, an open, collaborative effort to accelerate innovation in telecom networks; Intel, Nokia, several telecoms are members
Facebook Will Open Source Wireless Gear to Forge a 5G World — A year ago, when he appeared onstage at the Mobile World Congress …
Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge: SD card slots, waterproof, “Dual Pixel” 12MP cameras, larger batteries, ship Mar. 11; pre-orders Feb. 23 with free Gear VR in UK, US
Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge: Curvier, faster, micro SD expansion—available March 11 — Specs at a glance: Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge Screen
Sony launches Xperia X and XA new flagship phones with better cameras, teases AI-powered connected Xperia Ear, Eye, Projector, and Agent concept devices
Sony's new Xperia smartphones arrive with a range of odd connected devices in tow — Sony has launched two new smartphones today …
LG's Rolling Bot is a home monitoring ball with 8MP camera, speakers, microphone, IR-blaster to control your TV, and a laser pointer to entertain your pets
LG has a Rolling Bot Robot for Home Monitoring, Cat Torturing — Along with all of LG's other announcements from today surrounding the G5 …
Facebook creates team for exploring social interaction in VR led by Daniel James, Mike Booth; says 20K videos in 360-degree format uploaded since late 2015
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IBM expands relationships with Apple, VMware, GitHub, Bitly, Siemens as well as new Watson APIs and more as it doubles down on its cloud business
IBM Inks VMware, GitHub, Bitly Deals, Expands Apple Swift Use As It Doubles Down On The Cloud — While a large part of the mobile industry swirls around …
Samsung Gear 360 is a lightweight camera for capturing 360-degree photos and videos; accompanying app for S7, S7 Edge stitches and shares content
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Big Bet That Facebook Can Make VR Social
This week, inside Facebook's California headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg spent twenty minutes playing zero-gravity ping pong with the president of Indonesia. — This is how it works at Facebook.
Student-made free chat bot lawyer has successfully appealed $3M in UK parking tickets so far
A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets — Hiring a lawyer for a parking-ticket appeal is not only a headache, but it can also cost more than the ticket...
Finance startups like Tokken step in to aid pot dispensaries unserved by wary banks
As Marijuana Sales Grow, Start-Ups Step In for Wary Banks — When Lamine Zarrad was not at his job as a federal banking regulator in recent months, he was spending a lot of time at Denver's marijuana...
Profile of Neverware, a company helping hundreds of schools across the US resurrect old PCs with CloudReady, its Chromium-based OS
Learning the Alphabet — The Ovid-Elsie school district sits an hour west of Flint, Michigan, the city now notorious for being poisoned by its own penny-pinching administrators.
Convergence of cheap smartphone chips and sensors embedded in everything, and open source AI tools may soon usher the next wave of computing
What's Next in Computing? — The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles.
New Pixel C firmware to solve device-specific issues like touch input and UI performance, but Android as a tablet OS is still unsatisfying
Revisiting The Google Pixel C - Better, But Not There Yet — Last month I published my review of the Pixel C. While I thought it was a very interesting tablet …
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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